After she retired my wife got serious about sewing as a hobby. For Christmas 2018 I got her an Echo Look from Amazon so that she could document and share her projects online. A lot of people had concerns about the use of this device - it was intended as a style consultant/advisor but for my wife's purposes it worked great as a hands free camera and it provided the standard Alexa capabilities.
Recently got an email from Amazon that indicated that the device would stop functioning soon.
Kind of a nasty surprise to find out that something that you use will be shut down. I guess this is the problem with using a proprietary cloud connected device. I'm just disappointed that they killed the device and service after only two years. At least they could have found an alternative to leave it functioning but I guess it's too integrated with the service in their cloud. It would be great if they would provide the hardware documentation as the device has a lot of useful features and it would be nice not to just put it in the garbage. I don't hold out much hope for that. Maybe at best someone will reverse engineer it. I'll certainly open it up once it ceases to function.....
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