Matter 1.4.2 punta su stabilità, sicurezza e integrazione
https://gomoot.com/matter-1-4-2-punta-su-stabilita-sicurezza-e-integrazione/
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L'obiettivo è trasformare le interazioni vocali in opportunità per promuovere prodotti, sfruttando le conversazioni per suggerire gli articoli più adatti al contesto.
Servizio o nuova "invadente" tecnica di marketing?
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Does anyone know if Philips #hue lamps and bulbs can be paired with an Ikea #tradfri hub?
There’s lots of stuff online about pairing Tradfri bulbs with Hue hubs, but not the other way around.
Also, how is the Tradfri integration with #alexa and #homeAssistant? I’m thinking of replacing my Hue hub with a Tradfri one due to problem with Tradfri lamps on Hue hub.
Reddit posts with others having the same problem here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tradfri/comments/1kzw3nh/tradfriphilips_hue_hardware_incompatibility/
And here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tradfri/s/3mOJATMxtM
Seems to have been going on for a couple of years, now. I bought my initial batch of Tradfri GU10s to go with my existing Hue kit about 6 years ago, and they’ve only just started failing (as have the second hand Hue lamps I bought before that).
I read a forum post that suggested the overnight automatic firmware update from the Hue hub may be the problem, but disabling this hasn’t improved matters at all.
I’m desperate for a solution, as this has effectively broken my smart lighting setup. I can’t afford to replace all the Tradfri bulbs with Hue, but am considering ditching the Hue hub and the last few Hue bulbs I have (unless they can be connected to a Tradfri hub?)
Bought a load of new #ikea #tradfri #zigbee bulbs yesterday. As with the replacement Tradfri GU10 I bought last month, they pair and work immediately with my Philips #Hue Hub, and are picked up in #Alexa and #homeAssistant via their Hue integrations.
But after a few hours they become unresponsive. A power cycle sorts it immediately, but you have to do it every day.
Older Tradfri bulbs continue to work fine, but there’s some bug in the newer ones (bought in roughly the last 12mos) with Hue hubs
#Amazon CEO wants to put #ads in your #Alexa+ conversations | TechCrunch
#privacy #advertising
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/amazon-ceo-wants-to-put-ads-in-your-alexa-conversations/
I've got a couple of 1st gen Amazon #Alexa #Echo devices performing excessive #DNS lookups again. None of the other Amazon devices in the house exhibit the same behaviour when using #BBCsounds
They're constantly (every 1.5 seconds or so) looking up "as-hls-uk-live.akamaized.net". The A record has a TTL of 20s, and appears to be part of the BBC's live streaming radio infrastructure.
This accounts for ~400 lookups every ten minutes against my pihole, ~90% of which receive cached responses.
There is an automation on my network that keeps turning on my Philips Hue lights in the evening. I’ve checked the Hue app, Alexa and Homeassistant and have turned any automations that might do it on those off, but it’s still happens. 
#homeautomation #HomeAssistant #alexa #PhilipsHue
If you've been looking for a free as in freedom home assistant, consider looking into #HomeAssistant, a home automation program that puts local control and privacy first: https://u.fsf.org/481 #Alexa #Google #FreeSoftware
Head east to Croatia and Istria https://www.byteseu.com/1143011/ #alexa #Croatia #hotels #Italy #Lifestyle #Resorts #Travel #TravelSecrets
@ernie, hate to cold @ you, but, are you following this #sengLED smart light bulb fiasco? No one seems to be writing about it. Not the tech publications that promote sengled... no one. It's been days and people can't get their lightbulbs to work, esp if they were dimmed at night when they stopped working.
After a bunch of complaints to their main seller, #Amazon, Amazon finally released a statement to people that have them linked to one of their appliances. I suspect Amazon just wants to stop fielding calls about them, although they are still selling products that can't work now or be setup. #GoogleHome #iot #Alexa #homeAutomation #google #home
https://www.reddit.com/r/smarthome/comments/1lezw4w/anyone_have_issues_with_sengled_lightbulbs_not
/r/SengledUS is covering it, also https://www.reddit.com/r/SengledUS
Dedicato ai ribelli da tastiera 
meme pubblicato sul gruuppo: @internet
#Bezos è uno dei volti più visibili e potenti dell’oligarchia che gravita attorno a #Trump. Lo ha apertamente sostenuto, mettendo a disposizione il Washington Post, e si è presentato sorridente e in prima fila al giuramento del nuovo presidente, fianco a fianco con altri miliardari come lui.
