Steve
7 de octubre de 2025
Exactly what I needed to get my smart home working
I have a tiny apartment, so I figured one Echo 4 would be enough to power a few sets of Matter shades. What I didn't realize is that despite the small amount of square footage, signals don't love traveling through doors, around walls, and between rooms.This Echo Hub was exactly what I needed. As with all Echo devices, set up was a snap. I am getting to that point where I've run out of names on their list (Echo, Alexa, Computer, Ziggy, Amazon) so I've resorted to giving Echo devices in different rooms the same, George Foreman-style.My shades are pretty cheap ones made by a no-name manufacturer who I don't think is even in business anymore, but the Alexa app immediately recognized them and added them to my device list. Now, I have a routine to open them at my wake-up time and shut them at sundown.While it works like any other Echo device, I appreciate that they focused on making it a centralized smart home hub. The UX isn't the best or most intuitive, but it's "good enough" for allowing me to access each room and control lights, air conditioners, air filters, cameras, and more. It's cool to be able to mount it on a wall in a central place so I can control different devices without having to go into the app on my phone. It's got a sleek look that's just the right size and color for my off-white walls. The audio quality isn't the best, but of course that's not it was built for—I do have it controlling the music playlist for every other Echo around the house.It is a bit pricier than I'd hoped for, but it is more affordable than buying a new Echo 4 or Echo Show just for the Zigbee, Matter, and Thread Border Routers. And "Like New" really meant "Like New"—there wasn't a scratch on the unit, and it was indistinguishable from a brand new one.Ver másVer menos
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