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Do you inform visitors that you have smart devices when they visit your home?

Lisa Miles
Reading this really interesting article on the BBC website where Rick Osterloh from Google suggests that visitors should have the right to know that smart devices (Alexa, Google Assistant, Smart Security Cameras etc) are present and in use before entering your home.

So this got me thinking... I do have Alexa enabled speakers but I've never thought to inform any visitors. Do we need to though? Has it got to the point where so many of us have these types of devices in our homes that it's a given that they're there? What happens if someone objects?

What do you think?

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    My own Alexa does pick up the occasional 'misheard' wake command.... During the last series of the Great British Sewing Bee one of the competitors was called Alexis so of course every time his name was mentioned during the show, my own Alexa livened up. I've also noticed that some short words with a 'ksss' sound in them can also wake her up. She has an audible beep though to let you know when she's awoken and is listening. Well she does on my Sonos speaker anyway. 


    Strangely enough she doesn't react to the current Amazon advert (Morning ritual) with the blind woman who repeatedly uses the 'Alexa' wake command. I wondered if the post-production team had altered the audio on the advert somehow to prevent it from triggering all the Alexa's within earshot?


    Or maybe it's just coincidence... ?
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    My own Alexa does pick up the occasional 'misheard' wake command.... During the last series of the Great British Sewing Bee one of the competitors was called Alexis so of course every time his name was mentioned during the show, my own Alexa livened up. I've also noticed that some short words with a 'ksss' sound in them can also wake her up. She has an audible beep though to let you know when she's awoken and is listening. Well she does on my Sonos speaker anyway. 


    Strangely enough she doesn't react to the current Amazon advert (Morning ritual) with the blind woman who repeatedly uses the 'Alexa' wake command. I wondered if the post-production team had altered the audio on the advert somehow to prevent it from triggering all the Alexa's within earshot?


    Or maybe it's just coincidence... ?
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