In old-style terminology, “whole house intercom” means all the devices in the house play the announcement. That’s what is currently available with Alexa, and that is what we use.
Device to device calling is not available as yet unless the separate devices are on separate Amazon accounts.
But for our usage, having all the devices ring at the same time is what we want, we would use this when we don’t know where the person is in the house.
.2. I would like feedback as to your contacts lists in the companion app.
When a contact was added to your Alexa app, and that contact had multiple phone numbers in your phones contact book, did multiple numbers pull into your contact list? (IE: home, mobile, office)?
Do you like that? Do you think only the associated number with the Alexa calling should pull in?
Does it confuse the user that only the number associated can be used (you can’t call their office from Alexa currently) IE: call John mobile, or call John work.
It doesn’t work that way. The only number that it picks up is the one that is associated with the other person’s Amazon account. It doesn’t pull in multiple numbers for them. So you are calling the other person’s Amazon account, you were not calling any of their phones directly. Nobody in my extended family has found that confusing.
The Blocking feature. Is it confusing that a name appears more than once in the Blocking section - but it is associated to ONE number only? IE: Mary only has one phone number, she shows up twice in your block list, one as Mary and one as Mary’s home? Does the user know the difference of in app calling and home/ calling from a device.
I’m not able to follow this because I don’t think that’s how it works. Again, there’s just one number associated with the person from Alexa’s point of view, that’s the number of their Amazon account.
I have four numbers for my brother in my phone’s contact book: home landline, personal mobile, work mobile, and office landline. But his amazon account is associated only with his personal mobile, and that’s the only number that’s available to block.
.3. Call placed from. If you are in a household with multiple users(which sounds like you are JD, but I don’t know your account settings) when outbound calls are placed from different users, what is the receiver hearing as the to who is calling. Is there “mis-matches” as there are no prompts and directs when making a call or leaving message for someone. IE: “Alexa, call mom” “ok, you want to call mom is that right?” vs. Who is this call from (within the household account) John or Mary?
At the present time, all the calls will appear to come from one user name, the one associated with the Amazon account. We do have a separate echo device that is on my housemate’s Amazon account, and if he makes calls from that one it says it’s coming from him. All the other devices are on my account, and a call from any one of them would say it was coming from me even if my housemate was placing a call.