''She turns my musings and requests into data and uploads them to the cloud, possibly into the maw of Amazon algorithms. But she’s useful. And I am weak.''

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/21/amazon-echo-alexa-home-robot-privacy-cloud

Did they reference ours?

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-wants-use-sensors-make-device-notifications-smarter/

hmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCLQecMM_tg

''This setup allows me to make requests through my Amazon Echo (Alexa) to query domoticz about what switches and sensors are available, turn switches on and off and get the temperature from sensors by name and interact with the thermostat. The video shows a pretty typical interaction. The latency is lower than I was expecting, which is nice. Each request goes from the Echo, to Amazon which makes a web service call to my server which does further web service / JSON calls to the domoticz server and then back. A lot of hops but response time is sub second''

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