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Shopping at this point is limited to items you ordered in the past that were prime eligible. You can look for other things to buy but you will end up having to use the echo app to do so on the iPhone. If you do have orders you placed in the past that were prime eligible though it is a true 21st century experience very cool! You tell echo you want to buy so and so and it says you ordered this on such a date and do you want to buy it again. You say yes and its done. If you have push notifications set up with your creditcard and bank in a second or two after you say yes you get the notification your card was charged. Its awesome! Don On 7/2/2015 1:34 AM, Amy Ruel wrote: Yes, and that’s what I tried to register. Still no go, though. *From:*viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Brent Harding *Sent:* Wednesday, July 01, 2015 10:33 PM *To:* viphone@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone I remember hearing that shopping may be limited to things you've ordered on Amazon before. - Original Message - *From:*Amy Ruell mailto:aru...@comcast.net *To:*viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com *Sent:*Wednesday, July 01, 2015 6:56 PM *Subject:*Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone Hello all, Surprisingly, I set up my echo without any difficulty. However, I still do not know how to get downcast to play using the echo and also don't know how to get a shopping purchase completed. Any help would be greatly Appreciated. Also, to use the echo with At Bat, do I open the At Bat app first? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 4:39 PM, May mcdonald@gmail.com mailto:mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: hahaha, you are very welcome. Sometimes it just takes asking a question to point out the *duh* things. I always bop myself on the head when I come across those. May and LD Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca http://www.canadianlynx.ca On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com mailto:brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hey May, What is it that Homer Simpson says, doh because that fixed it. Can’t believe I did not think of that as when you pair your iPhone with the Echo sure enough your iPhone volume must go to zero by default, just got it paired and playing something from Downcast on the Echo. Thanks so much and do pass along my thanks to your friend for pointing out the blatantly obvious. Ok, now this really changes things since the iPhone and VO does work with the Echo. Time to explore more. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:04 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com mailto:mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Hey Bryan. Check your audio ducking to make sure it's not on? Also, my friend said he just needed to turn up the volume on either the IPhone or the echo the first time he did it. Good luck. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com mailto:brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com mailto:motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com
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Yes, I am aware of that. I'm surprised it didn't work, is the item I put in the something I've ordered consistently for the past several years. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:33 PM, Brent Harding br...@hostany.net wrote: I remember hearing that shopping may be limited to things you've ordered on Amazon before. - Original Message - From: Amy Ruell To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 6:56 PM Subject: Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone Hello all, Surprisingly, I set up my echo without any difficulty. However, I still do not know how to get downcast to play using the echo and also don't know how to get a shopping purchase completed. Any help would be greatly Appreciated. Also, to use the echo with At Bat, do I open the At Bat app first? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 4:39 PM, May mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: hahaha, you are very welcome. Sometimes it just takes asking a question to point out the *duh* things. I always bop myself on the head when I come across those. May and LD Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hey May, What is it that Homer Simpson says, doh because that fixed it. Can’t believe I did not think of that as when you pair your iPhone with the Echo sure enough your iPhone volume must go to zero by default, just got it paired and playing something from Downcast on the Echo. Thanks so much and do pass along my thanks to your friend for pointing out the blatantly obvious. Ok, now this really changes things since the iPhone and VO does work with the Echo. Time to explore more. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:04 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Hey Bryan. Check your audio ducking to make sure it's not on? Also, my friend said he just needed to turn up the volume on either the IPhone or the echo the first time he did it. Good luck. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sentthem an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take
Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone
The Public now can buy the Echo without an invitation. -Original Message- From: Larry McCreary Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 11:04 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone I never received an invitation or a response to my invitation request. I would have purchased one. at that price. on On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Larry after asking for an invitation to buy one did you eventually receive the opportunity to buy one, and place the order? It is kind of a two step process asking for an invite then receiving the invite after a few weeks and placing your order when you receive the email invite. I think do to the debacle of the Fire phone Amazon did not want to manufacture a lot of the Echos in case the demand was limited. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate
