WeMo and Philips Hue products now work with Amazon Echo.
You can now use Echo to switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, turn on the fan or heater while reading in your favorite chair, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie—all without lifting a finger…or even raising your voice.
To get started, connect your WeMo and Hue devices to your home Wi-Fi and name them in their respective app. Then say, “Alexa, discover my appliances.” After Echo’s confirmation, you can control your devices by voice.
Things to try:
“Alexa, turn on the hallway light”
“Alexa, turn on the coffee maker”
“Alexa, dim the living room lights to 20%”
“Alexa, turn on the electric blanket”
“Alexa, turn on the outdoor decorations”
Supported products:
WeMo: Switch, Insight Switch, and Light Switch
Hue: A19, Lux, BR30, Bloom, and LightStrip lights
As always, the Amazon Echo team looks forward to your feedback via the Amazon Echo App and on social media (#AmazonEcho).
@JDRoberts it’s buttery smooth. I have multiple groups and and lights with weird names like “Japanese Lamp” and it works every time. My only complaint is that it does not recognize my cree bulbs connected to my hue bridge.
I was excited to see this as well and it has worked well for me, as well (for the few minutes I’ve tried it, so far). I’m hoping for IFTTT integration for even more flexibility and a path into SmartThings. That may come soon since Amazon recently sent me a survey about the Echo and it specifically asked about IFTTT.
My SmartThings setup does a great job with the lights between sunset and sunrise, but since I don’t have a lux sensor, the lights don’t come on during daylight hours on cloudy days. Being able to tell Echo to turn on lights in those situations is a nice addition.
Just got done removing my 19 GE Link bulbs from the ST hub to add them through the Hue hub for the Echo integration, sooo tedious (especially when I had to remove my existing Hue bulbs, hub, & SmartApps first) but totally worth it!
Got this email from Amazon today for Echo integration. Any further progress integrating ST and Echo?
WeMo and Philips Hue products now work with Amazon Echo.
You can now use Echo to switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, turn on the fan or heater while reading in your favorite chair, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie—all without lifting a finger…or even raising your voice.
To get started, connect your WeMo and Hue devices to your home Wi-Fi and name them in their respective app. Then say, “Alexa, discover my appliances.” After Echo’s confirmation, you can control your devices by voice.
Things to try:
• “Alexa, turn on the hallway light”
• “Alexa, turn on the coffee maker”
• “Alexa, dim the living room lights to 20%”
• “Alexa, turn on the electric blanket”
• "Alexa, turn on the outdoor decorations"
Supported products:
• WeMo: Switch, Insight Switch, and Light Switch
• Hue: A19, Lux, BR30, Bloom, and LightStrip lights
Submitted a request to Echo’s support to add SmartThings integration this morning. Got this back:
Hello,
This is Brandon from Echo support, we are not sure what the next update will entail but it appears that a lot of people have smartthings in their homes already so we have been passing every request for smart things to our development team.
Just consolidating conversations.