Echo Hub 8: Smart Home Control Panel with Alexa Integration – Ultimate Home Automation Solution

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 […]

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Echo Hub 8: Smart Home Control Panel with Alexa Integration – Ultimate Home Automation Solution
Echo Hub 8: Smart Home Control Panel with Alexa Integration – Ultimate Home Automation Solution

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Introducing the Echo Hub 8 Smart Home Control Panel with Alexa Integration – the ultimate solution for seamless smart home control. This innovative device combines cutting-edge technology with user-friendly design to revolutionize the way you interact with your home.

With the Echo Hub 8, you can effortlessly control all your smart devices with just a few simple voice commands. Thanks to Alexa integration, you can easily adjust your thermostat, turn on your lights, or even lock your doors without lifting a finger. The intuitive touchscreen display provides quick access to all your connected devices, making it easier than ever to manage your smart home ecosystem.

But the Echo Hub 8 is more than just a control panel – it’s a hub of connectivity that brings all your devices together in one convenient location. With support for a wide range of smart home products, including lights, cameras, and security systems, the Echo Hub 8 offers unparalleled compatibility and flexibility.

In addition to its advanced features, the Echo Hub 8 also offers a range of benefits to enhance your smart home experience. With its sleek design and compact size, it seamlessly blends into any home decor, while its robust construction ensures long-lasting durability. Plus, with regular software updates and ongoing support from the manufacturer, you can rest assured that your Echo Hub 8 will always be up-to-date and fully functional.

Overall, the Echo Hub 8 Smart Home Control Panel with Alexa Integration offers exceptional value to customers looking to simplify and enhance their smart home experience. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast or a busy professional, this device is sure to streamline your daily routine and make your home smarter, more efficient, and more convenient than ever before. Upgrade to the Echo Hub 8 today and take your smart home to the next level.

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Specification: Echo Hub 8: Smart Home Control Panel with Alexa Integration – Ultimate Home Automation Solution

Power requirements

Compatible with alternative USB-C PD power accessories. Power supply must comply with USB PD protocol and support both 5V/2.4A and 9V/3A ratings.

Power over Ethernet

Supports PoE with compatible USB-C converter. Requires IEEE 802.3at/PoE+/Type2 or IEEE 802.3bt /PoE++/Type 3 support.

Included in the box

Echo Hub, power adapter (12.5W) and 6 ft. (1.8m) cord (white), wall mount, anchors, screws, mounting template, and quick start guide. Setup requires internet via wifi or ethernet. Device can be wall mounted (electric drill required) or placed on a stand (sold separately). Device not intended for handheld or portable use.

Display

8” touch screen with 1280 x 800 resolution

Audio

Pair of top ported full range speakers, with stereo playback

Sensors

Passive infrared (PIR) sensor for proximity detection, ambient light sensor (ALS)

Wifi connectivity

Dual-band wifi supports 802.11a/b/g/n/ac wifi networks. Does not support connecting to ad-hoc or peer-to-peer wifi networks.

Bluetooth connectivity

Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming from your mobile device to Echo Hub or from Echo Hub to your Bluetooth speaker. Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected Bluetooth speakers. Hands-Free Profile (HFP) not supported. Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes not supported.

Smart Home Device Compatibility

Compatible with WiFi and Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh devices, as well as Zigbee, Thread, and Matter devices as a controller only. Visit the help page to troubleshoot compatible devices.

Amazon Sidewalk

A shared network that helps compatible devices work better at home and beyond the front door. If wifi is lost, Sidewalk enables certain devices to stay connected. Also, Sidewalk helps devices like water sprinklers and pet locators work over longer distances. Sidewalk uses a small portion of your internet bandwidth to provide these benefits to you and your neighbors via Sidewalk Bridges (participating Echo and Ring devices), and is turned on for your device unless you have previously turned off the setting. You can turn off Sidewalk at any time. Learn more about Sidewalk.

System requirements

Echo Hub comes ready to connect to your internet via wifi or ethernet. The Alexa app is compatible with Fire OS, Android, and iOS devices and also accessible via your web browser. Supported operating systems.

Set up technology

Amazon WiFi simple setup enables customers to connect smart devices to their wifi network in a few easy steps. WiFi simple setup is another way Alexa is always getting smarter. Learn more about Frustration-Free Setup.

Processor

MediaTek MT 8169 A

Size

7.9"W x 5.4"H x 0.6"D (202 mm x 137mm x 15mm)

Weight

12.9 ounces (365 grams). Actual size and weight may vary by manufacturing process.

Warranty and service

1-year limited warranty and service included. Optional 1-year, 2-year, and 3-year extended warranty available for U.S. customers sold separately. Use of Echo Hub is subject to these terms found here.

Privacy features

Wake word technology, streaming indicators, microphone off button, the ability to view and delete your voice recordings, support for Ring’s End-to-End Encryption feature that provides End-to-End Encrypted Ring video (coming soon) on your Echo Hub, and more. Visit the Alexa Privacy Hub to explore how Alexa and Echo devices are designed to protect your privacy.

