Yacht to Dot. With 85 minutes, we'll demo show. For everyone who's simply dotting about Alexa. Hey guys, Robin here.
Today we are going to look at a couple of things that are built in. The first is about the Echo Show 10 and its motion. When you set up the Echo Show, it will ask you about whether you want to have it swiveling or not, and certain other behaviours. And you can go into the settings of that device on the device itself, or through the app on your phone, and you can alter that behaviour as well, including, for example, where you want it to rest.
So as it swivels around and follows people, then either using the camera or when it hears where someone's voice is coming from, it tries to swivel around into that direction, you can choose where you want the screen to go back to, as like its resting position, for when, you know, it hasn't been activated for a while. Now, sometimes it can be a bit frustrating with its motion, or it's not in the right direction, or maybe you don't want it to be swivelling, for example, at the moment ours is just fixed in one position. Then, and I'm not going to do it up here, because I'm not, well, I'm not downstairs where the Echo Show 10 is, you would say, A-Lady, motion on, or A-Lady, motion off. And if you do that, then it will never move again.
So that's an easy one to do. If you've got the camera slider closed, then if you say motion on, she will say that she needs to have the camera slider open to be able to follow people. And you'll get a similar message if, when you say, A-Lady, follow on or follow off, or start following and stop following, that's what you can say as well. And that means that motion isn't turned off, so sometimes she might swivel, but she doesn't want you to follow, you don't want her to follow you with the camera.
And so it will still swivel when it hears people talking in a certain direction, and then go back to the resting position, but it won't follow people using the camera as they move around the kitchen doing the recipe that they're following, for example. So there's a bit of a difference. One is turning off all motion, and the other one is about tracking you with the camera. So yeah, if you've got the camera off and you say, stop following me, then she will say that you need to turn the camera on.
And then the last one that works unless you've said motion off is A-Lady, move left, or A-Lady, move right. So if for whatever reason you're, I don't know, in a part of the kitchen where you talk to her and you say, you know, what's the weather today or something, and she doesn't swivel to you quite right, or maybe she's at a slightly different angle and you want her to move slightly more towards you, then just say, A-Lady, move left, move left, whatever, and then she'll be facing you, so that's another thing you can say. But again, obviously you have to have motion on for that. Okay, now something we can demo up here in the office.
This is a slight variation on the saying, what's my appointments? And I think I might have covered this before, but it's so useful I want to cover it again, and that's saying, A-Lady, what am I doing today? And what she will give you then are all your appointments plus all your reminders. And I think that's really powerful because you might have things that you are set to be reminded about during the day.
And one of them, for example, might be to, I don't know, do the washing up before guests come or something, and you might be out and about at that point when that reminder goes off. Oh, someone's at the door. We've actually got coffee morning. Fundraising for guide dogs, and that's the guide dog you can hear.
Barking its head off. So pleased to see people. It's Hugo. So yeah, you might be out and about when that reminder goes off and you thought, oh, blimey, I meant to be home to do the washing up before people come.
So let's do it. I don't know if you can hear that. There's going to be loads of people coming. All right.
So what am I doing today? I found five things. Repeating event. Log week activity.
Today at 9 o'clock. Repeating event. Ten round summary of my key activities this month. Today at 9.30.
And repeating event. The Echo Show prep call. Today at 1,700 hours. Would you like to hear the last two?
Yes. Take Hugo out every day at 6 p.m. And take Hugo out every day at 8.30 p.m. Okay, so those last two were actually reminders, not appointments in my calendar.
And the reason why I have those two in the evening is because during the day, I have no trouble at all remembering when to take Hugo out for a walk or for a week. But on an evening, for whatever reason, after that last one at 5 or half past 4 or something, which I do remember, I then tend to forget until last thing at night, which is obviously terrible. So a very long time ago, I set those two appointments at 6 and a half 8. So yeah, there you go.
I think that's really, really useful. I use it all the time anyway. Hey lady, what am I doing today? Or hey lady, what am I doing on date X?
Cool. One final quickie, which is in the past now. So it's too late if you didn't get a message about this. It was in the Friday newsletter from Amazon in time for the 1st of April.
And that's to say to the A lady, good morning. So I think you probably had to say it yesterday. And this is the message that we got here in the UK. Oh, good morning.
Morning, gorgeous. It's Rylan. And guess what? I'm here to say, I'm the hot new voice of Alexa today.
Oh, yes. I'm in the cloud. I'm feeling proud. Better turn it up, because I'm going to get loud.
April Fool. I'll be back tomorrow. So yeah, I don't know who Rylan is. I'm so sorry.
But yeah, I don't know if you've had an April Fool-y type thing yesterday where you were, but I just wanted to flag that that's what this one was. I'm recording this on April Fool's Day, as you might have twigged. Cool. Freecast.fm