Alexa, open Chris' garage door.
Ok.
What's up guys!
It's Chris Majestic here with Majestechs.
Today we're going to be looking at the Amazon Echo.
So if you don't know, the Amazon Echo is a Bluetooth speaker and it has Amazon's personal
assistant, Alexa, built into it.
Now it's really really easy to set this thing up.
You're just going to download the Alexa app and walk through the setup process.
It's super easy.
As far as the design, it's just a really basic cylinder.
It has 2 buttons on the top.
One button is a mute button and the other button is an action button.
It has an array of 7 microphones and 2 internal speakers.
Although it doesn't look like it, the top actually spins as a volume knob.
The microphone array is very impressive.
This thing can pick up your voice from all the way across the other side of the house
or even on a different floor.
So the trigger word is going to be "Alexa".
So you just say "Alexa" followed by whatever question you have.
You could say "Alexa, who is Majestechs?" even though she's not going to know.
(crickets chirping)
Chris: Alexa, how's the traffic?
Alexa: "The fastest route takes about 39 minutes via i895 and i95".
Now it does work for ordering things through Amazon but it doesn't always work that well.
Sometimes it doesn't get the exact product you want but it gets pretty close.
And you can ask it to play music.
By default, it's going to play music from Amazon Music but it does connect with Pandora
and Spotify.
Chris: Alexa play some music.
Alexa: Here's a Prime station you might like: Bryson Tiller
(Music Playing)
Now this Bluetooth speaker does get pretty loud;
loud enough that Alexa can't hear you screaming over the music.
(Music Playing)
(Music Playing) Chris: Alexa stop!
(Music still playing) Chris: Alexa stop!!!!!
Chris: Good grief.
It's not as good as something like Jambox or another big bluetooth portable speaker
but it does work fairly well and you can even play local radio stations if you want.
Skills allow it to work with other devices: Smart hubs like SmartThings, Wink, different
smart cameras.
All kinds of different devices that you can connect to it.
Chris: Alexa, Set the kitchen light to 15%.
Alexa: Okay
Chris: Alexa, turn on the living room TV.
Alexa: Okay
Chris: Alexa, set the downstairs temperature to 70 degrees.
Alexa: Setting downstairs A/C to 70.
Chris: Alexa, turn the house alarm on "Stay".
Alexa: Okay
(Alarm Beeping)
So I actually have my Harmony Smart Control Hub
connected to my SmartThings Hub and my SmartThings Hub is connected to Alexa.
So the activities and the switches from the other smart hubs show up as switches in the
Alexa app so you can just say "Hey, Alexa do this" and it will do it and Amazon is constantly
updating it to make it better and answer questions better and things like that.
As far as things I can say I don't really like, the only things that I really don't
like is that it has a proprietary cord so it's not like a mini-usb so if you lose that
cord you have to order another one through them.
I also don't like that you can't really ask it really fun questions like you can with Siri.
It holds some but it's definitely not as many.
And the last thing is that I don't really think it's worth $180.
I think it should be a little bit cheaper.
I think the $130 I paid on Prime Day is more of a fitting price.
Alright guys, that's it for this review.
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Chris: Alexa, who's the man?
Alexa: You da man.
(laughing)
What are you waiting for?!!
Do it!
Just....do it!!!!!
Yes you can!!
Just do it!