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362 people found this helpful
Great range, very handy, wish it had a home base mount still
By kemilie on Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2016
As other reviewers I wish that the remote still came with the handy magnetic base like the first ones did. It does, at least, come with the battery still. Because I know the remote will disappear to a never been seen again realm without a home I have decided to swallow my irritation it doesn't come with a dock and buy one to use with it. From my research it looks like this is the best bet - TotalMount Fire TV Remote Holder. The Fire TV remote appears to be the exact dimensions of the Echo remote, so I'm hopeful this will be a great solution even though it irks me to spend another $10 on a solution for something that used to be included! **Update: I ordered the TotalMount Fire TV Remote holder and it works great with Echo Remote.**We have a few Alexa units in the house and aside from the original one that came with a remote I haven't felt the need to buy another remote. Unless you blast your music it is normally fairly simple to engage with Alexa (at least how we have our rooms setup) even without the remote. However, my 3 and 4 year old have recently become quite the Alexa fanboys - checking the time, asking for jokes, listening to their playlists we've set up.... one of them can articulate clearly and Alexa responds, and the other can not. Before frustration got to a crazy level I decided a remote for the unit they normally talk to was the key.They (and I) love that you don't have to say Alexa *just* right to get a response with the remote. You simply hold down the microphone button and start talking (no wake word needed). Happy campers now. The range is great, the Alexa unit connected with this remote is in the middle of the house upstairs and no problems with using the remote anywhere upstairs (about 2000 square), as well as from two floors down in the crawl space - tested simply to see if it would work, and it did! We use Alexa on a daily basis and the remote is a great tool to go with it.
Top critical review
4 people found this helpful
Terribly
By Rikki Rocktrap on Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2019
This remote functioned terribly. My wife and I still ended up yelling at the dots although we had the voice remote. It still did not understand plain English. I'm a native Californian and have an excellent command of the language and so does my wife. Alexa misunderstood my wife to the point that she was asking me "what do I have to say to simply turn off a light?" Alexa would respond to "turn off Mimi's light" by saying, "there are several devices named Mimi's light, which one do you want?" Over and over and over. Once and a while, after it asked "which one do you want", it would respond if you said " Mimi's light" again.Customer services solution was to use improper vinacular by saying "turn on THE Mimi's light". In other words, you adapt to Alexa as it won't adapt to you. Speak incorrectly so it understands SOMETIMES. I sent everything back. 3 dots, 1 firetv stick, and their voice remote. I've since gone back to apples HomeKit which is 100% accurate and comes native in iOS. I use one of my appletvs as the home hub, my appletv's Siri remotes to communicate as well as my iPad Pro and my iPhone's. Not one communication error since I went back to HomeKit. I just say, "hey Siri" to wake it up, give it a command, and it responds either "done" or "on it" after my command EVERY TIME. Not once in a while whilst performing intermittently at best LIKE THE ALEXA ENABLED DEVICES.
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