New Amazon Echo has Zigbee

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Amazon has/is launching a new Echo speaker with Alexa which has Zigbee radio:

A larger Echo Plus adds a “home hub”, letting it control smart light bulbs and other third-party products without a separate data-linking device.

The Echo Plus - which is compatible with the Zigbee smart home protocol - costs £140/$150/150 euros.

I will be very interested to watch this.
Will it be the mythical Zigbee “one ring to rule them all”?
(My guess is no :slight_smile: )

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Do you know whether Home-Assistant can access the devices added to Echo Plus?

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Seconding this. Is Home Assistant likely to be able to see devices connected to the hub in the plus? Can it already? I can’t seem to find any information on this.

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https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/95222/api-to-access-the-integrated-hub-in-the-echo-plus.html