Hi @andy_swing. I was just about to buy an Echo and a Dot, but reading this I might wait until the Google Home becomes available here in the UK.
Looks like you’ve tested both, mind if I ask you a few questions?
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You said Echo got confused over similar devices. Was it the voice recognition of different items, or the bridge / control of the items?
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What bridges have you tested for each? I noticed the following:
a. unityfire/alexa-ha (not sure if this can interface with OpenHAB
b. armzilla/amazon-echo-ha-bridge (recommended on Aaron Tinsley’s blog for OpenHAB)
c. built-in Echo configuration at http://yourip:8080/configurator.html (a comment on the above blog)
d. bwssytems/ha-bridge that you mentioned for Google Play - does it work for things that aren’t lights? -
How have you found the performance of each? I’m talking about the delay between speaking the command and seeing the lights change. I’m guessing it depends most on the OpenHAB hardware, but maybe there are some difference?
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Sorry for this basic question, I read loads of Amazon Q&A but the quality of the answers were poor: will the Dot support anything that the Echo full version supports, in terms of OpenHAB (or any other integration)?
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Other than not getting device names confused, what else in particular is better about the Google Home (I’m interested in how it relates to OpenHAB, as well as in general!)
Sorry for the barrage of questions!
Cheers
Mat