Does anyone else text someone else in your own home if they are in another room? Am I just too lazy to go talk to them? Are you like me?
My wife and I do this, mostly because we’re both often doing stuff in the house, but also want to send each other cat pictures, which don’t demand an immediate response.
Yeah me and my husbands messages are mostly memes and cat pictures.
Us too. Inappropriate memes that make us laugh. Avoids the “can I see” from the kids.
If we’re not in the same room, we use an encrypted messenger. We do DMs and have a group chat.
If we’re in the same room but don’t want the kids to hear, we’ll message too. If you ask out loud if we should get pizza, a no would prompt a mutiny.
We tried to use assistant broadcast, but it fails everytime someone turns the volume down on one. They need to fix the volume for broadcasts.
They need to fix the volume for broadcasts.
They have a lot of long-standing bugs but it seems like Google Assistant isn’t really being prioritised by Google at the moment. They’re actually removing a bunch of features: https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/google-assistant-will-lose-these-17-features-in-the-next-few-weeks/
Broadcasts via Google’s API also fail if the network has IPv6 enabled. That’s been broken for years and I doubt it’ll ever be fixed.
Yeah my experience was with Amazon products and unless You’ve got the biggest speaker models you can’t even hear them over the TV.
Bring TP to guest bathroom please!
My girfriend will text me when I am doing something noisy and she doesn’t want to get out of bed.
Only when there’s a cat sleeping on someone’s lap
This is the correct answer.
if you’ve got stairs and some shitty acoustics, yeah definitely
I do, but it’s because my wife works from home and spends three quarters of the day with the chick cave door closed doing teams meetings. Generally my msgs will be “want brunch/coffee/pastries?” etc.
Technically not texting, but we have a Home Discord group chat.
We do this, too. Really convenient.
What is that?
We have a Signal group chat, works really well for all kinds of things. Like “Dinner is ready” or “is anybody home?”
That’s awesome! So much more flexible than group text or whatever.
Yes. Yes. And yes.
My kid prefers to be texted for dinner. Knocking is iffy because of the ear buds.
As posted above, same here. We use the Intercom feature on a HomePod to call her down. She hates it because the whole point of AirPods Pro is so she can ignore everyone!
If she hates it then maybe stop?
But then she would miss out on dinner, family movie night and other social interactions!
I do, and he reads them days later and apologises.
Now that he is overseas on a business trip he reads them all immediately, but apparently in-house is not an option.
I use Google Home Assistant to broadcast messages, e.g. “dinner’s ready”
I yell.
If they’re in the same room, obviously I’ll just speak to them. If they’re in the next room over and the door is open, I’ll still speak, just louder. But if they’re two rooms away or upstairs, I’ll text.
I’ve never done it in my own home, but I had a coworker I’d text with even though his desk was an arms length away from mine. Mostly because it could be hard to tell when either of us was on or about to make a call.
All the time. Usually because I am working from home and my husband has the dog snoring in his lap and doesn’t want to disturb him. Or I’m piled into bed with the dogs and don’t want to create a stir by getting up. Dogs govern a lot of my time lol.
