I got Alexa cheap (i.e. free)

by Jack , Monday, December 18, 2017, 11:06 (3030 days ago) @ Jay
edited by Jack, Monday, December 18, 2017, 11:13

My brother bought it for my parents, who ended up having no use for it and gave it to me. But it's cheap anyway. You might as well get it.

Now I'm trying to figure out uses for it, since it doesn't hook up to anything electronic in my house.

The only thing I found so far, which is definitely useful, is that it plays Sirius/XM radio so I don't have to use the clunky portable device from Sirius/XM. That alone was worth the (no) investment. Configuring it to do it took maybe 30 seconds.

In light of that, I'm going to check out Sonos on Joe (LBbeachrat)'s suggestion below. Then it would be very very worth it.

Can you do things like order a pizza? Yes - but not from any restaurant. It has to be one hooked up with one of the "skills". So for example, you can order from Pizza Hut and Domino's but apparently not Papa John's.

Of course you can order from Amazon, and I do have an Amazon Prime account, though I haven't tried that yet.

Would love to hear great stuff from other people that they can do with it.