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For turning on lights and starting and stopping a Heatpump, voice assistants are awesome.

Turning on and off lights and setting timers is what most people use Alexa for. And a certain number use it for music too.

Most people don’t use any of the “assistant” or “ai” features these smart speakers have.

I’ve found it difficult to find other uses. But these ones are great.

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This is exactly right. It’s like “hey Google” or “hey Siri” for setting a reminder on your phone, but it’s for your house to dim all the lights or whatever.

Lots of technology used to do a very limited number of things, but convenient things nonetheless.

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For turning on lights and starting and stopping a Heatpump, voice assistants are awesome.

Oh, leave me alone…

A smart home should know by itself when to turn the lights on for me, and without me needing to tell it every single time.

I want voice assistant when it is able to fetch me another beer (and then it has to go either to the fridge or down in the basement)

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