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Echo Plus (1st Gen) – With built-in smart home hub, Black

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Echo Plus is a simple way to start your smart home. It has a built-in ZigBee smart home hub, which allows for simple and direct setup of compatible ZigBee lights, locks and more from brands including Philips Hue and others. No additional hub is required.
Echo Plus connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service, to play music, make calls, set timers and alarms, ask questions, check traffic and weather, and more. Just ask.
Just ask for a song, artist or genre from Amazon Music Unlimited, Apple Music, Spotify, iHeartRadio, TuneIn and more. With multi-room music, you can play music on Echo devices in different rooms. Echo can play Audible audiobooks, radio stations, news briefings and read kindle ebooks. Services may require subscriptions or other fees; Bluetooth not supported for multi-room music.
Call or message anyone hands-free who also has an Echo device or the Alexa App. Also, quickly connect to other Echo devices in your home using just your voice.
Dolby processing speakers deliver crisp vocals and extended bass to fill the room with immersive 360 degree audio.
With seven microphones, beam-forming technology and noise cancellation, Echo Plus hears you from any direction-even while music is playing.
Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new features and skills. Just ask Alexa to control compatible smart devices, request an Uber, find a recipe, and more.

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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.”

With a 2.5” downward-firing woofer and 0.8” tweeter powered by Dolby, Echo Plus has crisp highs, deep bass and 360° audio to fill your room with music. You can also listen to audiobooks from Audible, play music from Amazon Music, Spotify, TuneIn and more. With Amazon Music Unlimited, you can search by lyrics, time period or let Alexa pick the music for you. Want to play music on an Echo in another room? With multi-room music, you can tell Alexa to play across your compatible Echo devices (Bluetooth not supported for multi-room music). Tell Alexa to play jazz in the kitchen, 90s pop in the living room, or play the same song downstairs.
Alexa, play relaxing music in the bedroom.

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With a 2.5” downward-firing woofer and 0.8” tweeter powered by Dolby, Echo Plus has crisp highs, deep bass and 360° audio to fill your room with music. You can also listen to audiobooks from Audible, play music from Amazon Music, Spotify, TuneIn and more. With Amazon Music Unlimited, you can search by lyrics, time period or let Alexa pick the music for you.

Want to play music on an Echo in another room? With multi-room music, you can tell Alexa to play across your compatible Echo devices (Bluetooth not supported for multi-room music). Tell Alexa to play jazz in the kitchen, 90s pop in the living room, or play the same song downstairs.

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Alexa, play relaxing music in the bedroom.

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Nissology

Don't bother with the Echo Plus

Reviewed in Australia on 5 September 2018

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Perhaps if you live in the USA, this device will be of use.
But in Sydney, Australia, where I purchased the device and live, it is useless.
Both the device and the app are poorly implemented.
It took no time at all to set up the Google device; I have had the Echo Plus for three days and, still, having trouble with set up. When you ask for weather, a radio station or something else that requires localisation, it produces the weather in Western Australia, a USA radio station unknown to me and, it seems, pop versions of well-known classical pieces.
Yes, I have gone through the set up steps, several times, but no result. I have localised the device using the app on my iPhone, but no good.
I will give it another day and, then, request a return.
Google works fine and with no difficulty
I don't think Amazon took Alexa seriously and neither should we!

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Early Adopter

I don’t live in Queen Anne...

Reviewed in Australia on 20 July 2018

We have a number of Google Home devices, and this was our first foray into the Alexa world. Very impressed with the design. Love the home hub for smart devices built in. Alexa however, is a little dim. She had no idea where I lived, until I told her twice (via the almost hidden app settings) that I did not live in Queen Anne, Washington State. I may soon though, as the weather there sounds phenomenal!! Anyway, finally able to reconfigure, and it is starting to get better.

