I have two Echoes, and they both work with Smatthings equally well. There was no special setting up to make them work, I set it up through one and that took care of both.
As far as the quality of the listening, I can be in the other room talking to my employee Alexis on the phone and Alexa response “dong dong”. I’ve stood on my porch and asked her through a closed window to turn the porch light and she does.
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Also guys, don’t forget that the remotes the Echo’s come with are Wifi and can be used in a different room and worked. I have my Echo downstairs in our kitchen and the remote in the Master Bathroom upstairs and can instigate group commands that way. I DONT think, though, you can pair multiple remotes up to one Echo.
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Looks like the Echo remotes are unavailable with no known date or even if they will come into stock… 
The Echo Dot has just been released; Amazon’s solution to a listening device for each room.
Not sure if these devices are room aware - their advert shows someone saying ‘Alexa turn the lights off’
Would be great if you could specify a default set of devices for each room it’s in so you can more naturally speak to it.
I suspect the advert was using a single scene called lights.
anyone tested this yet??
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I think each Alexa (Echo or Dot) will have its own profile and thus you can assign unique device name aliases that differ from room to room.
ie, In the bedroom, Bedroom Lights are just called “Lights”, but Kitchen Lights are called… “Kitchen Lights” (and vice versa).
Manual naming process, but might work. Still not sure what will happen if two units overhear a request.
I have three echoes setup here. They are all on the same account and I am not able to specify which devices go to which echo. It would be nice if they could.
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Give me my Jarvis experience please Amazon!
LOL!
I’ve seen a lot of questions asking what happens when multiple echo devices hear you giving a command.
So last night I tried it to see what would happen.
Here’s what happened…
Requested actions processed correctly
And
Alexa talked to me in stereo
No adverse effects!
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I know this topic is dead but I came upon it when looking for what is being discussed here. The Echo has improved so much since this thread was active. I have an echo in every room - 2 of them Echo Dots and one original Echo. I have an Echo Show in the kitchen (which is pretty much useless now without YouTube). I have an original Echo in my bathroom.
The one in my bathroom and the one in my bedroom are no more than 8 feet apart and a lot of times I’m physically between the two of them when I give a command. They are now smart enough to decide which of them will respond.
The reason I was searching for “remote mic for echo” and “remote mic for alexa” is because sometimes I want to set an alarm or a timer on an Echo other than the one that’s closest to me. Having a remote mic for the kitchen Echo would allow me to set a timer in the kitchen where I intend to be when my food is almost done baking.
Since I haven’t found such a product. I’m thinking of building one myself. It would consist of 2 devices. One would simply be a mic that would send whatever it hears over to another device situated beside the intended receiver. I’m sure someone will say “well, I don’t want to hear everything going on in the bedroom while I’m in the kitchen”. True. But have you ever tried whispering to Alexa? She still understands and responds. Also, I saw an article where they got Alexa to respond using a frequency above the range of human hearing.
Just throwing this out there. Let me know what you guys think.
I know the original echo comes with a remote. My little daughter uses it all the time to search for things on the fire TV.
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A remote mic would be tied to one particular echo device via bluetooth so it’s not a good solution, unless you want to carry around 8 remotes 
And what’s wrong with carrying around 8 remotes?
Over the holidays, Echo Dot was $30.00.
Why do extension mics?
I want a remote microphone as there’s no such thing as a waterproof Echo.
I don’t care about losing the multi-directional bit as I’ll always be standing in the same place when using the shower (enclosed cabin).
I can have a remote speaker which solves half the problem, but until they bring out the Echo ‘Splash’ I’ll just have to shout my head off for the dot to hear me outside of the shower.