wkearney99
Senior Member
The latency for Alexa commands to round trip from the device, to the cloud, to Homeseer, back to the house is, on average, under 3 seconds. No kidding. "Alexa, turn on Office ceiling" just now was as instantaneous as I'd expect from anything on site. The only time it's not fluidly instantaneous is if the command was garbled. As in, poorly pronounced, while moving quickly between areas (like while hurrying down stairs and the command being picked up by three different devices) or ambient noise overwhelming it. The professional-grade stove hood fan bugs the heck out of the kitchen unit's mic, such that the living room unit often picks up the commands instead. But that's due to poor fan selection on my part (larger is not better, it turns out) along with an open floor plan and wood flooring.
All this hand-wringing about devices and clouds.... always coming from folks that aren't actually using it. As if their doom-saying could somehow be passed off as knowledgeable advice. It's not. But let's note how many are already using all kinds of other things that have the ability to track activities. Phones, web browsers, search engines, etc.
I too would use a local voice service and avoid cloud services, if effective options existed. Thus far they haven't materialized.
All this hand-wringing about devices and clouds.... always coming from folks that aren't actually using it. As if their doom-saying could somehow be passed off as knowledgeable advice. It's not. But let's note how many are already using all kinds of other things that have the ability to track activities. Phones, web browsers, search engines, etc.
I too would use a local voice service and avoid cloud services, if effective options existed. Thus far they haven't materialized.