Love the show but I really am frustrated that no one on Twit talks about open source home automation platforms like Home Assistant or OpenHab, or paid solutions like Homeseer. You can do SO much more with all the HA tech out there.
I use Home Assistant and I’ve done much deeper integrations/automations via Node-Red than anything talked about on the show. I can turn my television on either on the wall via an RF wall switch or through Alexa that will lower all the lights or make them a colour I wish them to be. My smart home knows when I’m home and can adjust the heat thresholds based on if I’m home or not. I can have my home warm up before I come home from work. If someone enters my home that’s not me, my Wyze cameras send me live images via telegram. There’s so much more you can do with a home automation hub solution than you can with any one proprietary ecosystem.
As far as wake words, I would prefer you just beep them out or delete part of the wake word (as your production people did at one point). I prefer that, to having fake wake words. Because you have to remember it, and it sort of takes away from the spontaneity of the show when you have to be conscious of the words you’re using when talking about tech.
Love the show.