Introducing Amazon Echo Hub | 8” smart home control panel with Alexa | Compatible with thousands of devices
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Introducing Echo Hub — An easy-to-use Alexa-enabled control panel for your smart home devices—just ask Alexa or tap the display to control lights, smart plugs, camera feeds, and more.
Streamline your smart home — Customize the controls and widgets, displayed on your dashboard to quickly adjust devices, view cameras, start routines, and more.
Works with thousands of Alexa compatible devices — Compatible with thousands of connected locks, thermostats, speakers, and more. WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Matter, Sidewalk and Thread devices sync seamlessly with the built-in smart home hub.
Home security at your fingertips — Use the Echo Hub to arm and disarm your compatible security system. Use the Alexa app and compatible cameras, locks, alarms, and sensors to check in while you’re out.
Easy to install — Echo Hub can be wall mounted anywhere you have an outlet. Use in-wall cable pass throughs or a power-over-ethernet adapter (both sold separately) to hide cables. Also compatible with table-top stand (sold separately).
Play your music everywhere — Connect your preferred speaker to Echo Hub to play music, audiobooks, and podcasts in any room.
Designed to protect your privacy — Amazon is not in the business of selling your personal information to others. Built with multiple layers of privacy controls, including a mic off button.
Designed for sustainability – This device is made from 27% recycled materials. 97% of this device packaging is made of wood fiber-based materials from responsibly managed forests or recycled sources.
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Customers find the digital device easy to set up and use. They mention it makes the task incredibly easy and connects to their smart home devices straightforward. However, some customers have reported that the screen sometimes lags in responsiveness and the alerts are delayed at times. They also dislike the power consumption. Opinions are mixed on functionality, build quality, screen size, value for money, and connectivity.
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Aviv M –
These other reviews are pretty awful, read this
Originally I was going to maybe rate this 4 stars, but honestly, this is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for and nothing even comes remotely close to it, so I’ll go ahead and list everything it does great, followed by what needs improvements, and finally what you should NOT purchase this for… and at the end I’ll go over the “general” stuff like screen and sound.IF YOU DON’T WANT TO PULL OUT YOUR PHONE & GO TO ALEXA APPThis is honestly the only reason you should be buying this. Because you can already do everything and more directly on the Alexa app on your phone. So you need to (a) see yourself using the Alexa app a lot, and (b) wish you had it on your wall.IF YOU HAVE SMART DEVICESWithout these, this is just an overpriced and very bad tablet. Maybe you want to control a few devices around your house like your lights, look at the front door camera. If your requirements aren’t too specific with these and you just are willing to take what you can get, then this is it.IF YOU HAVE MULTIPLE OTHER ALEXA SPEAKERSThis really does help bring them together, because you now have a screen, although you might save some money if you get one of the other Echo Show devices. It’s cool to have it up on the wall, be able to again, not use your phone, not pull out some tablet, to change songs.IF YOU WANT A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF SECURITY & THERMOSTATThis will display your Ring alarm status, let you arm and disarm it, and see what your thermostat is set to from another location across the house (I wouldn’t recommend putting them side by side, that’s a waste.)IF YOU WANT YOUR HOME TO FEEL “MODERN” SMARTThis reminds me of things I’ve seen at high-end hotels. It’s just cool to have a touchscreen tablet on the wall, and be able to adjust some lights, play music, adjust the temperature.___________________DO >>NOT<< BUY FOR:1) Managing your device settings. This does a poor job. Your phone can do better. This should only be there to access frequently used devices you've already set up but don't want to navigate through your phone to access.2) Speakers. This isn't it. The sound isn't awful but it's not great, and you should only use this as a supplement to other speakers you already have in your home.3) Watching videos. Don't do it. I know you might think it'll be nice to put this in the kitchen and watch something while you cook, just get some other display or tablet.4) Controlling everything. This kind of ties into #1 above but this should only be set it and forget it, quickly click what you can fit on the screen, and overview of your devices per room. Don't spend a lot of time navigating around. Just get any other tablet at that point.5) Highly specific apps. The apps on it are lackluster. Have some really cool specific idea? You won't be able to do it or it'll end up being bad. You likely won't be able to do exactly what you want, only as I mentioned very very very basic things.__________________THE REALLY BAD, DEFINITELY DON'T BUY:1) Device groups. Currently not supported. If you "favorite" a group of smart devices, it doesn't display it and you can pretty much only do one device at a time, with the "group" being the entire group like "Living Room." This was almost a deal-breaker for me, hopefully they add it later, but I've since found some workarounds for me specific use case. But I wanted to group four mart lights in a room, per room, and have it all display under favorites and could not do that.2) Smooth tablet experience. Nope, this is going to feel like a really cheap tablet because it is a really cheap tablet. You're going to have to be patient and wait one second or maybe even two for some things, and you'll see it stutter once in a while. This is still miles better than anything else like it that's meant to go on your wall. But probably one of the worst if you're comparing it to an iPad or high-end Samsung tablet.__________________The Screen:Feels like a really cheap tablet, but they make it work for what it is. The size could have been bigger but honestly then it'd look weird and not like a wall panel. I like it, I just wish there was some more customizability (there isn't really.)The Audio:Again, feels like a really cheap tablet or laptop.The Design:Works out for being wall-mounted. I like the big bezel.Portability:No. Almost none. Do not expect to unplug this and move it around.The Software:Needs some work but it's not as terrible as people make it out to be. I've noticed a few minor bugs like arming my Ring if a device needs a bypass gets it stuck with no error, just loading. Smart thermostat (Nest) if you try to set it to let's say 72 to 73, it will error out vaguely when you should remember that you need a bigger gap between the low and high number. Cameras take a bit to load but they also do that on the apps in any case. It'll only get better from here.The Cost:I wish it would have been closer to $100, but hey, I bought it at full price because I saw the value. If you do not see the value, do not buy it, you'll be disappointed. This is the type of product that's simultaneously worth $50 and $500.
