Amazon Echo Plus Smart Speaker with Built-in Smart Home Hub with Alexa Voice Recognition & Control, 2nd Generation

The second generation Echo Plus features a premium speaker for powerful 360° sound, and a built-in Zigbee smart home hub and temperature sensor. Play music, ask questions, make calls to anyone with an Echo device or the Alexa App, or get information, news, sports scores, weather and more. With the built-in hub, starting your smart home is easy. The simple way to start your smart home Echo Plus connects to and controls smart lights, plugs, switches and more. Just power on compatible products and say, “Alexa, discover my devices.” Echo Plus will automatically detect and set up those devices so you can control them with your voice. This simple setup process works with dozens of compatible smart home devices that use Zigbee. Echo Plus also supports every 'Works with Alexa smart home device. Compatible smart devices sold separately. Always ready to help Make your life easier at home. Use your voice to set timers and alarms, add items to lists or create calendar events and reminders. You can also check the news, weather or traffic, or ask for sports scores, film show times, restaurant hours or information. With seven microphones, beam-forming technology and noise cancellation, Echo Plus hears you from any direction; even while music is playing. Voice control your music Echo Plus has an upgraded premium speaker design with Dolby Processing, engineered for high-quality audio. With crisp vocals and dynamic bass response, you can adjust equaliser settings within the Alexa app. Use your voice to ask for any song, artist or genre from Amazon Music, Spotify, TuneIn, and others, and play music across compatible Echo devices throughout your home. You can also listen to Audible, radio stations and more. Connect with others Call anyone with an Echo device or the Alexa App hands-free using your voice. Use Drop In to quickly connect to another compatible Echo device at home or send an announcement across Echo devices, like calling the family for dinner or reminding the kids to go to sleep. Alexa has skills Alexa has tens of thousands of skills and counting. Skills are like apps and help you do more, such as playing True or False, tracking your fitness with Fitbit or falling asleep to rain sounds. Just say “Alexa, help me get started with skills”. New skills are being added all the time. Total app control Download the free Alexa app onto your Fire OS, Android, iOS device or desktop browsers for easy set up and control. Some services may require subscription A Smart Speaker is a platform that can run 3rd party Apps. 3rd party content providers may remove Apps from the Smart platform or stop supporting them at any time, and we cannot guarantee an App's availability. When new Smart products are launched, there may also be a delay before certain Apps become available. Availability of Apps is not included within the terms of the manufacturer's warranty, or the John Lewis 2-year Guarantee for audio visual products, or the 5-year Guarantee for TVs.... More