switching the Hands Free update on sure makes a dramatic difference to
the life of the battery and that's fair enough.
As Well as having the option to enable or disable I hope Amazon will
incorporate another option, enable when connected to power or something
similar.
On 17/02/2017 8:22 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Mine came through (at least as far as I can tell) on Tuesday here in the U.S.!
Tom Kaufman
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 7:05 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: RE: Echo Tap hands free update
My Tap finally got this update yesterday here in the US.
Best,
Rick Alfaro
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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 6:36 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Echo Tap hands free update
This arrived here, I had another look at the Tap settings and found the option
to enable the Hands Free mode right under the Battery status on the HTML web
page
Just to summarise again for those who don't know.
The Echo Tap is different from the Main Echo and the Echo Dot in that - by default - the
Tap doesn't listen for the wake word "Alex" followed by a command, the user
must press a button and then speak the commands.
With the Hands Free update the monitoring for the wake word "Alexa" can be
enabled thus the Tap functions as does the Dot etc though be warned that this function
will drain the battery significantly.
My suggestion is that you disable Hands Free if you intend to use the Tap a lot
on battery and enable it if you're using the Tap through its mains adapter or a
power bank.
Also note that Tap can be put to sleep with a simple short press of the power
button.
