The Best Smart Devices to Pair With Amazon's Alexa!

These are the best Alexa devices 2022, and they are all Amazon must haves (or what you call Amazon finds) when you're building a smart home or home automation system with Amazon Alexa at the forefront. These are the devices you'll pair with an Echo, Echo Show, Fire TV Stick, Fire Tablet, or other Alexa based device.

I'll probably have to make a part 2 of this video, as it's hard to cover the best smart home devices for Alexa in just one top 5 (or top 6 in this case) video.

Products from today's video:

Timecodes for today's video:
00:00 - With the Flick of a Button
1:06 - The Best Smart Home Products With Alexa
1:25 - A Smart Home System You've Never Heard of
3:23 - I Use This Most Often For Smart Lighting With Amazon Alexa
4:35 - This is the Best Smart Lighting With Alexa
5:23 - A Unique Set of Smart Gadgets
6:35 - The Best Cameras and Security With Alexa
8:12 - Sneaky Good WiFi With Alexa

Thanks for watching, and Don't Hate, Automate.

Brian

[TheWolfHound]

I love the concept of the flic buttons, but they are prohibitively expensive for just a simple button. I wish there was a cheaper option, a zigbee button that connects and directly works with the Echo gen 4.

[edrosiak]

Another informative video, thanks. I use Amazon devices and you just gave me some more ideas.

[MS-rsle]

Great videos EERO mesh system is excellent I have one for a month now and am very impressed Easy easy app to setup Thanks for your videos great job

[faengelm]

Great review! Thanks for pointing at the many products that interface with Alexa Routines. Please do Part 2 as you mentioned.

[ZetruH]

idk, if I have to download other apps, it means the device is not really prepared to connect with alexa, I rather have devices that directly connect with alexa

[merrickbryan]

Thank you for bringing up the switchbot response time concern. I love switchbot... its my only qualm with using thier products.

My curtains are all on routines and automated so no real issue there. My TV'S and sound bar respond right away with IR blaster. I can voice command turn on my office computer from bed when I wake up for working at home with a button pusher.

Only issue! The button pushers and curtains are SUPER slow to respond to voice command and can't take up to 15-20 seconds to respond 🤣

[PaulieDetmurds]

Interesting, I never even heard of those products!

[MWDAdventures]

I have a netgear stand alone router and want to jump into mesh. I use alexa and have 5 of them of different generations. Orbiy seems to be the mesh king right now with speed and pairing to 200 devices with 4 bands. IS the eero that much better using alexa integration?

[ashy]

Love the N7 tee shirt 😁 Still my favourite game.

[GetAlongGetAlong]

Am I the only one that think the flick is way to expensive ?!?

[daveschmarder-]

The US post office hasn't hassled about my contact sensor. Maybe you should move your mailbox to the US.

[HughD]

Hey, Brian, you nailed it again. I love the YoLink stuff as there is no better system for leak sensors and you can shut off the water to your house with no electricity or Internet working...try that with anything else. The LoRa enables you to even put a thermometer in a freezer without signal issues. Of course, folks whine about Hue expense, but after trying a LOT of different bulbs I find the Hue system is totally reliable and works well with everyone including Alexa, SmartThings, Hubitat, Home Assistant, and Homekit. I, too, have a couple of the Govee corner lights and love them. A couple of Alexa integrations I like are with the Rachio Irrigation system ("Alexa, water the backyard for 10 minutes"), etc. or use a routine with Rachio and a YoLink outdoor motion sensor, or camera motions to briefly turn on sprinklers to scare deer away who are turning your flowers into a salad bar. I like the iRobot (Roomba) Alexa integration with routines like "Alexa, suck it up, Buttercup" to send it off to clean the kitchen. There are more, of course so keep doing it!!!

[vinhennessy]

In my smart home setup, I use Alexa, Google, Phillips Hue, Samsung, and Wyze products. I find Amazon products are my favorite and easiest to work with.

[Blackdog]

I have the first echo dot that came out, it's still working, but..has anyone else noticed their dot getting that raspy, course sound like old speakers use to get when it had a hole in it? 🤔

[sushreyshrivastava]

Any idea as to why that was made illegal?

[renerioscom]

Great video Brian!!! I think sometimes smart home devices reviews overlook the fact that most people are interested in knowing whether the device can trigger Alexa Routines or not.

[macinman]

Hey Brian, been a while since I've commented on a video. I really haven't gone much beyond smart bulbs for my smart home, and a couple of Amazon Smart Plugs. As I've mentioned to you on Twitter, I have a few devices that have smart home integration, but not so much dedicated smart devices. I'm still watching product videos though to see if I come across things that really would apply to me though, and I would actually use. I always look forward to you videos, even if I don't watch, or comment consistently, there is always something new to learn.

[CPHTT]

When you say GoVee support in alexa I assume they still haven't support using the DIY mode triggered by Alexa routine, isn'tthat correct?

[icedkiller]

I wanted to do the mailbox sensor too rip ahahah I'm from Canada too
So annoying go and check if there's mail

[sougias]

Brian what about Aqara. Do you think it's a viable security system instead of Ring. They have a lot of positive feedback even if they are pushed more towards Homekit