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A touchscreen control panel that hangs on the wall is one of the most common features of professionally installed smart home and home security systems. I’m talking subscription services such as Vivint Smart Home and Alarm.com in the mainstream, and Control4, Crestron, and Savant at the high end. Amazon has now delivered such a component to people who rely on Alexa to power their smart homes.
The Echo Hub is powerful and highly customizable; as such, it will be of most interest to hardcore Alexa users. While it’s very functional right out of the box, you’ll want to spend some quality time re-arranging its visual elements in whatever ways you find most useful. This is easy to accomplish in drag-and-drop fashion – once you’re accustomed to how things work, that is – but the learning curve here is not at all steep.
The Amazon Echo Hub is much more than a smart display, it’s a powerful, full-fledged smart home controller.
That said, if you’ve taken a willy-nilly approach to adding components to your smart home – a occupational hazard for a product reviewer like me –
