Anyone have an Alexa device?

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The internet connection is provided by your cable / sat company. You may not have access to the internet but they are connected. Those movies you are streaming are not sitting on your local cable companies server, they are being streamed from the internet. If you have a door to streaming services, they have a door to you device, really just that simple. It is hard enough to protect our computers, without the added trouble from a Smart TV. JM2C
 
Seriously, if privacy is everyone’s reason to not want one, just realize that you allready don’t have any secure privacy. Everyone has a phone now, most have smart tv’s and computers. If the govt or even greedy companies want to know what you do there are allready ways for them. I dont think this thing is needed and don’t want one, but our privacy is allready gone so that shouldn’t be a major concern.
 
Got tired of paying $200 a month for cable, so now we just pay $60 a month for Satellite for wi-fi at the house... Between digital channels (when we don't feel like fooling with streaming) and streaming services, we still can watch pretty much anything we want and have internet, but for just $60 a month. I was hoping the Alexa tool may make that even easier for the wife, but I'm not so sure the tech is really there for it yet, between all these different services.

As Brent mentioned above, any expectation of privacy is pretty much gone if you want to take advantage of these high tech solutions. If they want to know, they'll know through a myriad of ways. I'm no fan of making it easy, but I've really got nothing much to hide either, so don't really care that much about it.
 
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I went with google home for my setup. My reason being, I already have an android phone, so Google already has all of my info anyways. They won't get anything more than they could already get through the phone that stays in my pocket. I wasn't too fond of a company like Amazon getting access to it though.
 
I went with google home for my setup. My reason being, I already have an android phone, so Google already has all of my info anyways. They won't get anything more than they could already get through the phone that stays in my pocket. I wasn't too fond of a company like Amazon getting access to it though.

Google is the largest vacuum of personal information on the net even if you don't have a droid, Amazon would be the least of my worries.
 
Basically, what I'd like to do...

1) Set the thermostat remotely
2) Tell it to play a show and have it do so (or music, etc.)
3) Have it make a phone call by voice
4) Tell it to display a particular ranch camera
5) Ask it about the weather, forecast, my calendar, etc.
6) Have it order from local restaurants, or order from the local Publix, etc.

Probably a few other things as well. It can do most of this, I think, but it's still a bit cumbersome in HOW it does all of this, so not quite there yet.
 

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