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Hi Amy, have you had any luck removing any items from your shopping list or to do list? To get At Bat to play you need to connect your iPhone via bluetooth to the echo than launch at bat on the iPhone the same way you would get an at bat game to play on any bluetooth speaker, works very good. I even was listening to a Blind Mice Mart movie over the echo last night but than ran in to streaming issues but think the issues were all Apple Music related, and not Echo related. After two days with the Echo I am very satisfied with it. On Jul 2, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Amy Ruell aru...@comcast.net wrote: Yes, I am aware of that. I'm surprised it didn't work, is the item I put in the something I've ordered consistently for the past several years. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:33 PM, Brent Harding br...@hostany.net mailto:br...@hostany.net wrote: I remember hearing that shopping may be limited to things you've ordered on Amazon before. - Original Message - From: Amy Ruell mailto:aru...@comcast.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 6:56 PM Subject: Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone Hello all, Surprisingly, I set up my echo without any difficulty. However, I still do not know how to get downcast to play using the echo and also don't know how to get a shopping purchase completed. Any help would be greatly Appreciated. Also, to use the echo with At Bat, do I open the At Bat app first? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 4:39 PM, May mcdonald@gmail.com mailto:mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: hahaha, you are very welcome. Sometimes it just takes asking a question to point out the *duh* things. I always bop myself on the head when I come across those. May and LD Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca http://www.canadianlynx.ca/ On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com mailto:brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hey May, What is it that Homer Simpson says, doh because that fixed it. Can’t believe I did not think of that as when you pair your iPhone with the Echo sure enough your iPhone volume must go to zero by default, just got it paired and playing something from Downcast on the Echo. Thanks so much and do pass along my thanks to your friend for pointing out the blatantly obvious. Ok, now this really changes things since the iPhone and VO does work with the Echo. Time to explore more. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:04 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com mailto:mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Hey Bryan. Check your audio ducking to make sure it's not on? Also, my friend said he just needed to turn up the volume on either the IPhone or the echo the first time he did it. Good luck. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com mailto:brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com mailto:motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com mailto:brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com mailto:mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18
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I never received an invitation or a response to my invitation request. I would have purchased one. at that price. on On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Larry after asking for an invitation to buy one did you eventually receive the opportunity to buy one, and place the order? It is kind of a two step process asking for an invite then receiving the invite after a few weeks and placing your order when you receive the email invite. I think do to the debacle of the Fire phone Amazon did not want to manufacture a lot of the Echos in case the demand was limited. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at
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What I meant is the echo does not use Apple airplay service. It relies on Bluetooth. That's all. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hi Mary, Not sure what you mean does not work with air play as I just got it all working and tried using Siri with the new Apple Music I said play Bon Jovi, and sure enough it all worked and is playing over the Echo pretty cool. Now I do not think you can say to Echo Alexxa play Bon Jovi on Apple Music. I think you need to use the iPhone to get it started, but then you can use the verbal commands or remote to skip songs and change volume and such. Actually I am so impressed with the remote as I think it is the first remote I have owned for anything where you do not need to point it at the device or even be in the same room, very cool remote which I have been using to speak in to with a loud air conditioner on in the room. Now that I have learned VO does work over the Echo completely different user experience. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: The echo at this time definitely does not work with airplay. I would not hold my breath waiting for it to do so, as that is probably not what Amazon has in mind. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this
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Larry after I asked for an invitation via the amazon website it took like a month or a little longer before I received the opportunity to order it I placed my order on May 27 and just received it yesterday. So as long as you are sure you asked for the invite to buy one it should come eventually then you got about a month wait after that. On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: I never received an invitation or a response to my invitation request. I would have purchased one. at that price. on On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Larry after asking for an invitation to buy one did you eventually receive the opportunity to buy one, and place the order? It is kind of a two step process asking for an invite then receiving the invite after a few weeks and placing your order when you receive the email invite. I think do to the debacle of the Fire phone Amazon did not want to manufacture a lot of the Echos in case the demand was limited. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit
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Hey Mary will have to play around with it later disconnecting wise, no big deal as long as I know the volume goes to zero, right now I am listening to a MLB At Bat game over the echo, would be nice if eventually an tell Echo to launch MLB At Bat on the iPhone but not sure that will ever happen Just happy to see you can play an audio like Downcast or Apple Music on the Echo as I do not really use Prime Music as I find their offerings very limited. you c On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:10 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Now I am curious. When you disconnected the iPhone from Echo by turning Bluetooth off, did your volume go crazy again? I did it by telling Alexa to disconnect, and my volume went down, both the regular volume and voiceover volume. Maybe disconnecting Bluetooth or turning it off, on the iPhone, would work better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Sorry Mary just saw this one. All I did was say Alexxa pair, then the Echo says after a few seconds in pair mode turn the volume up on your iPhone as it defaults to zero go to settings on your iPhone and bluetooth and select Echo. To unfair just turn bluetooth off, no need to use the app for this. Good luck and let me know if you have any other questions. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, How did you pair your echo with your iPhone? Did you just turn Bluetooth on on the iPhone then tell Alexa to pair? Or did you have to use the app or the Mac or whatever? Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the
