GG1
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*****Trigger warning******
Attention Audiophiles and Electronics Engineers - the following contains graphic depictions of electronic audio equipment abuse, scenes of horrific soldering, explicit displays of complete lack of knowledge and the gratuitous selection of passive electronic components. You have been warned.
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Some time ago I could ignore the itch under my tin foil hat no longer and consigned my two Sonos One Amazon Alexa "smart" speakers to the back of the cupboard. Much that I enjoyed the company of Alexa (and often rose to the challenge of making her say "that's not nice!") it was time that she stopped recording me and harvesting my data.
(Interesting side note - if you use Alexa you can make a Data Subject Access Request to Amazon and they'll send you a disk including recordings of you saying everything you've ever asked her or, er, called her).
Recently, having felt the need for a simple Bluetooth speaker in the workshop, I retrieved one of them from exile, dusted it off and tried to work out if this was a function - sadly not, the latest Sonos One can be used with bluetooth but not my 2017 units.
Anyone with half a brain would have sold one or both speakers and bought a fairly good quality "dumb" bluetooth speaker with the proceeds. I, on the other hand did not, electing instead to butcher one of them in an attempt to silence Alexa and make it a Bluetooth only speaker.
The plan was to buy an inexpensive Bluetooth audio receiver and simply plumb that into the appropriate end of Alexa's amplifier, a 15 minute job tops, surely?
Attention Audiophiles and Electronics Engineers - the following contains graphic depictions of electronic audio equipment abuse, scenes of horrific soldering, explicit displays of complete lack of knowledge and the gratuitous selection of passive electronic components. You have been warned.
*******
Some time ago I could ignore the itch under my tin foil hat no longer and consigned my two Sonos One Amazon Alexa "smart" speakers to the back of the cupboard. Much that I enjoyed the company of Alexa (and often rose to the challenge of making her say "that's not nice!") it was time that she stopped recording me and harvesting my data.
(Interesting side note - if you use Alexa you can make a Data Subject Access Request to Amazon and they'll send you a disk including recordings of you saying everything you've ever asked her or, er, called her).
Recently, having felt the need for a simple Bluetooth speaker in the workshop, I retrieved one of them from exile, dusted it off and tried to work out if this was a function - sadly not, the latest Sonos One can be used with bluetooth but not my 2017 units.
Anyone with half a brain would have sold one or both speakers and bought a fairly good quality "dumb" bluetooth speaker with the proceeds. I, on the other hand did not, electing instead to butcher one of them in an attempt to silence Alexa and make it a Bluetooth only speaker.
The plan was to buy an inexpensive Bluetooth audio receiver and simply plumb that into the appropriate end of Alexa's amplifier, a 15 minute job tops, surely?