• billy
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    111 months ago

    Curious, what is it about HomePod that makes it better than Alexa? I use google, not Alexa, so I have no frame of reference.

    • LazaroFilm
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      111 months ago

      Mostly how terrible Amazon is when it comes to pumping ads at you. Alexa has the terrible habit of finishing some answers with “…by the way, did you know you can order straight from Amazon by saying buy more tape, try it now” or some incredibly annoying things like that. HomePod doesn’t do that. It also works with my phone seamlessly since I have an iPhone, transferring music from phone to the HomePod with just a tap is fun. The HomeKit part is more restrictive but I have a Pi Zero v1 with HomeBridge installed and all my smart WiFi devices are now HomeKit compatible.

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        11 months ago

        Google will sometimes do the same but along the lines of “by the way, you can ask what else Google home can do”.

        I bought an atom echo but haven’t set it up yet. Just want to set it up to use Janet as a wake word.

        • LazaroFilm
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          111 months ago

          One of the tricks I read is to put the echo in kids mode and it won’t throw ads at your face but you’ll lose some functions.