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Call Amazon again. They lost my initial request. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All
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Hi Amy I ran in to trouble connecting to my wifi on the mac as the Amazon website kept causing VO to get stuck in a busy busy, but I was able to connect to my wifi network using the amazon echo app, so try the app On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Amy Ruell aru...@comcast.net wrote: Hello all, I just got my echo and have very little time to get set up. Did you just go to the Amazon website to get started? Is that how you got instructions on how to use and configure the echo? Thanks very much. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hi Mary, Not sure what you mean does not work with air play as I just got it all working and tried using Siri with the new Apple Music I said play Bon Jovi, and sure enough it all worked and is playing over the Echo pretty cool. Now I do not think you can say to Echo Alexxa play Bon Jovi on Apple Music. I think you need to use the iPhone to get it started, but then you can use the verbal commands or remote to skip songs and change volume and such. Actually I am so impressed with the remote as I think it is the first remote I have owned for anything where you do not need to point it at the device or even be in the same room, very cool remote which I have been using to speak in to with a loud air conditioner on in the room. Now that I have learned VO does work over the Echo completely different user experience. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: The echo at this time definitely does not work with airplay. I would not hold my breath waiting for it to do so, as that is probably not what Amazon has in mind. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns
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What you can do to get your IPhone and echo to play together through bluetooth is tell your echo to pair. This will connect it via bluetooth. It will play everything through the echo including voiceover. According to my friend it won't do things like whats app through it. When you want to disconnect from your phone tell your echo to disconnect. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To
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Hey Bryan. Check your audio ducking to make sure it's not on? Also, my friend said he just needed to turn up the volume on either the IPhone or the echo the first time he did it. Good luck. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, --
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When you disconnect your iPhone from the echo, be prepared for voiceover fun. It goes to zero on the phone. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hey May, What is it that Homer Simpson says, doh because that fixed it. Can’t believe I did not think of that as when you pair your iPhone with the Echo sure enough your iPhone volume must go to zero by default, just got it paired and playing something from Downcast on the Echo. Thanks so much and do pass along my thanks to your friend for pointing out the blatantly obvious. Ok, now this really changes things since the iPhone and VO does work with the Echo. Time to explore more. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:04 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Hey Bryan. Check your audio ducking to make sure it's not on? Also, my friend said he just needed to turn up the volume on either the IPhone or the echo the first time he did it. Good luck. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon
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I requested an invitation in April so I suppose I won’t receive an invitation to order. Request acknowledgment indicated several weeks. On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Larry after I asked for an invitation via the amazon website it took like a month or a little longer before I received the opportunity to order it I placed my order on May 27 and just received it yesterday. So as long as you are sure you asked for the invite to buy one it should come eventually then you got about a month wait after that. On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: I never received an invitation or a response to my invitation request. I would have purchased one. at that price. on On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Larry after asking for an invitation to buy one did you eventually receive the opportunity to buy one, and place the order? It is kind of a two step process asking for an invite then receiving the invite after a few weeks and placing your order when you receive the email invite. I think do to the debacle of the Fire phone Amazon did not want to manufacture a lot of the Echos in case the demand was limited. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
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You are right they will ship on July 14, The price is close to $200. I would have appreciated a note indicating I would not receive an invitation to order. On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: The echo is now generally available for sale, as I understand it. No invitation necessary. So, I would think that there would not be any more special okay issued for purchase, since you can just go and order it. I don't know what it costs. I certainly hope it isn't $200, as they had suggested it would be. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Larry after I asked for an invitation via the amazon website it took like a month or a little longer before I received the opportunity to order it I placed my order on May 27 and just received it yesterday. So as long as you are sure you asked for the invite to buy one it should come eventually then you got about a month wait after that. On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: I never received an invitation or a response to my invitation request. I would have purchased one. at that price. on On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Larry after asking for an invitation to buy one did you eventually receive the opportunity to buy one, and place the order? It is kind of a two step process asking for an invite then receiving the invite after a few weeks and placing your order when you receive the email invite. I think do to the debacle of the Fire phone Amazon did not want to manufacture a lot of the Echos in case the demand was limited. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of
