Music

There are a few different options for playing music at the Lodge.

Alexa

There are several Amazon Echo devices throughout the lodge. If you haven’t used one before, they look like this and can be found in the kitchen, living room, basement, arcade, and main bedroom.

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To use these, simply get near one and say “Alexa.” You’ll see a blue bar light up if the device heard the activation word.

At that point you can do things like “Alexa, play Queen’s greatest hits” or “Alexa what is the capital of Bolivia?”

Check out http://www.amazon.com/alexa for all kinds of usage tips.

Whole home audio

You can use the individual Alexa devices to play audio in those individual locations. You can also take advantage of the whole home audio system. The volume control for the speakers around the Lodge look like this:

Turn the volume dial clockwise and the green light next to A should come on. If a different letter lights up, press the volume dial in until A is illuminated. The leftmost control in the living room controls speakers in the backyard.

If the light doesn’t come on, the power supply down in the theater room may have timed out. The “Power on” light on the “Kustom” amplifier in the theater room needs to be on. In this picture, you can see it’s turned off:

First make sure the power button is depressed. If that doesn’t work, press the button next to “Trigger” on the topmost iPower component. You may have to press it twice. If all that doesn’t work, once in a while I’ve needed to unplug and replug the iPower component at the wall.

If you’ve worked through all that and the A light is on, what can you do with it? We’ve connected another Alexa device down in the theater room, and you don’t have to walk down there to use it!

From any Alexa you can say “Alexa play ______ on Lodge Speakers.” That’ll send music to the system those volume controls are connected to. Just add “on Lodge Speakers” to the end of your command. That includes skipping tracks, like “Alexa next on Lodge Speakers” or “Alexa stop on Lodge Speakers.”

You can turn the volume controls counter-clockwise until the green light turns off to turn the speakers back off when you’re done.

Sun room

Details coming soon.