Ive had an R1 for about a month and posted this review.
The spamming issue has been corrected and is not a problem. There is still an issue with “abrupt volume drop” that seems to occur when you elect to change the speaker volume for an announcement. Looks like that is caused by the hub submitting a volume reset before the message is complete. The workaround is to not alter the speaker volume, but I’m in a two story house and sometimes I need to increase the volume.
In short if/when they fix they the volume drop problem it will be perfect for my use.