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Hello all, I just got my echo and have very little time to get set up. Did you just go to the Amazon website to get started? Is that how you got instructions on how to use and configure the echo? Thanks very much. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hi Mary, Not sure what you mean does not work with air play as I just got it all working and tried using Siri with the new Apple Music I said play Bon Jovi, and sure enough it all worked and is playing over the Echo pretty cool. Now I do not think you can say to Echo Alexxa play Bon Jovi on Apple Music. I think you need to use the iPhone to get it started, but then you can use the verbal commands or remote to skip songs and change volume and such. Actually I am so impressed with the remote as I think it is the first remote I have owned for anything where you do not need to point it at the device or even be in the same room, very cool remote which I have been using to speak in to with a loud air conditioner on in the room. Now that I have learned VO does work over the Echo completely different user experience. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: The echo at this time definitely does not work with airplay. I would not hold my breath waiting for it to do so, as that is probably not what Amazon has in mind. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You
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Hi Mary, Disconnecting the iPhone by telling Siri to turn bluetooth off did not affect the volume of VO on the iPhone as I just quickly turned bluetooth off and then back on on the iPhone and the VO volume did not change On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Amy Ruell aru...@comcast.net wrote: Call Amazon again. They lost my initial request. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to
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Now I am curious. When you disconnected the iPhone from Echo by turning Bluetooth off, did your volume go crazy again? I did it by telling Alexa to disconnect, and my volume went down, both the regular volume and voiceover volume. Maybe disconnecting Bluetooth or turning it off, on the iPhone, would work better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Sorry Mary just saw this one. All I did was say Alexxa pair, then the Echo says after a few seconds in pair mode turn the volume up on your iPhone as it defaults to zero go to settings on your iPhone and bluetooth and select Echo. To unfair just turn bluetooth off, no need to use the app for this. Good luck and let me know if you have any other questions. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, How did you pair your echo with your iPhone? Did you just turn Bluetooth on on the iPhone then tell Alexa to pair? Or did you have to use the app or the Mac or whatever? Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via
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The echo is now generally available for sale, as I understand it. No invitation necessary. So, I would think that there would not be any more special okay issued for purchase, since you can just go and order it. I don't know what it costs. I certainly hope it isn't $200, as they had suggested it would be. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Larry after I asked for an invitation via the amazon website it took like a month or a little longer before I received the opportunity to order it I placed my order on May 27 and just received it yesterday. So as long as you are sure you asked for the invite to buy one it should come eventually then you got about a month wait after that. On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: I never received an invitation or a response to my invitation request. I would have purchased one. at that price. on On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Larry after asking for an invitation to buy one did you eventually receive the opportunity to buy one, and place the order? It is kind of a two step process asking for an invite then receiving the invite after a few weeks and placing your order when you receive the email invite. I think do to the debacle of the Fire phone Amazon did not want to manufacture a lot of the Echos in case the demand was limited. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at
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I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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Yes! There are fairly good instructions on their web site, and, you’ll need to install the Amazon Echo app on your mobile device. And, I must say, the echo app is a big pain to configure. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Amy Ruell aru...@comcast.net wrote: Hello all, I just got my echo and have very little time to get set up. Did you just go to the Amazon website to get started? Is that how you got instructions on how to use and configure the echo? Thanks very much. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hi Mary, Not sure what you mean does not work with air play as I just got it all working and tried using Siri with the new Apple Music I said play Bon Jovi, and sure enough it all worked and is playing over the Echo pretty cool. Now I do not think you can say to Echo Alexxa play Bon Jovi on Apple Music. I think you need to use the iPhone to get it started, but then you can use the verbal commands or remote to skip songs and change volume and such. Actually I am so impressed with the remote as I think it is the first remote I have owned for anything where you do not need to point it at the device or even be in the same room, very cool remote which I have been using to speak in to with a loud air conditioner on in the room. Now that I have learned VO does work over the Echo completely different user experience. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: The echo at this time definitely does not work with airplay. I would not hold my breath waiting for it to do so, as that is probably not what Amazon has in mind. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this
