Amazon Echo Hub - Smart Home Dashboard | My Honest Opinion...

Just got my hands on the Amazon Echo Hub and I'm spilling the beans on everything you need to know. 📢 From unboxing to getting it all set up, I'm taking you through every step, sharing my honest, unfiltered thoughts. This isn't just another review; it's a candid chat about what makes the Echo Hub a hit or a miss for your smart home setup. 🏠💡

Is it the smart home dashboard we've all been waiting for? Or is it just another gadget to add to the pile? I'm breaking down the good, the bad, and the techy in this 12-minute tell-all. Whether you're a seasoned smart home enthusiast or new to the game, you'll want to hear this before making your move.

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[bradkrekelberg]

Yeah, this setup of smart home control would be awesome on the Show 15.

[RicksTechReviews]

It’s good that they are focusing on a dedicated smart home hub, It looks like it still needs some work, hope they improve on it in future generations.

[michaelmaliga]

So the big news is that this can be powered by POE and have a wired ethernet connection. This should be an improvement over the lag you see when trying to use other Echo products as an automation hub. No ads and being able to define the view you see on the home screen when it wakes up as you approach it further distinguish this as an actual automation dashboard and not a general purpose product trying to adapt to an automation role.

[gtrimbl]

I bought three. So far so good. Just what I’ve wanted for years now. Hard wired them for seamless look

[tomgriffin]

I've been waiting for Amazon to bring out a dashboard. I agree with you a 10 or 15 inch version would be better because as someone with a disability I may have difficulty navigating the screen.

[johnszatkowski]

Great video! I've been subscribed to your channel for some time and am really interested in this product. Thanks to your video I will be holding off on buying this until more bugs are worked out and the software is more stable. Since I have and use Ring this will integrate well with my home. Looking forward to your follow-up video on this product.

Thanks!

[Frankr]

Excellent review...I have more than 10 echo devices throughout my house, so interested in this type of a desktop / hub to control my cameras, lights, tv's...etc. I think I am going to hold off on purchasing this version...and look forward to your next review in a month of so later...Thanks again for your review …very helpful.

[lasongablackwell]

I got mines today and so far I like it having everything in 1 place

[miguelprada]

Got mine today. I'm still playing around with it. So far, so good. Which light bulbs do you use with the echo system?

[gtrscort]

Agreed Amazon should bring the to Show 15. Buying the Echo Show 15 is the only Amazon product I regret purchasing.

[karlcx]

still don't understand why this isn't better as an app on an existing device. why is having to walk up to a device with a dangling wire on a wall a better usage experience than flicking between apps on the ipad you already have? not sure i get it at all.

[Markymark]

Steve, if you had multiple nest thermostats, could you control each of them through this?

[CriticAtBest]

Great review! Highly considering purchasing the Hub but wanted to see an in depth review.

I am curious to see how this will work with my Blink cameras. Right now, I have an echo show 8, which works great but I’m wondering - would this hub be able to show live feed when someone rings the blink doorbell or if it detects motion from one of the cameras? That’s one of my biggest problems right now.

Have any advice?

[hs_alduri]

Does it work with vivint cameras ? If no which one do you prefer vivint or ring for security

[alfrede.newman]

Seems basically nice **for a single home** but we like many people have a winter home and a summer home with Ring doorbells in both, Alexa Dots in both, and the Ring app nicely lets you allocate camera's by Location BUT the Alexa app seems to lump all the devices under Home. Am I missing something? Thanks

[armandocastro]

the delay may be due to the response time of the smart devices themselves and the response of the cloud server that controls those devices.

[jamieb]

Got mine here in Canada yesterday. Amazon had asked me if I wanted it linked to my account and I checked off that box. So that would explain why I went to go enter in my WiFi password and it suddenly jumped to saying setup was complete. I was a bit confused with the screen display features. I chose an animated picture with an island, water and stars moving in the sky. But I couldn't get it to come on for some reason. Then I selected to have a dim clock display when it's not in use. A first it worked and then it didn't. When I got up this morning, the animated screen was showing with the clock, date and temperature. So hopefully the dim clock appears at 11pm tonight (which is the schedule I set for it). I am happy it did find my SwitchBot curtains and thermometers as well as my Govee life devices. I need to figure out how to make it show my Blink video doorbell when someone walks up to it. It is a little wonky and I do agree a larger screen would be better. I'm used to setting up my smart device routines in Smartthings so I'll have to go in and change some things in my Alexa app. I also want to see if they have a Smartthings widget.

[PraveshKhandelwal-fx]

Hi Steve! Can you help me setup a smart home? Right now thinking about ring, some kind of thermostat, some kind of smart lock, and then basically a hub. Can you help suggest best package?

[tbaymyhome]

Telus smart home security and Lorex WiFi 4k Camera together for Echo things not bad.

Never get better.

[garethdavies]

It's a decent piece of kit. It's expensive but there's no adverts, so I guess you are paying a bit extra for that. It's already had 2 updates in 2 days, each just over 1gb, so they're hopefully making it a bit smoother and faster.