Friday

[susandennis]

When I tell Alexa, Treadmill, she starts the timer on the clock on the wall in front of the treadmill. Yesterday, she started a timer but not on the clock. Weird. After my treadilling, I tested it out with some short timers and they went to the clock just fine. So I figured glitch. Fixed.

When I tell Alexa good night, she turns off all the lights in the house and fires up the ceiling fan. Last night I told her good night and she blinked and nothing. We repeated this a couple of times. But, when I rebooted her she just could not connect. hmmmm. The Echo dot in the bathroom also wasn't connected. The living room Echo was up and operational. hmmm I checked the mesh network and the hallway hub was on the fritz. Fuck. I unplugged and replugged it and nothing. Crap. It's the Google Wifi system and it's one of those things that works perfectly so no need to understand or troubleshoot or do anything. So there was no guidance how to fix. Crap.

Finally, I went to bed and as I was going to sleep I was, in my mind, digging the old Eero's out of storage and setting them up instead.

This morning I woke up and Google had come to its senses on its own. All was fine and good and operational. Whew. I now suspect that hub had been out for a while. Oh well. Fixed now.

So, since I don't have to redo my entire network today, that frees up some time. hahahaha

I have the next installment of my crochet instructions that just arrived via email. The baseball game is at 5. I'm thinking Chinese for lunch. I'm ready to re-try that Mongolian Beef that was too spicy last time. One more shot. This time with VERY MILD in the instructions. And fingers crossed.

Comments

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

My eero is coming up on 3 years in August. Makes me nervous. I guess they have them at Home Depot and Lowes and the rest now so I should be able to replace same day. But I need to test that theory with a run as if. See how it works.

[susandennis]

Yeah. I am sooooo glad I hung on to those puppies. It enabled me to get to sleep last night! Backup... hmmmm I just did a little g2 and discovered that if I needed/wanted a mesh router today — either eero or google, my only option would be to drive down near the airport and they only have 1 in stock. Yikes that's kind of not comforting.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I just did a search in Home Depot and both eero and Google are available. Are they not in yours?

[susandennis]

ok, i just searched home depot seriously and they have 2 google routers in the store. zero eeros in the store.

2 is way better than none but does not make me feel mesh router safe

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

We have glitches in our Google routines and they usually manage to fix themselves by the next time we use them

[becomingkate.livejournal.com]

We have a mirror in the bathroom with lights attached to the Alexa. Sometimes I will tell it to turn the lights on or off and it says "Okay" and then...does nothing. LOL Technology...it tries.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Alexa, and also thinking about Line Of Duty which I've just binged: apparently there's an Easter egg in Alexa which you'll find if you ask "Alexa, who is H?"

[susandennis]

cool, after i watch it, i'll ask!

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

Your capacity for setting up technology, and finding fixes for it, never ceases to amaze me. I will probably do okay in a zombie apocalypse, but I am a disaster at tech.