The Best Smart Devices to Pair With Amazon's Alexa!
The Best Smart Devices to Pair With Amazon's Alexa!
These are the best Alexa devices 2022, and they are all Amazon must haves (or what you call Amazon finds) when you’re building a smart home or home automation system with Amazon Alexa at the forefront. These are the devices you’ll pair with an Echo, Echo Show, Fire TV Stick, Fire Tablet, or other Alexa based device.
I’ll probably have to make a part 2 of this video, as it’s hard to cover the best smart home devices for Alexa in just one top 5 (or top 6 in this case) video.
Products from today’s video:
Flic – https://flic.io/?aff=66 (affiliate link)
YoLink – https://geni.us/YoLink (Amazon affiliate link)
Philips Hue – https://geni.us/PhilipsHueAYL (Amazon affiliate link)
Govee – https://geni.us/GoveeAYL (Amazon affiliate link)
SwitchBot – https://www.switch-bot.com/automateyourlife (Use code: AUTOMATEYOURLIFE10 to get 10% off!) (affiliate link)
Ring – https://geni.us/RingSecurity (Amazon affiliate link)
Eero – https://geni.us/Eero6Plus (Amazon affiliate link)
Link to the SwitchBot IR trick: https://youtu.be/oyWjDVRAVio
Timecodes for today’s video:
00:00 – With the Flick of a Button
1:06 – The Best Smart Home Products With Alexa
1:25 – A Smart Home System You’ve Never Heard of
3:23 – I Use This Most Often For Smart Lighting With Amazon Alexa
4:35 – This is the Best Smart Lighting With Alexa
5:23 – A Unique Set of Smart Gadgets
6:35 – The Best Cameras and Security With Alexa
8:12 – Sneaky Good WiFi With Alexa
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Do you need the flic hub to work with Alexa?
The US post office hasn’t hassled about my contact sensor. Maybe you should move your mailbox to the US.
I have the first echo dot that came out, it’s still working, but..has anyone else noticed their dot getting that raspy, course sound like old speakers use to get when it had a hole in it? š¤
Brian, THANK YOU for this video! One of your best as far as I am concerned! I did not realize that I could add Blink cameras without their hub, using my Echo 4! Will have to give them another look. OTOH I too am a big fan of YoLink products with their long range coverage from a twenty-dollar hub!
wow so many devices work with alexa! Apple has to get there homekit game together for they have alot of catching up to do!
idk, if I have to download other apps, it means the device is not really prepared to connect with alexa, I rather have devices that directly connect with alexa
Thank you for bringing up the switchbot response time concern. I love switchbot… its my only qualm with using thier products.
My curtains are all on routines and automated so no real issue there. My TV’S and sound bar respond right away with IR blaster. I can voice command turn on my office computer from bed when I wake up for working at home with a button pusher.
Only issue! The button pushers and curtains are SUPER slow to respond to voice command and can’t take up to 15-20 seconds to respond š¤£
Hey, Brian, you nailed it again. I love the YoLink stuff as there is no better system for leak sensors and you can shut off the water to your house with no electricity or Internet working…try that with anything else. The LoRa enables you to even put a thermometer in a freezer without signal issues. Of course, folks whine about Hue expense, but after trying a LOT of different bulbs I find the Hue system is totally reliable and works well with everyone including Alexa, SmartThings, Hubitat, Home Assistant, and Homekit. I, too, have a couple of the Govee corner lights and love them. A couple of Alexa integrations I like are with the Rachio Irrigation system ("Alexa, water the backyard for 10 minutes"), etc. or use a routine with Rachio and a YoLink outdoor motion sensor, or camera motions to briefly turn on sprinklers to scare deer away who are turning your flowers into a salad bar. I like the iRobot (Roomba) Alexa integration with routines like "Alexa, suck it up, Buttercup" to send it off to clean the kitchen. There are more, of course so keep doing it!!!
