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Amazon has updated its Echo Hub with a redesigned dashboard and home screen.
These updates make the Amazon Echo Hub easier to customise and quicker to use, plus you can now get smart summaries of video events from your Ring cameras.
Amazon has just upgraded its Echo Hub dashboard, making it quicker and easier to use and customise to your household’s needs. The updates include a redesigned home screen, easier controls, and fun customisations – here’s everything you need to know.
Amazon launched its Echo Hub in 2024, its centralised smart home hub that has all your smart devices, like lights, doorbells, cameras, plugs and more, in one convenient place. I tested it when it first came out and gave it five stars in my Echo Hub review, due to its attractive 8-inch touchscreen display and easy smart home controls and customisations.
Now, Amazon is enhancing these customisations with its refreshed design and interface. Now on the Echo Hub’s dashboard, users can add, remove, resize and rearrange sections, so you can choose which widgets, devices, groups and automations appear to you.
Previously, the Echo Hub would simply show you the devices you use the most on its home screen, but this update gives you more control, and better organisation – and as someone who loves to organise their calendar and devices, this brings me lots of joy!
Users can also group their devices by room and function to create a sleeker-looking dashboard and to trigger schedules much quicker. For example, you can create a group called ‘Bedroom’ and select the different devices you have within that room and what you want them to do. From there, you can add, remove or reorder devices, and easily set up schedules for specific times and events.
What’s better is having these groups there and ready on your Echo Hub dashboard means you can simply tap them to set off your schedule which saves you time scrolling through to trigger things manually. Aside from making your controls easier, Amazon has also made them more detailed.
A great example of this is with your smart lights. Now, you can select your smart light on your Echo Hub and you can precisely adjust their brightness and colours rather than just turning them on or off.
Another handy update is for Ring security camera users who have a Ring AI subscription and use Alexa Plus. If that’s you, you’ll be happy to know that this Echo Hub update means you can now get smart summaries of detected video events on your home screen. Users can also search through their videos on the Echo Hub using Alexa.
The new Echo Hub updates are being rolled out as part of a free software upgrade for existing users.
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