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Airgetlam
Airgetlam
Mar 16, 2017 8:51 PM UTC

Alexa being incorporated in Amazon's iOS app

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but it appears that Amazon is incorporating the Alexa (Echo) voice control inside of the Amazon app on iOS.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/16/amazon-iphone-ipad-alexa-amazon-app/

This should make things interesting when Sonos' integration is completed. Yet one more way to access your music, without needing to be in the same room as your Echo device.
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    Nezmo
    Avid Contributor I
    Mar 16, 2017 10:19 PM UTC
    Yeah, I got all excited until I remembered I have Dots covering the whole house already, lol.

    I wonder how this might work when you are away from your network though ...
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    Airgetlam
    AirgetlamAuthor
    Mar 16, 2017 10:48 PM UTC
    Exactly the same thought I was having. Can I entertain my cat while not being at home? 🙂
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    Bruce
    MikeV
    MikeV
    Mar 17, 2017 12:00 PM UTC
    While you're at the grocery store, you get an alert from one of your wireless security cameras... "Alexa, play 'Somebody's watching me' in the living room"...

    I know I would freak out if I was alone somewhere and that song just started playing!
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    delurk
    Lyricist III
    Oct 5, 2017 5:16 PM UTC
    I am just now experimenting with this functionality. It seems to work, even outside the home network. Sitting in backyard, out of wifi range, using Amazon app on iPhone (cellular) to ask Alexa to play music through house mounted speakers. Pretty cool... Sonos should promote this!
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