re: What skills do you use most on your Amazon Echo?

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I mean it's kind of cool that the house turns blue when it rains.

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when mine did that the other day, the wife turned to me with this weary "WTF" look on her face. she just said "why?". i said "rain" and she shot death darts at me. i couldn't help but laugh.


but to answer your question, its very useful when we're sitting at the kitchen island working on a project to yell 'alexa turn on concentrate in kitchen' or 'alexa kitchen 100%' and instantly all the lights turn blue-white or get really bright so we can see what we're doing without having to stop and chase down a phone.

when walking through the house and the lights are blazing its nice to say 'alexa hall 50%' and boom.

yes the lights are on a schedule but we all know thats too rigid many times.

also, if you don't use alexa, how do you ever change the light colors? surely you don't go looking for your phone each time you want to change the colors?