Entryways and offices and living rooms are the prime locations, and the Hub is priced so that you could get a couple and not break the bank. More on that in a second.īut once you see one clean install, you’re going to want one. And if none of that sounds like something you want to deal with, you can just get a Hub and keep it on a counter with a handy stand. You’ve got a number of options to power it - that’s the sort of detail that tidy press images with hidden power cords tend to ignore - so your mileage may vary as to how clean your setup looks. Amazon says it’s easy to install, and I’ll let you try to convince your spouse of that before you try to break into the drywall. The Echo Hub is wall-mountable, and it looks great on a demo wall. A Ring camera feed displayed on the Amazon Echo Hub.
That technology isn’t new - many of the best robot vacuums already do it automatically - but it’s new to Alexa, and it lets you build your smart home setup visually instead of just saying “LAMP2 goes in SPAREROOM” or whatever. Adding AI to Alexa is the brain transplant we’ve all been waiting forĮverything announced at Amazon’s fall 2023 devices eventĪmazon’s Echo family expands with an on-wall hub, smart glasses, and moreĪnd that control gets a good bit smarter - or at least easier to set up - with the new Map View feature, which uses the lidar in an iPhone 12 or newer to scan rooms and build a floor plan.