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Thanks, Rich! -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rich Ring Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 3:37 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: Rich Ring Subject: Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone Yes! There are fairly good instructions on their web site, and, you’ll need to install the Amazon Echo app on your mobile device. And, I must say, the echo app is a big pain to configure. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Amy Ruell aru...@comcast.net wrote: Hello all, I just got my echo and have very little time to get set up. Did you just go to the Amazon website to get started? Is that how you got instructions on how to use and configure the echo? Thanks very much. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hi Mary, Not sure what you mean does not work with air play as I just got it all working and tried using Siri with the new Apple Music I said play Bon Jovi, and sure enough it all worked and is playing over the Echo pretty cool. Now I do not think you can say to Echo Alexxa play Bon Jovi on Apple Music. I think you need to use the iPhone to get it started, but then you can use the verbal commands or remote to skip songs and change volume and such. Actually I am so impressed with the remote as I think it is the first remote I have owned for anything where you do not need to point it at the device or even be in the same room, very cool remote which I have been using to speak in to with a loud air conditioner on in the room. Now that I have learned VO does work over the Echo completely different user experience. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: The echo at this time definitely does not work with airplay. I would not hold my breath waiting for it to do so, as that is probably not what Amazon has in mind. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any
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hahaha, you are very welcome. Sometimes it just takes asking a question to point out the *duh* things. I always bop myself on the head when I come across those. May and LD Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hey May, What is it that Homer Simpson says, doh because that fixed it. Can’t believe I did not think of that as when you pair your iPhone with the Echo sure enough your iPhone volume must go to zero by default, just got it paired and playing something from Downcast on the Echo. Thanks so much and do pass along my thanks to your friend for pointing out the blatantly obvious. Ok, now this really changes things since the iPhone and VO does work with the Echo. Time to explore more. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:04 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Hey Bryan. Check your audio ducking to make sure it's not on? Also, my friend said he just needed to turn up the volume on either the IPhone or the echo the first time he did it. Good luck. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the
Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone
Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's
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The echo at this time definitely does not work with airplay. I would not hold my breath waiting for it to do so, as that is probably not what Amazon has in mind. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit
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Hi Brian, How did you pair your echo with your iPhone? Did you just turn Bluetooth on on the iPhone then tell Alexa to pair? Or did you have to use the app or the Mac or whatever? Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know.
Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone
Sorry Mary just saw this one. All I did was say Alexxa pair, then the Echo says after a few seconds in pair mode turn the volume up on your iPhone as it defaults to zero go to settings on your iPhone and bluetooth and select Echo. To unfair just turn bluetooth off, no need to use the app for this. Good luck and let me know if you have any other questions. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, How did you pair your echo with your iPhone? Did you just turn Bluetooth on on the iPhone then tell Alexa to pair? Or did you have to use the app or the Mac or whatever? Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the
Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone
Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop
Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone
Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at
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Hi Mary, Not sure what you mean does not work with air play as I just got it all working and tried using Siri with the new Apple Music I said play Bon Jovi, and sure enough it all worked and is playing over the Echo pretty cool. Now I do not think you can say to Echo Alexxa play Bon Jovi on Apple Music. I think you need to use the iPhone to get it started, but then you can use the verbal commands or remote to skip songs and change volume and such. Actually I am so impressed with the remote as I think it is the first remote I have owned for anything where you do not need to point it at the device or even be in the same room, very cool remote which I have been using to speak in to with a loud air conditioner on in the room. Now that I have learned VO does work over the Echo completely different user experience. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: The echo at this time definitely does not work with airplay. I would not hold my breath waiting for it to do so, as that is probably not what Amazon has in mind. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at
Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone
Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the
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I forgot to mention, that you can also play or audible books on the echo. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop
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Hey May, What is it that Homer Simpson says, doh because that fixed it. Can’t believe I did not think of that as when you pair your iPhone with the Echo sure enough your iPhone volume must go to zero by default, just got it paired and playing something from Downcast on the Echo. Thanks so much and do pass along my thanks to your friend for pointing out the blatantly obvious. Ok, now this really changes things since the iPhone and VO does work with the Echo. Time to explore more. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:04 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Hey Bryan. Check your audio ducking to make sure it's not on? Also, my friend said he just needed to turn up the volume on either the IPhone or the echo the first time he did it. Good luck. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed
