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Cool, it works on the phone too. That might come in handy occasionally.
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Huh, the instructions explicitly says it doesn't work on the phone. It seems like it would be a little too cumbersome to me on the phone since you have to say "Talk to OurGroceries" then do a call and response just add and remove items when you can open and tap so much quicker. For me, the draw was being able to just say it out loud in the moment I notice I'm out of whatever it is I need to add since I've got Homes loving everywhere.
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Oct 5, 2017 01:04
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I think the only time I'm likely to use it is while driving. It's just nice to have the option. I'm almost certain I'm not going to remember how to trigger it anyway.
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Oct 5, 2017 02:35
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This is a fantastic example of Google going to Google. After a day of touting their machine leaning and AI, my Google news feed tells me my Pixel 2XL has shipped. Only, it hasn't. It's just the order email. Google now failed at parsing their own email sent to their own email service about their own product.
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Oct 5, 2017 02:56
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Lol ten minutes after I asked the Assistant to talk to OurGroceries I got a rewards survey asking if I've recently said "OK Google, talk to OurGroceries".
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Oct 5, 2017 03:03
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LastInLine posted:Huh, the instructions explicitly says it doesn't work on the phone. It seems like it would be a little too cumbersome to me on the phone since you have to say "Talk to OurGroceries" then do a call and response just add and remove items when you can open and tap so much quicker. For me, the draw was being able to just say it out loud in the moment I notice I'm out of whatever it is I need to add since I've got Homes loving everywhere. This is why instead of using MyQ's Assistant integration on my phone, I use its IFTTT integration and set up an activation phrase. It's easier to say "close the garage door" instead of "talk to MyQ" ...wait several seconds while it prattle In about what I can do with MyQ... "close Garage door". Depending on their IFTTT integrations, that might work for OurGroceries.
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Oct 5, 2017 06:17
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Yeah bull pointed this out in the cutting came thread when I was wavering on going to the Harmony Hub. That's pretty much impossible to use without IFTTT. OurGroceries, however, works really well with the "Talk to..." flow. It uses a different voice and parses things step by step. I wouldn't want to use it to manage the list (though you can) but for quickly adding things to or removing things from the list it's quite painless. The Home app now has IFTTT-like shortcuts built in but I doubt they work with third party apps plus I really hate trigger phrases compared to natural language input.
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Oct 5, 2017 10:55
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Random thought: do cards saved for use in Android Pay require re-adding/re-authorising/basically any fiddling whatever when moving to new hardware?
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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Oct 5, 2017 18:39
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spincube posted:Random thought: do cards saved for use in Android Pay require re-adding/re-authorising/basically any fiddling whatever when moving to new hardware?
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Scaramouche posted:I had one that popped up right after watching an LP video on YouTube (Men Drinkin Coffee) asking me if the video I had just watched would be a good recommendation. Part of why it's startling I think is the immediacy; I had just finished watching that video, but also the idea that a computer/database somewhere could react within seconds of you doing a (in your mind) relatively disconnected activity. I've only ever had that happen on videos I've closed within a few seconds of opening, it's odd
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Oct 5, 2017 22:17
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spincube posted:Random thought: do cards saved for use in Android Pay require re-adding/re-authorising/basically any fiddling whatever when moving to new hardware? Yes.
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Oct 6, 2017 01:33
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Timely on my S7 has stopped playing alarms in the morning until after I unlock the phone (Had my 6:15 alarm play at 6:42 for example). Is this a bug with the app or am I getting Samsunged? Also, is Timely still the goto alarm app?
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Oct 6, 2017 20:48
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Do you have it in your Unmonitored Apps in Battery aka excluded from Doze?
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Oct 6, 2017 20:52
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CascadeBeta posted:Timely on my S7 has stopped playing alarms in the morning until after I unlock the phone (Had my 6:15 alarm play at 6:42 for example). Is this a bug with the app or am I getting Samsunged? Also, is Timely still the goto alarm app? Timely stopped working for me as well. I use Google's default application. My Timely would set alarms and timers incorrectly when I used Assistant.
