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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by pram on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:02PM (#35732145)
They're all complete crap. I use Google Home to ONLY turn my lights on or off and it gets it like 60% of the time. Sometimes it accepts the command and it just doesn't even work and says something went wrong. Pressing the light button in the app is 100% consistent. Incredible.
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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by scottyah on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:27PM (#35732519)
I've been superstitiously switching between "turn the lights off" and "turn off the lights" (also with music). It seems like every few weeks or days it prefers one over the other.
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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by nicky0 on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:23AM (#35738094)
I say to Siri “close the blinds” eyes and it replied “I don’t see anything like that in your home”. I say again five seconds later “close the blinds” and it closes the blinds.
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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by ductionist on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:10AM (#35740865)
I have the same problem with my “blinds” - I started calling them “shades” instead (not the usual term, in my vernacular at least) and have had much better luck. YMMV!
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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by mikelward on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:26AM (#35738116)
I think it works if the Google Home and the lights are configured in the same room, otherwise it goes crazy and does the whole house.
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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by NathanOsullivan on Friday April 28, 2023 @05:23AM (#35739163)
It's not a good reason but I believe this happens because voice command has to go to Google server, Google talk to light vendor API, light vendor communicates with your device, and lights go off only if all of this succeeds.

Meanwhile, button in vendor app will not use internet so lot less can go wrong.

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