Everything the Amazon Echo Hub Can Do

Such a thorough review - best I've seen yet, thank you!

Super detailed and you know I've been waiting for this. Great review!

"Dinner will be ready in an hour." "... WHAT?" "And now they know dinner will be ready."

Impressive, great coverage👍

Amazon should have made this years ago, would have been nice with a bigger screen too...Nice explanation and overview Brett 🙂

Thank you for muting when you say Alexa 👏🏼 kudos to you sir! Awesome review

I was looking into reviews before purchasing and I’ve seen several videos but yours is the best! Thank you just purchased mine and subscribed as well😊

I will buy and use this for one reason and one reason alone. This is a great way to answer the ring doorbell without your phone and not having to move too much. In my house where my couch is located, there’s no table or power supply near by. I also have a glass front door. So, if my phone is in another room or my wife is home alone and the doorbell rings there’s no way to look to see who’s at the door without the person seeing you. But, I can mount this and grab power from a wall light switch. And if someone rings the doorbell I/we can answer the doorbell through the hub and the person won’t see us or know if we are home or not. To me, that’s worth the price alone.

Great video! I just picked one up almost 2weeks ago now and really like it. With the latest updates this works GREAT with Ring alarm and has now added a on-screen keypad for the alarm that I have seen from early videos that was missing. If your device works or links to the Alexa eco system it will be controllable with this hub. The key is setting up GROUPS in the Alexa app which makes the Echo Hub much more sorted and usable IMO. It's still an early product but a few tings I'd like to see is battery percentage on devices and more control of other devices (color settings) beyond routines and power usage from devices that measure this as well as temp/humidity sensors and Smoke/CO2 alarms linked to Alexa. I use SmartThings, Wyze, SmartLife, Hue, Switchbot, Ring alarm, and a slew of other Zigbee products linked to Alexa through skills, bluetooth, and WiFi and all these devices work great on the Hub. Overall pretty happy and with Ring alarm with a GROUP I can see the status of ALL my sensors and alarm state in ONE view. The Camera, Notepad, and Calendar widgets on the Home screen gives me FAR more information quicker than using the Alexa app or trying to stumble through menus on an Echo Show device or Fire TV device. If Amazon is serious (which I think they are) this Hub will only get better with future updates. Hopefully my lengthy reply here will let others know this is NOT a gimmick device and is a TRUE Smart home hub with NO coding needed or "special" drivers and other workarounds to view on control your devices all quicker than the Alexa app with NO migration to Home Assistant, Hubitat or others.

Honestly this is the first Amazon device I won’t be getting ☹️kinda disappointed tbh. Great informational video as always Brett!

I look at a couple of reviews this thee most detailed i just placed my order Thanks

One of Amazon’s big wigs already said charging for Alexa services would almost certainly happen in the future. I want to know if it is going to show advertisements as my Alexa Show devices do. I find that annoying and may move me to go back to a non display device.

I'm only really interested in the camera-viewing capabilities, mainly the four-cams-on-one-page view, and Ii like the idea that it can show cams from different brands. But because it's a bit too 'Equalizer-style drama/ totally paranoid layman' to have a multi-camera display on all the time in your lounge, my question is: can I leave it on that view by default, but the screen remains blank until such time as I wave my hand in front of the device to get the screen to light-up and show the cam feeds?

Extremely helpful video. I've been waiting for this and just placed my order. Was able to trade in an old echo device for a $5 giftcard and 20% off towards the hub.

I have nest cameras. Would this work or should I use my pixel tablet with some type of app for this?

I wonder if it can call.

Use an old works box with cover that allows for multiple cables…it would look more professional and support dongle inside box.

This helped me a lot I just bought one today❤

Finally. Ordered it 2 hours ago!!!!

Free service until Jeff wants a new yatch. Like prime video, it was free and now needs to pay to watch ads free