K. Murphy –
What all the negative reviewers are MISSING, and what the HUB really is.
Okay, lets get the obvious out of the way. Is the Echo Hub what it could be, should be, or will be? Thatâs a big NO!Is it what it is?, Yes, and that seems to be what people are missing. Almost without exception the early purchasers of the Hub are the techies that have already automated part or all of their home using some combination of devices that include the Amazon ecosystem. They are intimate with every function, switch, routine, and process. They can almost Grunt and their home responds.Each of the early adopters were looking for a Next-Level panel control. Itâs true, the current options, including converting various tablets for wall mount and cobbling together various shortcuts and apps to âactâ as a central hub are lacking. Woefully so. Worse, is using the wide variety of apps on a phone or tablet to run their operation. My own system has devices from 8 manufacturers, each happily pushing their own app at me. Itâs a pain for me, and impossible for my spouse.The Echo Hub had – and has – the potential to be this device, but it is completely lacking in capability, customization, and next level function. So to almost every reviewer, it falls woefully short of their expectations.I get itâ¦kind of. See, Iâm that guy too, and had high expectations that this was next-level tech that would boost my Smarthome to the next level. I hit the product page at least weekly for the last four months, eagerly anticipating it going live. When it finally dropped, it fell short of my lofty expectations, soâ¦complain, complain and slam it in the reviews.Okay, we know what it isnât.HOWEVER, let’s look at what it is. I am the master of my Smarthome domain, and can grunt and have my home respond. Itâs Awesomeâ¦. for me. But my spouse has to yell from the back porch to have me turn on the yard lights. House guests use the bathroom nearly dark, because they donât understand my next level lighting routines. House-sitters wonât come back because they couldnât turn off the music, and on the TV.My home has inadvertently become the coffee table full of remotes from yesteryear where only a precise combinations of buttons would result in the TV playing the source, and audio that was desired. The wrong combination might take hours (and lots of swearing) to reset back to ânormalâ operation. I get it, but itâs a mystery to everyone else.So the Echo Hub is band-aid that really isnât for me, or most of its initial purchasers & reviewers. Itâs actually for my spouse, house guests, and visitors. It lets them interact with my Smarthome creation and be empowered to control their environment. Not only do they not notice the inherent limitations of the Echo Hub, they marvel at itâs capabilities, power, and ease of use. Go figure.It will force me to get better at groups, routines, and favorites in the Alexa ecosystem, and Iâd say in about a week Iâll have it fully tuned, FOR THEM!, Not me.So, once I got over my own disappointment, I realized that while what I wanted at this juncture, itâs what I needed. Not next level, but empowering additional users to interact with this level and the current capabilities of my home.Iâm disappointed, I expected more, and Iâll take two more please.Lastly, I want to address a couple of other common complaints.â8 inches is too small.â Well, you ordered an 8â device, you colossal idiot. Thatâs like buying a 6-pack and complaining that there arenât 7 bottles. It is what it is – precisely what it was advertised to be.âIts too expensive.â Amazon has spoiled us by having advertising support the actual hardware costs of development and manufacturing of all their devices to date. Most reports indicate that the Alexa division inside Amazon is under-performing and not overly profitable. Thats kind of what you get when you sell a $24 Echo Dot, which is a marvel at voice recognition and cloud powered user response, and then wager Iâll order tons of stuff from Amazon via that portal. I wonât. (Ever? Nope. I would never order a single thing by voice. Weâve all seen the Amazon product listings that show 1 item for $14 and 2 for only $43. If listings ever become less deceptiveâ¦maybe. But itâs a hard NO for now.)The Echo Hub has no advertising, so far. This means the device has to sell for development costs, plus manufacturing costs plus margin. You know, the traditional business model of a product. While it is costly for an Amazon device, a similar product from Apple would run $750 – $1,000. Get over it. Boggles my mind that people pay an amount, and then complain about the amount when the purchasing is entirely within their control. Just return it.âThe speakers suck.â This is interesting. When playing around with the device, I accidentally figured out how to watch a video, and I have to admit that I thought the sound sounded decent. Not noticeably better or worse than the Ipad Mini, of approximately the same screen size. However, the Echo Hub is essentially a remote control for other people to interact with your smart home. Best speakers on a remote control that Iâve ever heard. The people complaining about the speakers no doubt have awesome speakers, surround systems, and audio throughout their home, they and others can now initiate music on those devices via the Hub. Frankly I couldnât care less about the speaker quality on a wall mounted 8â screen. If Iâm ever standing in a hallway, facing an 8â screen and watching a movie, SHOOT ME!Again, I understand why people are underwhelmed. The Echo Hub isnât what it could be, should be, or likely will be. Just admit it right now, itâs not for you. But itâs a wonderful gift to your spouse, roommates, house guests, etc. who are frustrated by YOUR Smarthome. Maybe theyâll like it enough to actually encourage you to purchase the next level device when it drops.