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by solardev 1009 days ago
> On a side-note, I recall there was some kind of hardware device pairing (maybe Chromecast?) that used data over voice to establish that you are physically near the other device.

Yeah, that's pretty common in home smart devices. Looks like Google patented one version and Sonos has their implementation too. In my experience it works better than Bluetooth, especially in (2.4 GHz) noisy environments
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matusfaro 1009 days ago
Funny that you say Sonos.

I also remember there was a data-over-voice library called "chirp.io" which now redirects to Sonos homepage. Now I know why they acquired them :)

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solardev 1009 days ago
I wonder if it's also part of the patent battle they got in with Google over smart speaker stuff.

Side rant: It's so sad, to this day Google Assistant works terribly on my Sonos system, and it's a major reason I'm reluctant to further buy into their ecosystem. And Sonos's own assistant doesn't even support Spotify, last I checked. Their whole UX is... not great. I really wanted to work there and maybe try to fix some of the issues I experience as a user, but they rejected me. Alas.

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