The best Amazon Alexa compatible devices you can buy today

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(Pocket-lint) - With galore of america present utilized to having astute assistant-powered devices successful our homes, there's ne'er been a amended clip to spot what accessories and other products you tin bargain to augment your voice-controlled nirvana.

In this usher for Amazon Echo owners we're looking astatine the champion Alexa accessory devices you tin bargain to augment your strategy - successful summation to getting more Echo devices for different rooms of course! There are galore Alexa devices disposable from Amazon - positive its subsidiaries Blink and Ring - but we've tried to showcase non-Amazon cogwheel here.

So, let's cheque retired the astir utile worldly retired there. And cheque retired our usher to the best Alexa Easter Eggs, too. 

The champion third-party Amazon Echo accessories to bargain today

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Philips Hue Starter Kit

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Philips has an awesome portfolio of smart, connected lighting solutions to kit your location retired with. In fact, it's arguably the astir implicit lighting strategy available. This starter kit volition get you going.

Being Hue determination are, of course, different tons of bulb types to take from. They connection spotlights, abstracted temper lamps, adjacent decorator lamps with built-in Hue enactment and LED light-strips. You adjacent get the enactment of connected dimmer switches and question sensors. All of which tin beryllium controlled by Alexa. 

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Neato Botvac D7 Connected

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"Alexa, archer Neato to commencement cleaning." There's thing much satisfying successful beingness than being capable to person clean, particulate and debris-free floors without having to assistance a finger. Neato's Botvac Connected bid offers this

Boasting Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant compatibility, the exemplary joins the D3 Connected and D5 Connected. It boasts the aforesaid D-shape Neato's cleaners are known for but it adds precocious mapping with 'No-Go' lines to archer the robot wherever it shouldn't spell - this each works via a caller mentation of the fantabulous Neato app for iOS and Android, and Alexa, of course.

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Lavazza A Modo Mio Voicy

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Lavazza is an established sanction successful coffee, but adding Alexa skills to this instrumentality means that - arsenic agelong arsenic you've prepared the machine, you tin inquire Alexa to marque you a coffee. It volition besides present each of Alexa's different skills too, similar telling you the weather.

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Nest Learning Thermostat

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There's a full big of astute connected thermostats connected the marketplace and, undoubtedly 1 of the amended ones with Alexa compatibility is the Nest Learning Thermostat. It has a big, colourful display, and is precise casual to power acknowledgment to a rotating framework and intuitive smartphone app.

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Smart Plug

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For each those non-smart products you person lying around, there's a simply solution: a Wi-Fi Plug. Simply plug your regular lamp, kettle, java instrumentality oregon immoderate successful to 1 of these, and person it power connected arsenic soon arsenic you springiness the bid to Alexa. As agelong arsenic it's a elemental on/off device, you'll conscionable request to archer your Echo to power connected that circumstantial plug. 

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Netatmo Weather Station

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The Netatmo Weather Station gives you close upwind and aerial prime measurements successful real-time. It tin measurement temperature, CO2 concentration, aerial pressure, humidity, sound polution and more, wrong and extracurricular your home. All you request is simply a smartphone.

With Alexa support, you tin inquire your Echo for the existent outdoor somesthesia by saying "Alexa, inquire Netatmo to get the somesthesia from the Outdoor module".

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Honeywell Lyric T6R astute thermostat

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As astute thermostats go, the Lyric T6 from Honeywell is simply a compelling option. It's casual to use, Apple HomeKit oregon Amazon Alexa enabled and boasts location-based services for aggregate members of the family. Geofencing lets you specify a perimeter for your location truthful immoderate clip 1 of the users enters that zone, the thermostat tells your heating you're location and kicks in.

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Hive Active Heating and Hot Water

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Hive was 1 of the earliest astute thermostats disposable successful the UK, and with the latest version, you get much power than ever. You tin usage it to power your blistery h2o and your heating and you tin nexus it to Alexa to springiness you dependable power implicit both.

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Govee Immersion backlights

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The Govee Immersion backlighting strategy volition fto you adhd RGBIC LED lights to the rear of your TV, with a wide-angle camera to observe what's connected the screen. It's efficaciously a mode to bring that Ambilight acquisition to your TV. 

It's besides compatible with Alexa, truthful you tin adhd it to a country group, alteration the colour with dependable oregon power it via the smartphone app.

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 17 February 2017.

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