Turn your devices and the alexa app into an intercom.
Alexa announce in all rooms.
Everyone within earshot of an echo will hear your announcement but won t be able to respond without either activating the intercom or making an.
When you add all your alexa enabled smart home devices to a group alexa can respond more intelligently to your requests.
Tap the communicate icon in the alexa app.
With the exception of the bathrooms we can talk to an alexa everywhere in the house including the.
Open the alexa app go to the communicate tab on the bottom navigation bar tap announce tap the microphone icon and say your message tap the arrow button to broadcast it.
Press announce for more alexa tips tricks and how tos check out our complete guide to amazon alexa.
You simply say alexa announce that dinner s ready to the nearest echo device and from there alexa will broadcast dinner s ready to every other amazon echo echo dot echo show and all the.
If you re asking alexa to play music on an echo device in one room but another alexa enabled device starts playing music somewhere else there are a few solutions to try.
One of those new abilities is room awareness.
It s been about a month since we put an alexa device into just about every room of the house.
Make sure you ve set up a smart home device group.
Unlike the intercom feature announcements are a one way function.
The devices screen offers you a.
Those that are offline will be labeled as such.
Use drop in to open up instant two way conversations between rooms announcements to broadcast from any room.
Simply turn to your nearest echo device and say alexa announce that alexa broadcast alexa tell everyone or alexa make an announcement alexa will record your voice and make every echo device in the house chirp followed by your announcement.
Open the alexa app on your smartphone and tap devices in the lower right corner.
Over the weekend amazon rolled out new alexa functionality.
This means you can now add your echo device to a group with other devices in the same room giving alexa the ability to know what devices are nearby.
Let alexa help your household and family stay better connected.
Tap echo alexa and you ll see a list of amazon devices.
You can also call almost anyone for free or send personalized voice messages.
The main advantage here is that you no longer need to know the name of the group associated with your devices or the names of those particular devices.
Just follow the simple steps below.
