Echo Plus (2nd gen) – Premium sound with a built-in smart home hub - Sandstone Fabric

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Echo Plus has a built-in Zigbee hub to easily setup and control your compatible smart home devices and an improved sound for streaming music.
New premium speakers powered by Dolby play 360° audio with crisp vocals and dynamic bass response.
Ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, find recipes, read the news, check the weather, set alarms, control compatible smart home devices.
Set up your smart home without a separate hub. Ask Alexa to discover Zigbee smart lights, switches and more.
Ask Alexa for a song, artist or genre from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, TuneIn and more. With multi-room music, play music on compatible Echo devices in different rooms. Services may require subscriptions or other fees.
Instantly drop in on other rooms in your home or make an announcement to every room with an Echo. Make calls and send messages between supported Echo devices and the Alexa App.
Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new features and skills, like Fitbit for tracking your fitness, NextThere for planning your commute, Sleep and Relaxation sounds for better sleep, and fun games for the family.
Designed around your privacy - With seven microphones and beamforming technology, Echo Plus hears you from any direction. You can press the microphone off button to electronically disconnect the microphones.

Home Security from Amazon

Link your Ring account to Alexa for hands-free home monitoring so you’ll always know when someone’s there. Enable announcements in the Alexa app to hear alerts on compatible Echo devices when anyone presses your doorbell or triggers Ring’s built-in motion sensors. Then talk to visitors through compatible Echo devices, like Echo Dot or Echo Show, by simply saying “Alexa, talk to the front door.”

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Meet the all-new Echo Plus

Echo Plus features a premium speaker for powerful 360° sound and a built-in Zigbee smart home hub. Just ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, make calls to supported Echo devices or the Alexa App, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more. With the built-in hub, starting your smart home is easy.

The simple way to start your smart home

Echo Plus has a built-in Zigbee hub that connects and controls dozens of smart lights, plugs and more. Just turn on compatible products and say, “Alexa, discover my devices.” Echo Plus will automatically detect and set up those devices so you can control them with your voice. See more at amazon.com.au/simplesetup

Always ready to help

Make your life easier at home. Use your voice to set timers, add items to lists, find recipes and create calendar events and reminders. You can also check the news, weather or traffic. Ask for sports scores, movie times, recipes, restaurant hours or information.

Voice control your music

Echo Plus has a new premium speaker design with Dolby Processing, engineered for high quality audio. Use your voice to ask for any song, artist or genre and play music across multiple Echo devices throughout your home. You can also listen to Audible, podcasts, radio stations and more.

Alexa, play jazz music

Connect with others

Instantly drop in on other rooms in your home or make an announcement to every room with an Echo. Make calls and send messages between supported Echo devices and the Alexa App. Plus, now with Skype calling stay in touch with friends and family in over 150 countries.

Stock up with Alexa

When you are running low on household essentials, Alexa makes it easy to replenish your pantry. You can add everything from batteries to nappies to your Amazon Cart, reorder favourite products from Amazon and ask Alexa the status of your recent Amazon orders.

Alexa has skills

Alexa has thousands of skills and counting. Skills are like apps and help you do more, such as booking an Uber, meditating with Headspace, falling asleep to rain sounds and more. Just say “Alexa, help me get started with skills.”

New skills are being added all the time. Discover them in the skills section of the Alexa app or visit the skills store.

Simple to Set Up & Use

Technical Details

Echo Plus

Size	5.8” x 3.9” x 3.9” (148 x 99 x 99 mm)
Weight	780 grams Actual size and weight may vary by manufacturing process
Wi-Fi connectivity	Wi-Fi required. Dual-band Wi-Fi supports 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 and 5 GHz) networks. Does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.
ZigBee connectivity	Built-in ZigBee smart home hub supports select ZigBee light bulbs, locks, plugs, and in-wall switches.
Bluetooth connectivity	Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming from your mobile device to Echo or from Echo to your Bluetooth speaker. Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected mobile devices. Hands-free voice control is not supported for Mac OS devices. Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes are not supported.
Audio	3.0” (63.5 mm) neodymium woofer and 0.8” (20 mm) tweeter
System Requirements	Echo Plus comes ready to connect to your Wi-Fi. Certain skills and services are subject to change, may not be available in all areas and may require separate subscriptions or other fees. The Alexa App is compatible with Android and iOS devices and also accessible via your desktop browser.

Accessibility Features	The Alexa app and Alexa-enabled products include several features for customers with accessibility needs related to vision, hearing, mobility, and speech. Learn more about Alexa accessibility.
Warranty and Service	Echo Plus is sold with a limited warranty of one year provided by the manufacturer. This Limited Warranty does not restrict or alter any non-excludable statutory consumer protections or rights you may have, including under the Australian Consumer Law. Use of Echo Plus is subject to the terms found here.
Included in the Box	Echo Plus, power adapter (30W) and Quick Start Guide.

