Amazon Alexa VS Mycroft.AI

So our Alexa Echo Plus has been working great until our account was hacked. Thinking it was not paired correctly I reset the device. First with the button then with a pin on the bottom. The alexa app will not discover the device. The website alexa.amazon.com login page is missing. Source: 5 months ago

The "old" Tipp to use alexa.amazon.com does not work anymore - at least for me. I cant get to the Alexa Web App. Source: 6 months ago

Edit 1: spent the last 2 hours looking in to what I believe is every possible reddit post related to this issue, I have found out that many have solved it with the web interface using alexa.amazon.com which right now only prompts me to scan a qr code that will open the alexa app on my device thus useless, otherwise there is the possibility to try and connect it as a tap device, which for me does not work, I have... Source: 7 months ago

So, for some reason my 1st gen echo was disconnected and after googling and trying all the fix that I have read both in google and here in reddit, it wont connect to wifi. The only thing I havent tried is using the site called alexa.amazon.com, the reason is the site is telling you to download the app. What I have tried. Source: 7 months ago

Alexa is developed by Amazon, a voice-activated virtual assistant that can assist you with a wide range of tasks like playing music, managing smart home appliances, setting reminders, placing calls, and much more. Source: 8 months ago

It's indeed suspicious. You're sending your voice samples, your various services accounts, your location and more private data to some proprietary black box in some public cloud. Sorry, but this is a privacy nightmare. It should be open source and self-hosted like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai) or Leon (https://getleon.ai) to be trustworthy. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I was expecting this to be about Mycroft the AI assistant ( https://mycroft.ai/ ). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

But I would recommend writing some proper glue logic in Python and use the socket function for communication. But if you really want to get rid of Alexa, it's probably worth it to set up mycroft.ai or another open source assistant. Source: 10 months ago

Https://mycroft.ai/ is a sophisticated open source replacement for Siri/Alexa … you can buy their premade hardware version for $399. Source: 10 months ago

To add home automation, consider something like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai/). Source: 11 months ago