Accessibility features

To enable features that personalize Alexa to your abilities, go to Settings → Accessibility. • Tap to Alexa enables access to Alexa via touch, instead of speech, through on-screen tiles or a keyboard, including the ability to save your favorite actions. • Adaptive Listening provides customers more time to finish speaking before Alexa responds. • Preferred Speaking Rate enables customers to control how fast or slow Alexa speaks. • Alexa Captioning, Call Captioning, and Closed Captioning provide text captions in any mode for supported content. • VoiceView screen reader enables access for customers who are blind or visually impaired. • Screen Magnifier enables customers to zoom in/out, and pan around the screen. • Notify When Nearby will play notification sounds when you’re detected near your Echo device. • Kindle Read Aloud will have Alexa read your Kindle books aloud. • Real Time Text enables customers to type live text in a video call. • Alexa Accessibility features also include settings for Color Inversion, Color Correction, Request Sound and more.

Language

Alexa speaks English and Spanish.

Alexa Skills and features

Alexa makes your life easier, more meaningful, and more fun by letting you voice control your world. Alexa can help you get more out of the things you already love and discover new possibilities you've never imagined. Discover and learn what Alexa can do.

Software Security Updates

This device receives guaranteed software security updates until at least four years after the device is last available for purchase as a new unit on our websites. Learn more about these software security updates. If you already own an Amazon Echo, visit Manage Your Content and Devices for information specific to your device.

Service Availability

Certain services and skills are subject to change or withdrawal at any time, may not be available in all areas and languages, and may require compatible devices. Certain skills and services may require subscription or other fees.

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  1. Michael Lawson

    Okay, lets get the obvious out of the way. Is the Echo Hub what it could be, should be, or will be? That’s 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. It’s true, the current options, including converting various tablets for wall mount and cobbling together various shortcuts and apps to “act” 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. It’s 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 it…kind of. See, I’m 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, so…complain, complain and slam it in the reviews.

    Okay, we know what it isn’t.

    HOWEVER, let’s look at what it is. I am the master of my Smarthome domain, and can grunt and have my home respond. It’s Awesome…. 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 don’t understand my next level lighting routines. House-sitters won’t come back because they couldn’t 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 “normal” operation. I get it, but it’s a mystery to everyone else.

    So the Echo Hub is band-aid that really isn’t for me, or most of its initial purchasers & reviewers. It’s 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 it’s 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 I’d say in about a week I’ll 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, it’s what I needed. Not next level, but empowering additional users to interact with this level and the current capabilities of my home.

    I’m disappointed, I expected more, and I’ll take two more please.

    Lastly, I want to address a couple of other common complaints.
    “8 inches is too small.” Well, you ordered an 8” device, you colossal idiot. That’s like buying a 6-pack and complaining that there aren’t 7 bottles. It is what it is – precisely what it was advertised to be.

    “Its too expensive.” 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 I’ll order tons of stuff from Amazon via that portal. I won’t. (Ever? Nope. I would never order a single thing by voice. We’ve all seen the Amazon product listings that show 1 item for $14 and 2 for only $43. If listings ever become less deceptive…maybe. But it’s 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.

    “The speakers suck.” 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 I’ve 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 couldn’t care less about the speaker quality on a wall mounted 8” screen. If I’m ever standing in a hallway, facing an 8” screen and watching a movie, SHOOT ME!

    Again, I understand why people are underwhelmed. The Echo Hub isn’t what it could be, should be, or likely will be. Just admit it right now, it’s not for you. But it’s a wonderful gift to your spouse, roommates, house guests, etc. who are frustrated by YOUR Smarthome. Maybe they’ll like it enough to actually encourage you to purchase the next level device when it drops.

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  2. Michael Lawson

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     It’s well made and the mounting is easy. We had a wall mounted phone in the kitchen that we weren’t using the bracket included with the hub fits perfectly.

    The major downside is the issue with the power as others have mentioned it should have an network interface for POE instead of having to buy an $80 splitter plus an injector if you don’t have POE switch.

    Tried cheating by adding a 30ft usb cable extender that didn’t work.

    Setup and software is glitchy too, missed all my groups when first installed had to do a factory reset.

    I found a cheaper POE splitter that someone recommended on Reddit so we’ll see how that goes. I like the unit as far as a 1st gen, but really they should have thought the power issue through.

    Edit: 03/03/2024 The support for POE is very poor as stated the one I tried had the same specs as the one listed by Amazon and didn’t work connected to a POE+ switch.

    Looking at just getting a 12 ft usb-a to usb-c cord and running to a nearby outlet. Unless you buy the recommended splitter I wouldn’t bother trying POE. After using a few days the hub is actually fine.

    Edit 03/17/24 I really wish they thought the power issue through on this. I gave up trying even using longer USB cords. Just ended up fishing the original cord down the wall to an extension cord. Pairing speakers also doesn’t work well they’ll play for awhile then stop.

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