Turn your devices and the alexa app into an intercom.
Alexa announce in all rooms.
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.
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.
Once you know the name of the device you want to call.
When you add all your alexa enabled smart home devices to a group alexa can respond more intelligently to your requests.
With the exception of the bathrooms we can talk to an alexa everywhere in the house including the.
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.
Those that are offline will be labeled as such.
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.
Use drop in to open up instant two way conversations between rooms announcements to broadcast from any room.
Over the weekend amazon rolled out new alexa functionality.
You can also call almost anyone for free or send personalized voice messages.
Tap echo alexa and you ll see a list of amazon devices.
Just follow the simple steps below.
Then just ask alexa to play music on the group and the sounds are piped to all the devices in that.
The devices screen offers you a.
Open the alexa app on your smartphone and tap devices in the lower right corner.
Unlike the intercom feature announcements are a one way function.
Press announce for more alexa tips tricks and how tos check out our complete guide to amazon alexa.
Tap the communicate icon in the alexa app.
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.
Let alexa help your household and family stay better connected.
First create a group to house the echo devices you want to include in the multi room playback.