Smart Plug

[Nigel Loaring]

Not seen this mentioned before but I have had my B2 for a couple of years now and have used a trimmed in-line switch to turn the power on/off. Having recently acquired an Amazon Echo Dot I have now connected the B2 via a smart plug and is working well.

"Alexa B2 on"
"Alexa connect to Brennan"
"Alexa play music by.....
"Alexa B2 off"

[jon]

Are you controlling the Brennan using Alexa? That would be interesting! Or just playing Amazon music through the Bluetooth?

[Nigel Loaring]

Just playing Amazon music through the Brennan, though voice control would be brilliant.
It was more about not rummaging round the back of the unit to switch on!

[Spike Haward]

Hi
I use My media for Alexa to voice control my B2 - works well, but does need the app to be running as a service on your PC, so that must be switched on.

[Brennan Support]

Hi Nigel

Martin here - well done.

I'd like to do more with Alexa - but there is a "steep learning curve" - I am sure others will be interested.

Could you tell me more about what you did - I'd like to replicate - sometimes its easier to start from something that works than wade through tons of Amazon Web Services documentation.

If you do post something - email on thebrennanb2.com so I know to look

Martin

[Nigel Loaring]

Hi Martin
As I put in my post I just use an Echo dot to control a smart plug to switch the B2 on/off, though that seems a bit flaky as the unit doesn't always recognise that there is power to it. Then I am just using Bluetooth to play Amazon music through the B2. It looks like Spike has a solution for accessing stored music in his response.
Thanks for getting in touch.
Nigel