Meanwhile, at JT towers - I spent possibly an hour trying to get the cheap-ass Epson printer that Lady T bought to connect to our wifi, because apparently using the Epson app to send a print job from her phone was too inconvenient, and having to move the laptop 'near ish' was a pain.

I had to spend a lot of time dicking about holding buttons, turning off and on, pressing the stupid button on the stupid router. Eventually it worked but that was mainly due to my dogged persistence than any skill or nicely set up system.

This Alexa integration doesn't sound so bad to me - but - i do worry a bit about the future, if everything is all interconnected and reliant, if it goes down people will be kinda stuck.