Noel (@noelportugal) spent a lot of time during his holidays geeking out with his latest toy, Amazon Echo. Check out his initial review and his lights hack.
For a guy whose name means Christmas, seems it was a logical leap to use Alexa to control his Christmas tree lights too.
Let’s take a minute to shame Noel for taking portrait video. Good, moving on, oddly, I found out about this from a Wired UK article about Facebook’s acquisition of Wit.ai, an interesting nugget in its own right.
If you’re interested, check out Noel’s code on GitHub. Amazon is rolling out another batch of Echos to those who signed up back when the device was announced in November.
How do I know this? I just accepted my invitation and bought my very own Echo.
With all the connected home announcements coming out of CES 2015, I’m hoping to connect Alexa to some of the IoT gadgets in my home. Stretch goal for sure, given all the different ecosystems, but maybe this is finally the year that IoT pushes over the adoption hump.
Fingers crossed. The comments you must find.
