In addition to the new Amazon Echo Show released today and discussed here , Amazon also updated the mobile apps to enable messaging and calling features between devices: About Alexa-to-Alexa Calling and Messaging Alexa-to-Alexa calling and messaging helps you keep in touch with friends and family …

1) Someone else has a cell phone but has not installed the echo app. You can now use your echo device to call them by saying their phone number or if they’re in your cell phone contact book you can use the contact name. This will also work if they have a landline. 2) someone else has a cell phon…

[image] femwitjava: Thank you JD for taking the time. I want to specific in a few questions of how it works and enhancements. The house intercom. Yes, I think it is a universal consensus that this is a great feature. A. How do you feel about having all devices ring in the house? Getting the …

Thank you for your feedback. Sounds like we have some very different experiences.

[image] femwitjava: Thank you for your feedback. Sounds like we have some very different experiences. I’m using an iPhone, if that makes any difference. If you have any questions about it, I would just contact Amazon support. I’ve found them very helpful. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo…

You can go ahead and localize your Echos by assigning them different accounts. That will allow what you want, though it has downsides. Btw I get what you want and why. I want similar things, and have posted about it here and shared it with their programming team. But I grasp that this is not an all…

Poll time… [image] [POLL] Alexa Custom Skills Projects & Stories Are Alexa custom skills obsolete? A custom skill must use an invocation phrase in order to connect to Alexa Voice Services. For many of us, using Alexa directly sounds weird, but when you add an invocation w…

When I 1st set this up it rang to every dot in the house. Then the other day the wife was in the baby’s room and answered the call there. The next time I called the house it rang in the baby’s room and not in any others. It was not until I unplugged every dot and plugged them back in that they start…

[image] jasonrwise77: As long as I can communicate between the 2 one in living room one in bedroom, I will be happy. Your use case of a nursery is exactly the DROP IN feature of the SHOW. All of your devices should “ring” in your account if you say call home on one of your devices. Just to d…

So the 2 shows will be able to communicate no problem even being on the same account?

yes, that is the idea of the “drop in” This is a feature that will have to be “authorized” but when you call on the device in the nursery there is a 10 second opt out, and the video will go live without an “accept” command. “Alexa, drop in on the nursery” and you should see your angel (sleeping hope…

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