9 people found this helpful

Dikkybee

Sound is much better quality than the dot it replaced

Reviewed in Australia on 6 June 2018

I gave it 5 due to quality of the product. Sound is much better quality than the dot it replaced, not as good as a set of proper stereo speakers but volume is much louder and clearer at higher volume. As I am in Australia I would give it a 3-4 for usability compared to the American commands and uses but it turns the lights on and off really nicely but in Oz we seem to pay way more for the same switches than overseas for the same product. Using it mainly for light control and single power point but works really well and the ease of setup is great. As more products become available will add more switches and abilities but really happy at this stage and can only get better.

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Greg

Good sound, but not as intuitive and I expected

Reviewed in Australia on 6 August 2018

Good sound, but not as intuitive and I expected. Very disappointing that I cant connect my Samsung smart TV as the Samsung 'Smart Things' ap is not supported by Amazon Echo in Australia although its available in other locations. Also, while I can connect to my Samsung sound bar to play Google music through Echo Plus, I cant pair with the TV and soundbar to use Echo Plus as a rear speaker together with the sound bar. Also I wish it had bilingual capabilities, It only recognizes one language at a time. My wife who is Japanese would like to use it in Japanese, be we cant use both English and Japanese together.

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Lindsay

Dreadful setup

Reviewed in Australia on 31 October 2018

I didn't like that I had to connect my phone to an Amazon network rather than Alexa identifying available networks, being given my password, and simply connecting. This is what all other devices do. Once connected to the Amazon network there was no way of getting onto my network and thus onto the net. It's the most unintuitive device I've ever bought. The app was quite useless as there was no screen telling me what to do once I had my phone and Alexa connected via the Amazon network (and thus my phone disconnected from the net). Without passthrough to my telco all Alexa did was bleat that it had no net access. Duh! Amazon's help screens mentioned screens that simply did not appear on my app.

Andy

Good sound with smart features .. but will you use the ZigBee Bridge ?

Reviewed in Australia on 4 July 2019

I originally bought the Echo Plus for the built-in ZigBee bridge, rather than the speaker quality for music - but I'll review both.

ZigBee - for those unsure what this it, basically, it’s a built in "hub" that allows you to connect a variety of Smart Home Devices that otherwise require their own separate Hub - example; Philips Hue. With the built in ZigBee, you can simply by pass other provider Hubs and connect directly using the Echo Plus - great! However, by doing this you potentially cannot use the providers own APP, everything has to be controlled through the Alexa App. While it is nice to have everything in one place, you can potentially loose some functionality. Using Hue as the example, you do not get the nice selection of 16 million colours in the Alexa App, you get only the basic RGB colours (white, purple, red, blue, orange .etc.). For some, this might be enough BUT why spend the money on Hue if you can't have full colour access ...

Sound - surprisingly good! If you want a compact, decent looking speaker for general listening, you can't go wrong. While the bass will not blow you away, the sound is well balanced and the vocals come through clear. I have listened to variety of artists using the Echo Plus (from Norah Jones through to Rufus Du Sol) and the speaker handled these tracks well but did not shake the room. Being able to say "Alexa, change track .etc." is also a nice touch - no need to get the phone out.

Overall, this works perfectly for those smaller spaces or someone looking for a compact, smart speaker. Personally, I would not buy this for the ZigBee Bridge, just the Smart features. If bought again, I would go for the Amazon Echo (new version) and buy the Hue Bridge separately (which I have now done). But for general listening, you won’t be disappointed.

Worth noting, you can now set Alexa devices to use other speakers as a default for music (such a Sonos) - for example, I have a Dot in my office which is set up to use a Sonos Play3 as its default speaker (without the need for a line in). When I say "Alexa, play Spotify", the music starts playing from the Play3 - perfect! This way, I can buy a bunch of Dots that are a lot cheaper, but use my current Sonos set up as the main speakers - no need to say “play in office” .etc

If you would like any help with this setup, please feel free to contact me on Amazon - happy to help with Smart Home Set up :)

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nswfugitive

I agree with the other comments regarding the limited number ...

Reviewed in Australia on 16 May 2018

I agree with the other comments regarding the limited number of skills available compared to the States. Example - The Weather Underground skill should be available worldwide because the Weather Underground is available - my weather station reports to it on a constant basis - so someone in the USA can use to eh Echo Plus to access my data but I can't - makes no sense.

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