OK,, do any of you guys remember years ago, those damned demonic toys called furbies ? Just start talking or making strange noised for no reason, well this aint about them but it is about a talking machine,, yes Alexa !
Now I was given an Alexa echo thing by one of the grand daughters, OK , it plays music, and sometimes the news when I ask it the right way, so that's cool.
NOW, here is the parallel between the furbie and alexa. For no reason the Alexa will turn on, at random times, no one asking it to play in the middle of the night. For example late one night, I am awoken by voices, soft quiet voices. I can't understand, what they are saying but male voices, low and threating . And yes I slowly got out of bed with a, .45 cal frying pan ( remember I lost all my guns in a boating accident ) and flash light. And trying to remember all my training ease around the corner in the kitchen. And what do I find ? Alexa, playing a old time radio show of Dragnet! I unplugged it, and still did a sweep of the house every thing as it should be. ANd it will make strange sounds like, ding dong, or a chirp, or a buzzing sound, and one day for only a couple seconds, it sounded like an old numbers station, you hams know of what I speak.
SO the question remains,,,,, WHY THE FREEKIN thing turns on all by it self. I am the only one here so it is not someone else playing games. Some one any one, please ,,, before I unplug the damn thing and put in the garage .
Now I was given an Alexa echo thing by one of the grand daughters, OK , it plays music, and sometimes the news when I ask it the right way, so that's cool.
NOW, here is the parallel between the furbie and alexa. For no reason the Alexa will turn on, at random times, no one asking it to play in the middle of the night. For example late one night, I am awoken by voices, soft quiet voices. I can't understand, what they are saying but male voices, low and threating . And yes I slowly got out of bed with a, .45 cal frying pan ( remember I lost all my guns in a boating accident ) and flash light. And trying to remember all my training ease around the corner in the kitchen. And what do I find ? Alexa, playing a old time radio show of Dragnet! I unplugged it, and still did a sweep of the house every thing as it should be. ANd it will make strange sounds like, ding dong, or a chirp, or a buzzing sound, and one day for only a couple seconds, it sounded like an old numbers station, you hams know of what I speak.
SO the question remains,,,,, WHY THE FREEKIN thing turns on all by it self. I am the only one here so it is not someone else playing games. Some one any one, please ,,, before I unplug the damn thing and put in the garage .