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Larry after asking for an invitation to buy one did you eventually receive the opportunity to buy one, and place the order? It is kind of a two step process asking for an invite then receiving the invite after a few weeks and placing your order when you receive the email invite. I think do to the debacle of the Fire phone Amazon did not want to manufacture a lot of the Echos in case the demand was limited. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Larry McCreary lrmccre...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello, I would like to have an echo. I requested an invitation in early April and there was an indication I should hear something in several weeks. Since the echoes will begin shipping on July 14 I am wondering if I will receive one. I hope the unit will work with airplay. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails
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They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at
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Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by
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Yes, and that’s what I tried to register. Still no go, though. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brent Harding Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 10:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone I remember hearing that shopping may be limited to things you've ordered on Amazon before. - Original Message - From: Amy Ruell mailto:aru...@comcast.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 6:56 PM Subject: Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone Hello all, Surprisingly, I set up my echo without any difficulty. However, I still do not know how to get downcast to play using the echo and also don't know how to get a shopping purchase completed. Any help would be greatly Appreciated. Also, to use the echo with At Bat, do I open the At Bat app first? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 4:39 PM, May mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: hahaha, you are very welcome. Sometimes it just takes asking a question to point out the *duh* things. I always bop myself on the head when I come across those. May and LD Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hey May, What is it that Homer Simpson says, doh because that fixed it. Can’t believe I did not think of that as when you pair your iPhone with the Echo sure enough your iPhone volume must go to zero by default, just got it paired and playing something from Downcast on the Echo. Thanks so much and do pass along my thanks to your friend for pointing out the blatantly obvious. Ok, now this really changes things since the iPhone and VO does work with the Echo. Time to explore more. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:04 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Hey Bryan. Check your audio ducking to make sure it's not on? Also, my friend said he just needed to turn up the volume on either the IPhone or the echo the first time he did it. Good luck. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over
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I remember hearing that shopping may be limited to things you've ordered on Amazon before. - Original Message - From: Amy Ruell To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 6:56 PM Subject: Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone Hello all, Surprisingly, I set up my echo without any difficulty. However, I still do not know how to get downcast to play using the echo and also don't know how to get a shopping purchase completed. Any help would be greatly Appreciated. Also, to use the echo with At Bat, do I open the At Bat app first? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 4:39 PM, May mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: hahaha, you are very welcome. Sometimes it just takes asking a question to point out the *duh* things. I always bop myself on the head when I come across those. May and LD Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hey May, What is it that Homer Simpson says, doh because that fixed it. Can’t believe I did not think of that as when you pair your iPhone with the Echo sure enough your iPhone volume must go to zero by default, just got it paired and playing something from Downcast on the Echo. Thanks so much and do pass along my thanks to your friend for pointing out the blatantly obvious. Ok, now this really changes things since the iPhone and VO does work with the Echo. Time to explore more. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:04 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Hey Bryan. Check your audio ducking to make sure it's not on? Also, my friend said he just needed to turn up the volume on either the IPhone or the echo the first time he did it. Good luck. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's
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Hi. Not sure why you are having that issue and I wish I had a solution for you. All I can say is that I use Bluetooth every day with my iPhone 6 plus paired to the Echo with no issues at all. I just say Alexa connect, and she finds my phone and pairs with it. When I'm done, I simply say Alexa disconnect. Best regards, Rick Alfaro -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Fischler Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 12:58 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Amazon Echo and the iPhone Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list
