Decided to pick up this unit based on the great reviews, and Energy Star most efficient rating, and I am very impressed so far. After spending two days without AC, and an internal home temperature of 89 degrees, I had had enough. A company spokesperson told me, "We're working to make the Echo Wall Clock available again soon." Frustrating! Your best bet is to ask Amazon for an email notification when it has more to sell.So, at the end of June 2022, my central AC decided to stop running in the middle of a heat wave (of course it did, why wouldn't it? O_o). I would, at least, if Amazon had any in stock. I would buy the Amazon Echo Wall Clock I'm not going to, because I think I'm going to switch to Google Assistant soon at home, but if I wasn't, I would scoop one up.
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It also won't work with Amazon's own Fire TV or Fire Tablet products, nor with the Echo Tap or the It does not support third-party devices with Alexa built-in like the Sonos One speaker or the Ecobee 4 Smart Thermostat. For the sake of consumer choice and smaller landfills, I hope that's the case.īe forewarned, the compatibility list for the Echo Wall Clock includes the We've seen that happen with smart home products, too. It's possible that some of these gadgets will work with more than one voice assistant. , I expect we'll be drowning in gadgets that leverage core functions of the two voice services in ways that either extend them to other products, as with the Echo Wall Clock, or that use them in interesting new ways, as Amazon imagines might happen with toys.Īs has already happened with core smart home products, with more gadgets tied to one particular voice service, the closer each service gets to becoming a platform rather than an isolated voice assistant product. By this time in 2020, when we're through another year's worth of Amazon and Google product launch events, another holiday buying season, and another The premise is that both Alexa and Google Assistant can perform a wide enough variety of tasks that consumers might find them useful in all kinds of different products, many of which don't need to be as complicated as a thermostat, a door lock or some other serious household fixture. Showed off prototype hardware using its similar Google Assistant Connect kit at this year's CES. Amazon announced its Alexa Gadgets Toolkit back in September 2018, and
Both voice platforms have released lightweight development kits designed especially for third parties to make more products like the Echo Wall Clock. Indeed, you can expect to see more products like this that work with Alexa, along with others that work with Google Assistant. That looks like an opportunity for another Alexa-driven clock from a third party, since the Echo Wall Clock is a product of a publicly available set of development tools called the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit. Using the Echo Wall Clock as an analog time instructional tool (the irony!) might be easier if you could set the LEDs to count forward from the minute hand position, rather than downward from 12 o'clock. The three most common uses I've heard in passing are to better keep track of cooking timers, to give greater visibility to screen time limits for your children and to help your kids learn to tell time. Simple enough, and it's easy to imagine how that might be useful at home. There ends the list of what the Echo Wall Clock can do that a traditional analog wall clock cannot.
Say "Alexa, remind me to take out the kale chips at 5 p.m.," and the entire ring of LEDs on the Clock will flash at you in time with the reminder when it goes off. The Clock will also work with any Alexa reminders. It will also adjust for daylight saving time automatically. Because your Echo device gets its time setting from Amazon's servers, you don't need to worry about maintaining accuracy. Once that pairing process starts, the hands on the Clock will spin around by themselves on their way to settling on the correct time. The Clock gets its time from the Echo it's paired with. After that, pairing it with your nearest Echo device is entirely automated.
Once you put the batteries in, simply say "Alexa, set up my Wall Clock." It will prompt you to hold down a small button on the back of the Clock for six seconds. What I really did like is the Alexa-based setup process. Amazon says "it's working to improve the connectivity for customers." It's fine to have an utilitarian out-of-box experience, but maybe lock down the "batteries make it go" part before you ship. Too bad no one wants to troubleshoot a clock. It did! I swapped the original batteries back in it, and the Clock worked like it was supposed to. An Amazon spokesperson suggested that taking the Amazon-provided batteries out and the putting them back in would work. Four fresh Duracells solved the problem for me. I'm not the only user to face this issue.
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