Another gadget- but this one is really clever!

To prove to my detractors that I can talk about more than Safefill and Solar panels!! Now, I'm not sure whether to put this in this section as it may not save you money but it uses so little electricity and also enables you to access more than 40,000,000 tracks of music so no more taking CDs on holiday, fumbling around with the radio in the car etc- now, the world of popular music is at my finger tips- or rather my voice. I took it to the caravan this morning while I did a few jobs and played what I wanted and the amps never moved!

Having discovered it almost by accident while surfing the Amazon website, and learning about it on YouTube, I decided to buy one and to say I'm impressed with the technology would be an understatement. I am of course talking about the Echo Dot by Amazon.

No doubt some of you have heard of it and some of you will own one so this is not directed at you but for those who have heard of it but don't know what it does or those who have never heard of it, - listen up.

Firstly, and most importantly, to use echo dot you need data on your phone or on a mobile myfi device. I don't have much data per month on my phone so at the moment, my preferred method is to take my EE myfi unit which does the job nicely. Echo dot basically is a voice activated device which, set up correctly will serve your every desire......, well, not every one but will certainly make life easier. Having got your echo dot to recognise and lock on to a wifi source the fun starts. Firstly, there are, if you sign up to Amazon Music,(£3.99 a month) 40 million tracks to go at. It will tell you the news, give you reminders in human voice, and so many other things through the app that you load on to your phone. On long journeys I only have to say "Alexa, read 'The Green Mile' " and off she will go reading an audible book(as long as it's in your library). She will remember where she got to last time as well!  "Alexa, what's the weather like in London?"  "Alexa, what's the time" etc etc and just for example. All done via BT to the car speakers. Get bored with that and it's "Alexa, play tracks from Celina Dion" and like magic it's playing. Alexa, as you may have guessed is the wake up word for it- I nearly said "her" then. You can ask it to tell you a joke even and so many other things I won't cover - you'll have to discover it for yourselves . Although to me, it's invaluable in the car, in the caravan it's just as good. You can get it to pair with Bluetooth Speakers just by asking it to do so- what a bit of kit! Again, it's all about making life more pleasant and using milliamperes to do it. Hope I haven't upset anyone - I probably have😂😂😂