Amazon Tap

W Sisters Short on The Dance Party

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The day of T’s birthday party the girls finished breakfast early. They were happily playing with lego on the floor of the kitchen. It was pretty picturesque setup for me. I was reading something on my iPad and drinking my coffee while sitting at the kitchen table. I had the garden doors open for a breeze. It was quite lovely.

I had a playlist from Spotify going on the Amazon TAP we have in the kitchen. The girls were generally just oblivious to the music and building away. Then the song “Thats What I Like” from Flow Rida came on. Back in NY the girls used to warm up to it in Gymnastics class. They always liked that song. I heard it come on and casually glanced over to them. As if reading my mind they looked at me for a second. Then they stood up without saying a word to each other and began to dance to the song.
I could not stop laughing at how spontaneous the whole thing was.

At Least My Amazon Tap Is Ready For London

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I followed a how to on Reddit for how to get my Tap working in the UK. It wasn’t straight forward like an Echo since it apparently is not sold in the UK. I was prepared for a challenge however it worked on the first attempt. For the next day i have to remember the time it gives me will be in GMT. MC and I are also going cold turkey and have the Tap giving us weather in Celsius. Apparently its a thing. Thankfully the Tap can convert stuff for us when we have no clue what it is telling us in Celsius.

Amazon Tap, Tapped Me Out

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I bought an Amazon Tap so my spooky spying music speaker can travel with me around my new house.  I know officially the Tap isn’t sold in the UK however I have read a few people who documented the hoops (and there are a few) to go through to get it to work.

My Tap arrived yesterday and setup was super easy.  I did notice that the wake word is Alexa.   Unlike the Echo you are not able to change it.  I was cleaning up around the apartment and took it with me to listen to Spotify.  After about an hour it stopped working.  it kept saying it lost its connection.  My Echo and all other devices working fine. I repaired the tap with my wireless yet it still isn’t working. I bought another Amazon speaker partially because it was branded easy to set up and get working.

I didn’t have the mental energy to deal with trying to reconfigure this. By the 3rd restart of the device while it was in its charging base it started working again.  Lets see if it stays working ok.