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D Carne

Love the concept - just not the limitation aussies are currently experiencing

Reviewed in Australia on 9 November 2018

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You read that this and that can be done with the new Echo Plus 2nd generation but in reality, for australia, it is seriously limited in its capability. If new to smart home setup, ensure you always check aussie sites to see what is actual or not with this product. Hopefully time will be short when we aussies can also experience the FULL wonders of Alexa

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Michele

Good, but not great

Reviewed in Australia on 17 November 2018

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Sound quality is better than the basic Echo, but well short of similar sized speaker systems such as Bose and JBL, and certainly not what I regard as ‘premium’. The Echo Plus smart home hub works well, but it’s Bluetooth ‘pair-ing’ capability is limited to only those Bluetooth devices approved (and sold?) by Amazon. (certain makes of smart plugs, certain makes of speaker systems, etc) I only realised - to my disappointment - that the Echo Plus will not ‘pair’ into my Bose Bluetooth speaker, which I frequently ‘pair’ into my iPhone to listen to music.

10 people found this helpful

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Cannot reccomend the echo plus enough!

Reviewed in Australia on 10 February 2019

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Before purchasing the echo plus I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting it to do all the things it’s said to do. However I was shocked to discover Alexa (the echo plus) does everything it’s described to and so much more! This device has really made life so much easier and it’s also compatible with philips hue lights as described. The echo plus is regularly updated and brings even more amazing features such as games, shopping lists, alarms, controlling lights and air conditioners all with voice activation. The echo plus opens so many doors in technological advancements!

7 people found this helpful

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Jenny V

Amazing Alexa

Reviewed in Australia on 4 January 2019

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I bought this product for my husband for xmas and he was beside himself. He had done a lot of research on what HomePod was the best one for us and Alexa came up trumps in many areas. And she didn't let us down. He was so happy he went out and bought the echo dots so we can have her around the house. Very happy with my purchase and very happy with the prompt delivery especially just before xmas.

9 people found this helpful

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Far better sound

Reviewed in Australia on 7 August 2019

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I own a Gen 1 Echo Plus, along with a bunch of 2nd gen - and one 3rd gen - Echo Dots.

This newer model Plus replaced the old Gen 1 model in our living room, and the old model shifted into the kitchen - these two rooms are adjacent/open to each other, so having them near each other provides a decent sound experience. The newer Plus is noticeably clearer and has more depth in its sound quality when compared to the older Plus.

Other than better sound, the smaller form factor is great, and it's a nice bonus to have a built-in temperature sensor (although I'm not using this for anything right now).

One thing I've had trouble with is room awareness, which was fine before I shuffled the Echos around, but doesn't work at all now - i.e. walking into a room and saying "Alexa, turn the lights on" is met with a "Lights doesn't support that" response instead of her turning on the lights in the room she's in. I've tried a lot of stuff to troubleshoot this - including resetting all of the (Hue) lights and Echos in the house, and deleting/reinstalling all skills - but nothing has fixed it, so I'm at the stage where I'm going to have to reach out to Amazon for support.

Another thing I've had a little trouble with is the Bluetooth connection from my laptop to the newer Plus. This worked fine with the old Plus in the same spot, but it seems a bit flakier now including distorted sounds. My first attempt at a Bluetooth connection with the newer plus coincided with a Windows update, so it could very well be laptop-related rather than a problem with the Plus, but just mentioning it here in case.

Overall we're happy with this purchase, but we do miss the room awareness that installing this Plus seemed to throw out of wack.

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anni

Alexa is fun, a great addition to our family

Reviewed in Australia on 1 January 2019

Verified Purchase

We use this product for music, shopping lists, turning on lights, air conditioning, alarms, a wide range of services. Disappointed that she doesn't sync properly with our other Echo which is why I only gave a 4 star rating. Plus Amazon's grab for cash, we purchased Amazon music but it only works with one Echo; I believe in the same house it should apply to both Echos.

6 people found this helpful

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Abe Sharma

Great update to the Echo plus

Reviewed in Australia on 20 November 2018

Verified Purchase

I find Alexa to be far more capable than Google in doing anything else than pulling web results. The integration with other apps via skills is brilliant, which you currently can’t do with competing smart speakers. For example the AnyList app syncs perfectly with Alexa even though it’s a third party integration. With other smart speakers you are limited to the smart speaker app itself to have the integration you want.

The hardware itself is a far more attractive speaker than the previous gen and sounds much more fuller. Pair 2 of these with an echo sub like I have to get a great audio experience.

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