Ogni volta che acquistate su #Amazon, ogni volta che attivate un abbonamento #Prime, che usate #Twitch o #Alexa, ricordatevi cosa e chi state finanziando:
https://noblogo.org/filippodb/una-vita-senza-amazon-perche-e-ora-di-dire-basta
Alexa Skills - get custom slot names using Flask-Ask
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/06/alexa-skills-get-custom-slot-names-using-flask-ask/
Amazon encourages developers to use Flask-Ask - the handy Python library for working with Alexa. Sadly, the project has been abandoned. They no longer take pull requests, you can't raise bugs against it, and the documentation is incomplete.
So this is how I solved an annoying problem - how to get the name of a custom slot.
Here's the code, with a fuller explanation afterwards.
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from flask import Flask, render_template, requestfrom flask_ask import Ask, statement, question, sessionapp = Flask(__name__)ask = Ask(app, '/')@ask.intent("YourIntentName")def your_intent_name(): content = request.get_json() name = content['request']['intent']['slots']['YOUR_SLOT_NAME']['resolutions']['resolutionsPerAuthority'][0]['values'][0]['value']['name']Yeuch! What's going on?
Alexa lets us define custom slot names - these can be associated with any spoken text. For example, I might want the slot name "car" to be sent whether the user says "car" or "automobile" or "vehicle" or any other synonym.
In my case, I want to send my API the ID Code of a hospital.
If the user says "John Radcliff" or "Oxford" or "John Radcliff Hospital" - then my API should receive the ID RTH08. It can then use that ID in a separate API call.
Here's the JSON that Alexa sends our API (I've truncated it for ease of reading).
{ "request": { "type": "IntentRequest", "requestId": "amzn1.echo-api.request.1234", "timestamp": "2019-06-17T06:54:52Z", "locale": "en-GB", "intent": { "name": "CarPark", "confirmationStatus": "NONE", "slots": { "hospital": { "name": "hospital", "value": "John radcliff", "resolutions": { "resolutionsPerAuthority": [ { "authority": "amzn1.er-authority.echo-sdk.amzn1.ask.skill.1234.hospitals", "status": { "code": "ER_SUCCESS_MATCH" }, "values": [ { "value": { "name": "RTH08", "id": "abc123" } } ] } ] }, } } } }}A bit verbose, but easy enough to parse.
I've moaned before about Alexa skill development - but it is getting worse. As you can see from the above screenshot, the development website's contrast isn't great - which makes building a skill physically painful.
Add to that the outdated tutorials, the weird terminology, the multiple sites to use, broken links, and abandoned libraries... It's hard to feel enthusiastic about building more skills.
Amazon have gone down the classic route of paying developers to build for their platform. But I don't think that's enough.
The Alexa team need to work on the developer experience. A GUI like NODE-RED could be used to help build skills in one place. Why is it so complicated to deploy and test skills? Where are the official libraries which "just work"?
I honestly believe that one of the things holding back voice assistants from their full potential is the poor developer experience.
Headline: #Amazon annihilates #Alexa #privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading
Snippet: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing:
Source: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen
#LOL... "Alexa, what do you know about us?"
#OMG.... What I discovered when I asked speaker to tell me everything it had heard.
#HMMM... For years, #Alexa has been our on-call vet, DJ, teacher, parent, therapist and whipping boy. What secrets would the data reveal?In September 2016, a new presence appears in our house, squatting on the kitchen counter between the kettle and the coffee machine.....
Read this and weep.
A published article on the surveillance by Amazon devices, pretending to be reflective and vaguely self-critical, but really showing no sign of any self-awareness.
Switch the thing off, my friend, and all is well.
