Rarely - maybe one or two times a month - haven't seen any pattern.

I've got a DOT in my office which has more ambient noise than the great room where an ECHO is located - it is ECHO that sometimes speaks for no apparent reason.

But then members of my family often speak for no apparent reason.

Frederick

Did they do the demo or let you play with some commands?

You ask Alexa to tell you the weather, halfway through you say "Alexa stop" Alexa stops and the DVR pauses. It went downhill from there.

When I first started playing with it, that was the first thing on my bug list.

Yup. Getting the silent treatment already.. LOL

I wish mine worked that well. I have to go through some very specific dish command like "Alexa find comedies" to then get transport commands to work. Then the other thing I realized, when she does work, if I say "Alexa skip forward 3 minutes" the process takes longer than if I grab the remote and hit skip 6 times.

HA! 😂

Here's how this plays out. In 2018, they start releasing lights, thermostats, etc. - either under their own brand or a "Works with Echo" certification.

Along side this, they release an app, just like all the other smart home platform providers.

By 2019/20 they've accomplished what so many have tried and failed - their full featured smart home hub has penetrated tens of millions of homes.

However, it is not entirely DIY. There are 3 tiers of implementation: lite, which is DIY; medium, which uses Amazon smart home services; and full, which uses the CEDIA channel.

Over the next decade, the lite and Amazon services implementations encroach more and more on the CEDIA level. But, full blown implementations will still require pros until AI finally reaches the point that systems can self configure. That's 20 years out.