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Timely stopped doing the pre-alarm when I got my Pixel, but with the latest patch to Android O it's been working again. It's worked flawlessly for me otherwise.
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I switched from Timely to AMdroid a while ago and haven't looked back. It's got everything (the latest update added a history page so you can see when the alarm rang and how long you took to disable it) and is just sweet as hell. Despite the horrible name, I love it.
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So I use Spotify for my commute, and I've been trying in vain to share a track from a large playlist and Spotify keeps making GBS threads the bed and crashing. Anyone else been experiencing this, pixel xl on oreo.
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Oct 7, 2017 10:42
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LastInLine posted:I switched from Timely to AMdroid a while ago and haven't looked back. It's got everything (the latest update added a history page so you can see when the alarm rang and how long you took to disable it) and is just sweet as hell. Despite the horrible name, I love it. While I Can't Wake Up, linked in the OP, sounds interesting, I really enjoy the look of AMdroid, and the spelling puzzle is just fine for me when I'm trying to wake up.
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Fart of Presto posted:Yeah, I'm using that as well after having used Gentle Alarm for a lifetime and trying out Timely for a short while. Gentle Alarm > Timely > AMdroid was my progression as well. I could never give up pre-alarms, which is actually it turns out not so great. It's kind of like how after typing on a Microsoft Natural Elite for two decades I now can't type on straight keyboards. Both have become way more of a handicap than the problem they were designed to solve.
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Oct 7, 2017 13:42
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ringu0 posted:Ten minutes after googling the name "Frank Grimes" I received the creepiest survey: I think I must have googled for the "Would you like to know more?" meme because I got this one a couple weeks ago.    It was a very  moment
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Well, would you like to know more?
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Oct 7, 2017 21:56
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Is there an app to stop me waking up 10 minutes before my alarm goes off
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Oct 8, 2017 00:02
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Yes, they're called "too much alcohol".
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Oct 8, 2017 00:08
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I'm sticking with Timely for the foreseeable future. It works well for me, and I don't want challenges because I can't see for poo poo at the time my alarm goes off. So it would be more frustrating than anything because I'd have to either fumble for my glasses or just fumble through the challenge while my wife gets increasingly pissed off that my alarm is still going off.
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Oct 8, 2017 00:22
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Skarsnik posted:Is there an app to stop me waking up 10 minutes before my alarm goes off You all should get on Skarsnik's and my level...I haven't used an alarm in years. (unfortunately I think this means you have to get old)
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Question for Podcast Addict users: is there any way to make the unpause icon persist on the lock screen? I have to pause frequently to talk to people at work, and it'd be nice if I could resume without opening the phone.
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Oct 10, 2017 04:13
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I believe the answer is no because that stuff is determined by your phones RAM management on an OS level.
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Yeah, Incessant Excess is right. There's no reason the playback notification should disappear when it's paused unless the app is getting kicked out of memory.
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Are there any Android camera apps that do any of the whiz-bang photo modes that are abundant in the stock iOS photo app? I've often wondered, does Apple hold a bunch of patents that prevents Google from doing cool presets like that in the stock Android camera app? Because if you compare the two it's no contest, iOS offers way more modes out of the box. I have a Pixel, surely its camera is capable of the same portrait modes, etc... at least from a hardware perspective?
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IAmKale posted:Are there any Android camera apps that do any of the whiz-bang photo modes that are abundant in the stock iOS photo app? It's not a camera, but I've been dicking around with Google's Snapseed and it's pretty neat. It's a post-processing app with a shitload of presets and lots of other tools for manipulating photos.
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Atahualpa posted:Question for Podcast Addict users: is there any way to make the unpause icon persist on the lock screen? I have to pause frequently to talk to people at work, and it'd be nice if I could resume without opening the phone. Strangely, I've never had this problem with PA. Are you hitting the X by accident? Try just unplugging your headphones briefly instead.