Hey Brian, been a while since I’ve commented on a video. I really haven’t gone much beyond smart bulbs for my smart home, and a couple of Amazon Smart Plugs. As I’ve mentioned to you on Twitter, I have a few devices that have smart home integration, but not so much dedicated smart devices. I’m still watching product videos though to see if I come across things that really would apply to me though, and I would actually use. I always look forward to you videos, even if I don’t watch, or comment consistently, there is always something new to learn.
Justin Trudeau is about as much use to society as a water soluble condom.
Thank you sir!
When you say GoVee support in alexa I assume they still haven’t support using the DIY mode triggered by Alexa routine, isn’tthat correct?
Love the intro!!
Wait, how do you use govee diy scenes for Alexa to see and use? Canāt find anything aside from preset scenes but not my diy
also, please do a video explaining which ring sensors works with echo 4th please!
Interesting, I never even heard of those products!
Great review! Thanks for pointing at the many products that interface with Alexa Routines. Please do Part 2 as you mentioned.
Any idea as to why that was made illegal?
Does anyone have a link for the mailbox contact sensor being illegal in Canada, I would like to read more about it?
Brian what about Aqara. Do you think it’s a viable security system instead of Ring. They have a lot of positive feedback even if they are pushed more towards Homekit
Would you buy any devices until Matter takes hold?
I have a netgear stand alone router and want to jump into mesh. I use alexa and have 5 of them of different generations. Orbiy seems to be the mesh king right now with speed and pairing to 200 devices with 4 bands. IS the eero that much better using alexa integration?
I wanted to do the mailbox sensor too rip ahahah I’m from Canada too
So annoying go and check if there’s mail
Anyone know how to connect all echoes to cable box? Iām trying to get the sound for the Super Bowl to play throughout my house.
Is there anyway you could do a video on all the products you would use building around a SmartThings home?
Great videos EERO mesh system is excellent I have one for a month now and am very impressed Easy easy app to setup Thanks for your videos great job
Another informative video, thanks. I use Amazon devices and you just gave me some more ideas.
Oooh.. new intro!
I bought the eero 6 Dual mesh system in Dec ’21. I am a smarthome nut and devices started dropping offline. In short order, I realized that eero is limited to 75 devices and there’s the rub. I had 140 IoT devices and had to replace my erro6 with a ASUS ZenWiFi product. I can’t imagine that you don’t have more than 75 devices. How are you getting around that problem using eero 6?
What???!!! Big Brother Canada, said it was illegal for you to do that? So if you own your home AND the mailbox, you can’t see if your mailbox gets opened?
I think another video continuing this line of review, would be good.
Can you do the samething for Google Home?
Am I the only one that think the flick is way to expensive ?!?
I’m sold on Yolink. What I really like, aside from their ecosystem appearing to be reliable with more than one connectivity option, is that their corporate office is in North America. The key fob that they have that can trigger Alexa Routines is a big reason they got my attention in the first place. Sure, their products are made in China, but having support here if there is a problem and not having to deal with time differences, email conversations, and language barriers is worth it’s weight in gold.
Love the N7 tee shirt š Still my favourite game.
In my smart home setup, I use Alexa, Google, Phillips Hue, Samsung, and Wyze products. I find Amazon products are my favorite and easiest to work with.
Love the videos. One of the key things I’m trying to workout is a motion sensor. One that I can link to my Echo 4th gen or Echo Studio via zigbee and use in the routines to turn lights on, or, off after a length of time with no motion.
Ooooooooh like the new opening graphic!
I can only dream of doing all of this.
Please do a another video like this with Wyze products and Amazon alexas
YOLINK all the way!!!!!
interesting regarding the mailbox, I wonder what their rational is
Great video Brian!!! I think sometimes smart home devices reviews overlook the fact that most people are interested in knowing whether the device can trigger Alexa Routines or not.
Hey Brian! Any intel on maybe Amazon updating their line of Alexa products this summer?
I love the concept of the flic buttons, but they are prohibitively expensive for just a simple button. I wish there was a cheaper option, a zigbee button that connects and directly works with the Echo gen 4.