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Farmor15 Mon 03-Nov-25 13:37:33

We have one with a screen, mainly for listening to radio. However, grandchildren found they could get it to play Paw Patrol, when we hadn't let them watch TV. They've also got it to tell jokes, which were fine, but then decided to ask to play a "fart song"shock. It found one, complete with cartoon graphics. After a few more rude requests, we found it playing a rather unsuitable song, and had to unplug it!

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Tizliz Mon 03-Nov-25 11:32:32

I only got one so I could video call my granddaughter but do use it everyday for the radio and timers.

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Allira Mon 03-Nov-25 11:13:24

Neither!

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Tizliz Mon 03-Nov-25 11:10:19

Does no-one else use Google home hub? All you all Alexa users?

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Tizliz Sun 02-Nov-25 12:56:59

I think there are lots of things this will do that I don't know about.

I worked out that you can ask it to name timers.e.g. Google set timer called 'potatoes' for 15 mins and it shows the name and a picture of vegetables. 'Fish' brings up a selection of fish.

Are there obvious things I am missing? I use radio, weather, timer, alarms, video calling

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