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I'm not really sure if this is the right thread, but my work posts its schedule in the stupidest way possible. Each day they post each person who is working that day as an all day event with their name and their scheduled hours as the title. These are posted to different calendars based on department location. Basically it spams the poo poo out of my phone with events whether I am working or not.  I'm wondering if there is a script I could run that would find my name and pull it to a different calendar in a sane format. This lunacy makes the calendar pretty much useless for personal use. Another option is to just download some other calendar app, and use one for work and one for personal. The work one would still end up being spammed with everyone elses schedule and force me to use day view to see whether I work or not.
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Google Drive definitely has some pretty robust scripting tools you can use to interact with the Calendar API. I'm phoneposting so I can't necessarily look it up right now, but with a little bit of googling I was recently able to create a Sheets spreadsheet of a workout schedule, autofill a date range, and generate a calendar. (It involves adding a custom menu & button to the spreadsheet to contain the script, but it's surprisingly easy to do.)
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IAmKale posted:Are there any Android camera apps that do any of the whiz-bang photo modes that are abundant in the stock iOS photo app? I assume it's a holdover from the 'we'll provide a basic functional experience and wait for ~developers~ to produce their own ~magical experiences~ in their own apps' Gingerbread era. Strategy these days instead seems to be 'can we find a problem for AI to solve in it', hence the upcoming Google Lens 'you are looking at %famous_painting%, here's a wikipedia summary' poo poo. I mean they can crowbar those stupid stickers into their messaging app, but the idea of slapping a few filters, frames, even those face effects from ICS (that they later removed because ?????) into the camera just escapes them. Madness.
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Oct 11, 2017 08:46
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IAmKale posted:Are there any Android camera apps that do any of the whiz-bang photo modes that are abundant in the stock iOS photo app? Portrait mode iPhone style requires dual cameras so only works on the Plus model iPhones. The new Pixel XL has a single camera mode but I don't know how well it works. Anyway having had a 7 Plus for six months I can quite safely say the added mode (and it is portrait mode unless you count square as a mode) is a gimmick and I miss the camera from my old N6P.
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Sir Lemming posted:Google Drive definitely has some pretty robust scripting tools you can use to interact with the Calendar API. I'm phoneposting so I can't necessarily look it up right now, but with a little bit of googling I was recently able to create a Sheets spreadsheet of a workout schedule, autofill a date range, and generate a calendar. (It involves adding a custom menu & button to the spreadsheet to contain the script, but it's surprisingly easy to do.) Seconded. If you're fairly decent with Javascript, it would probably be /fairly/ straightforward scan the events from one calendar, parse a time and date from the title, and post them to another calendar using the Google Apps Scripting, (which despite the name, works on any Google Account) I've been using the scripting to do calendar (and other) things for years. Dealing with updates to calendar events on the source calendar will probably be a pain, though. I've currently rigged up scripts that put descriptions and durations of current Severe Weather warnings to one of my calendars (somewhat useful, runs every 15 minutes),and Descriptions, release dates, and durations of several podcasts I listen to to a separate calendar.(more for fun, runs every hour) I initially started having a script that would scrape Heavens Above once a day for International Space Station passes visible from my house and post them on a third calendar, but the IDE for Google Apps Scripts is not the best, and I wound up switching that over to another programming language three or four years ago.
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I've got to know, what's their reasoning for putting the times in the title instead of in the event? I love corporate logic so much and I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this.
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LastInLine posted:I've got to know, what's their reasoning for putting the times in the title instead of in the event? I love corporate logic so much and I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this. It looks like they are just writing it the same way you'd write it out on a sheet of paper. They are just clicking on the day in Calendar and writing out the whole thing in the Event input box, and because they are writing the time as "10-6" it's not parsing it as a time.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:It looks like they are just writing it the same way you'd write it out on a sheet of paper. They are just clicking on the day in Calendar and writing out the whole thing in the Event input box, and because they are writing the time as "10-6" it's not parsing it as a time. I know what they're doing, I want to hear the reason why. . Surely someone has pointed out to them by now that this is not how calendars work and like every company when a lower level employee points out that his boss is a retard, they made up some reason on the spot why they're right and this new, dumb employee talking to them about calendars is wrong. That's the stuff I want to hear. I need that bullshit reason.
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