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Amazon has unveiled new changes coming to all of its items Wall mounted displaythe 8-inch echo hub ($180). Axis, focus on Smart home controlnow contains new graphics and much deeper customization, Amazon announced Thursday.
During normal operation, the Echo Hub typically displays controls for the devices you use most often, including those that use Matter, Zigbee, Thread, and Bluetooth connections (as long as they’re working With Alexa). But you can also move these boxes around, make them bigger or smaller, and you can choose Specific devices To add it to the home screen for easy access.
An Amazon representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
While devices are now automatically grouped by room and function, you can manually create your own groups to add a series of controls to them. This includes routines you may have set up in advance.
Another innovation adds more fine-grained controls, which is more useful than it might seem. For example, you can now access support Smart light bulbsallowing you to dim it from 1% to 100% and choose specific colors.
Echo Hubs can now provide in-depth video information and answers using Alexa Plus and Ring AI.
If you are Use Alexa Plus (Free with Amazon Prime or $20 per month) and You have a Ring AI subscription For the ring Security camerasthe Echo Hub can also provide a summary of camera events and videos of related actions (for example, packages delivered) for up to four feeds at the same time. You can also search security videos directly on the Hub using Alexa voice commands.
These seem like convenient changes for the Echo Hub, but I’m looking forward to them To Echo Show devices like minealso. Echo programs have traditionally had a broader focus than smart home controls, such as displaying video calls or TV shows, but this new customizable screen looks better than the news and ads that My Echo offers instead. Hopefully Amazon will push similar features to other Echo devices.
