On 11/30/2023 7:51 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
On Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 9:50:05 AM UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
On Siri, there is an update that stops you having to say hey first, and its >> very annoying, as you are more likely to say siri before or as part of
another word that triggers it. That is why Alexa is so much better, not only >> is it unlikely that you will say that word, but you can change it.
Computer, Amazon, and for some reason ziggy are allowed on my newest one.
This of course is why tvs use a button as if you do have a lady else where >> it would wake them up and so they do not use the word, just a button. Brian >> --
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On 23 Nov 2023 at 15:58:32 GMT, "Harry Bloomfield Esq"
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On 23/11/2023 15:25, Steve Jones wrote:
When we ask "Alex channel 4 on TV" tv gets the command, it says Tuning, >>>>> and we end up back on the channel we started at after maybe 10s.
No help, but to say...
My LG set simply swaps to the chosen channel, and stays put. When giving >>>> Alexa commands, she doesn't normally silence the TV, but after asking
her to change the channel, she muted the sound, on mentioning her name. >>>
There must be a special Yorkshire version of Siri. Up near Skipton with
SWMBO's aunt the last couple of days. Aunt's iPhone was off and Siri (AFA >>> she
knew), off. Aunt mentions how independent the folks of Yourshire are, and >>> up
pipes Siri to mention she's found three articles on Independence for
Yorkshire.
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Britain sitting behind the protectionist wall of the Customs Union is
doing absolutely nothing for the oppressed coffee bean growers of the
developing world. How ironic then that the cappuccino-swilling hordes of >>> Hove voted in large numbers to keep some of the world's poorest people and >>> traders locked out of our markets.
Tom Bewick - Labour councillor in Brighton and Hove
For my TV to get Alexa to be able to start the TV in stand bye you have to enable Network quick start up option in the network settings, however this increases the TVs stand bye power. I suspect what this means is that the network is still active in
stand bye.
Steve
Ethernet chips draw about 1 watt (core logic for MAC, say).
There are some fixed packet patterns, for WOL (Wake-on-LAN).
If a packet comes in, the byte pattern meets the standard of
detection implemented in the chip, the chip asserts PME and
the computer supervisory logic converts PME into a request
to rise to a higher power state.
This means that the best you can do, is about one watt more
power, to be listening on the LAN for a Magic Packet. Best case,
the CPU does not have to draw any power, while it waits
to be awakened by the PME (Power Management Event) mechanism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN # Magic Packet will get an honourable mention here
Getting another Ethernet device on your subnet, to wake the
TV, should not be a tough technical question. On some
GbE network switch boxes, the interfaces "power down"
when not being used, and in the past, this caused problems
for the transmission of a Magic Packet to a subtending port.
It's another issue entirely, to have a Magic Packet,
travel all the way from Tokyo to London. The article above
makes a reference to traversal of a router.
The hardware can sit in any power state it wants... if it
has an evil mission to carry out. You can use a Kill-O-Watt
to study some of these too-clever appliances, and discover
when they're not sleeping.
In the early days of WakeOnLAN, a network card came with
a small adapter cable, and you plugged the adapter cable,
between the PCI card and the motherboard. That was because
a PME-like signal, was not included in the hardware quite yet.
But the motherboard did have a header with gold plated pins
for it, and the network card came with a cute cable, to connect
up the WOL function. If you did not desire waking on Magic Packets,
you simply didn't install the cute cable. On modern computers,
the PME signal is on the edge of the plugin network card, so
no cute cable is provided or needed, and the signal to make
the function work is already present. It still has to be configured.
An Intel NIC with the right driver, makes demonstrating the
configuration of the thing, a bit easier to understand.
[Picture]
https://i.postimg.cc/brBScZHR/Wake-On-LAN.gif
Paul
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