topic Re: Does sony tv support alexa or google home? in Android TV

Does sony tv support alexa or google home?

crashuk1 — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:40:25 GMT

I want to buy 2 tvs that can support Alex or goggle home, I would like to know if Sony Android tvs support are supported as this will influence my purchase?

Re: Does sony tv support alexa or google home?

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:59:12 GMT

Hi there

You do know that the CIA, NSA, GCHQ etc can use these 'always-on' listening devices to spy on you in your own home? The Samsung F8000 was hacked by the CIA and GCHQ under a program called "weeping angel". It would certainly not be difficult for them to adapt and implement this into Amazon Echo/Google Home

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/07/wikileaks-publishes-biggest-ever-leak-of-secret-cia-documents-hacking-surveillance

Either way, see these two threads on this forum:

https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/android-tv/amazon-dot-echo-integration/m-p/2266595

https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/android-tv/google-home-android-tv/m-p/2284411

Cheers

Re: Does sony tv support alexa or google home?

Jecht_Sin — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:52:23 GMT

Aww.. So that's why the batteries didn't last two months after I bought the television. I want the British and USA governments paying for all the batteries I wasted! We should do a class action!

More seriously, don't they have anything better to do with the tax payers money, like.. I don't know.. catching the real terrorists before they attack? Especially since 9 out of 10 they know their names already.

Anyway, back on topic.. Which Google Home are we talking about, in here? The one that gets activated when we press the mic button? Or the mobile app to support Googlecast? What's called the main screen in Android TV (the one with all the useless featured apps, which honestly I believe the EU antitrust should force Google to remove)? At the beginning I thought that was the Google Home.

Re: Does sony tv support alexa or google home?

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 13:43:48 GMT

@Jecht_Sin wrote:

More seriously, don't they have anything better to do with the tax payers money, like.. I don't know.. catching the real terrorists before they attack? Especially since 9 out of 10 they know their names already.

Apparently they have nothing better to do

Although whoever controls the data/information has power. Truth be told, im sure that there are 'acceptable losses' in regards to the 'war on terror' in small 'single man' attacks. As everytime something happens, we seem to loose a little more of our 'freedoms' under the guise of preventing a terrorist attack. Look how quick the Tories were (via Amber Rudd) to push their agenda on 'end-to-end' encrypted apps such as Whatsapp after the London issue a couple of weeks back.

Re: Does sony tv support alexa or google home?

Jecht_Sin — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 08:53:22 GMT

Indeed. Exactly my point, my friend, exactly my point..