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Hello all, Surprisingly, I set up my echo without any difficulty. However, I still do not know how to get downcast to play using the echo and also don't know how to get a shopping purchase completed. Any help would be greatly Appreciated. Also, to use the echo with At Bat, do I open the At Bat app first? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 4:39 PM, May mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: hahaha, you are very welcome. Sometimes it just takes asking a question to point out the *duh* things. I always bop myself on the head when I come across those. May and LD Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hey May, What is it that Homer Simpson says, doh because that fixed it. Can’t believe I did not think of that as when you pair your iPhone with the Echo sure enough your iPhone volume must go to zero by default, just got it paired and playing something from Downcast on the Echo. Thanks so much and do pass along my thanks to your friend for pointing out the blatantly obvious. Ok, now this really changes things since the iPhone and VO does work with the Echo. Time to explore more. On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:04 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Hey Bryan. Check your audio ducking to make sure it's not on? Also, my friend said he just needed to turn up the volume on either the IPhone or the echo the first time he did it. Good luck. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Yes agreed it does do all that and I was able to get something from Tune In to play and i did not have to log in to tune in or anything but I do have tune in pro. The main reason I got it was to quickly use with MLB At Bat as my friend who does not use VO showed that feature off to me. Unfortunately since pairing the Echo with the iPhone seems to knock out VO it is not something I can do unless someone who uses VO has figured out a work around. Am going to play with it more today to see what I can figure out but tried it twice and both times VO disappeared, and I had to turn bluetooth off on the iPhone to then get VO back. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, You can listen to podcasts on the echo. You can also connect and I heart account, or establish one,. I did it with the Mac using the URL for the Echo site. It is still limited, but it isn't as bad as just being able to play prime music I think you are also supposed to be able to connect your tune in account, and if you have favorites, they are supposed to go to the top of the search list when Alexa searches using to noon. And, there is the news brief, weather forecasts, and other general information. I hope it will get better. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Thanks as I am curious to as seeing Apple’s new music store on the same day is really making me consider returning the Echo if all a VO user can access is playing music on it through prime music than unfortunately the Echo is pretty useless. I did quickly get a response from Amazon as I sent them an email about the VO issues through the iPhone and they claim they are passing my feedback along to their developers so we shall see. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:35 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: They are definitely a VO user. I'll ask him whenever he's done working for the day. On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi May, I remember when the ability to use your iTunes library through echo via the iPhone first became available on echo. They didn't mention the ability to do anything else with the Bluetooth from the iPhone to your echo. I would be very interested to know what your friend is able to do with Bluetooth from their iPhone to the echo, and whether they are a vo user. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:15 AM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to ask a friend of mine, but he has his IPhone and echo connected and plays everything through the echo with no problems. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun
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Thanks for confirming what I expected. Considering Amazon’s history with Kindle and accessibility you would think they would get their act together now especially on a device that could be so freaking useful for the blind. If I ever get to meet Bezos he is definitely getting kicked in the nuts. LOL. Of course mine arrives on the day Apple music drops making me question whether or not I should just send it back. On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at
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Brian, I don't think you're supposed to be able to play MLB from your phone to the echo. ITunes. I think that's it. The Bluetooth will take your iTunes stuff that you select on your iPhone and plant over the echo speaker. I haven't done it. But that is what is supposed to do. As for your other stuff, no, it is a bust. The Mac app is kind of strange in that you have to do a lot of mouse rotting and pressing and praying, and eventually, you can probably get your news flash list set up the way you wanted. But forget that to do and the shopping list. No go all the way around until Amazon gets its accessibility act together sometime the next millennium. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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I wonder if MLB supports Airplay but not Bluetooth? That would seem odd though that the Echo makes VO go quiet. It might not be able to handle more than one thing, as even Alexa's voice doesn't speak over anything, and Apple doesn't have the way to do it like that where it pauses to speak. There's probably something about the Bluetooth in the Echo the phone might not like. It's too bad Amazon doesn't add Airplay, as I'm sure the hardware can do it, they just don't want to work with Apple for anything except the app itself, which they kind of have to. - Original Message - From: Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 9:01 PM Subject: Amazon Echo and the iPhone Just got my Amazon Echo today, and have read on the list that certain things for the Echo do not work with VoiceOVer. It took awhile and some frustration but I finally got it to connect to my wifi network.I wanted to see if anyone found any works arounds for these two things. One I connected my iPhone via bluetooth to the Echo, but this completely knocked out VoiceOVer, congrats to Amazon for making the first bluetooth speaker that does not work with VO. Can anyone get their iPhone VO to play over the Echo? I want to pair it so I can listen to MLV At Bat games through the echo. The other thing I noticed is there is no way to delete items that you have added to your to do list and shopping list. I tried clicking the delete button both on the iPhone app and then on safari on th emac, but instead of deleting items it just kept swapping the item I clicked delete from one list to the other so taking a item on the shopping list and instead of deleting it moved it to the to do list. The button next to delete is move to the other list so obviously some kind of a focus issue. If anyone has had any luck with any of this please do let us know. Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
