Echo, Alexa and I am sure there are others.

jd50ae

Does anyone use these "monitoring" devices. Ain't they kind of scary?
There have already been reports of parrots and kids ordering stuff.

0patience

We have the Amazon Echo.
It controls most our lights in our house.
As for ordering, not sure how you can. It can add stuff to the card, but in order to order, you have to confirm it. And we have a PIN on our account that has to be given before the order can be placed.
I suppose anything is possible, but the way ours is set up, it has to confirm before the order is placed.
So I am a bit suspicious of the reports that it ordered from a parrot.

Although every once in a while, it will reply to the TV and seems to talk to itself, which is kind of unnerving. LOL!

jd50ae

The darn things make me nervous.

Crisius

My Dad has the Echo, built on a timed power link. So it only on for so long, then power is completely cut to it.

Sleddog46

Don't you ever wonder who could be listening in on you? Anymore I don't trust anything when it comes to stuff like that and our government. But in the same vein they could monitor you from your computer or cell phone. I know people who put electrical tape across the camera on they're laptops, etc.

webmost

We have that dot. All's we have ordered is pretzels, just to try it out: "Alexa, get us Snyder's sourdough pretzels." Two days later, a box of pretzels. But for the most part, it's just something to laugh at. See, we also have a grandson named Alex. This leads to : "Alex is coming Sunday." "Sorry, I cannot order chocolate sundaes." The TV sets it off all the time. "I can't answer that." Or music. Or some useless jabber. I don't know what sideways search engine it uses, Bing or some such, but whatever it is, it doesn't find answers worth a crap. Doesn't listen worth a crap either. "Alexis, what time do the Eagles play?" "The Steelers play the Bengals Sunday at 4pm" 

thehilk

I have the echo dot, it mainly controls my hue lights, and my control4 home automation is an added skill as well. I turned off the ordering, and my wife mainly uses it to find out the weather. I like to use the “simon says” skill, basically it repeats whatever you say, my 2 1/2 year old lives when Alexa tells him to do something 

Martel

webmost said:

We have that dot. All's we have ordered is pretzels, just to try it out: "Alexa, get us Snyder's sourdough pretzels." Two days later, a box of pretzels. But for the most part, it's just something to laugh at. See, we also have a grandson named Alex. This leads to : "Alex is coming Sunday." "Sorry, I cannot order chocolate sundaes." The TV sets it off all the time. "I can't answer that." Or music. Or some useless jabber. I don't know what sideways search engine it uses, Bing or some such, but whatever it is, it doesn't find answers worth a crap. Doesn't listen worth a crap either. "Alexis, what time do the Eagles play?" "The Steelers play the Bengals Sunday at 4pm" 

Thank you for supporting the local economy in the municipality my wife works for!  Snyder's rocks.

Heavysetrapier

I already posted this somewhere but it definitely fits here.