The Amazon assistant can now power up your robot vacuum cleaner or turn off the smart lights on its own. Yes, you heard right.
Amazon has announced In September last year, it will soon release an update that will allow Alexa to act on the behaviors of devices connected to your home – turning off a smart light bulb in a room long after you’ve gone to bed, e.g. Hunches normally works by allowing Alexa to suggest only solutions to these detected problems. But now, Alexa users can choose to allow the smart assistant to just do things themselves.
Wisdom is enabled by default, although Alexa will go through how to disable the feature after you explain your first Hunch. To access your Hunches preferences, open the Alexa app and select “more” from the menu at the bottom of the screen. Select settings, scroll down and click joy.
This was especially interesting for me, the owner of a connected coffee machine. Definitely, I thought, this has the potential to do terribly if Alexa were dishonest and started making my coffee the next morning in the middle of the night – just slowly depleting my supply of coffee grounds. .
But starting today, the function is limited to smart locks, lights, sockets and thermostats. However, if you have another device connected, the spokesperson said that users “can start receiving Hunches from Alexa based on how you normally use connected devices.”
For now, it seems, my coffee is safe. So help me if this robot is slowly starting to move away from what’s left of my health.
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