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There’s a final bottom menu where you’ll see entire categories of devices, such as lights, cameras, and plugs. You can tap these to see all the devices of that type at once; I see 10 different lights from my home when I open on the generic Lights option. But even without opening it, that little menu also shows me the total number of lights on in my home, so it’s handy at a quick glance. Finally in the list of menus is the classic top-down menu that matches an Echo Show device. It’s where you’ll find the device’s settings, alarms, brightness, and more.<\/p>\n

Similar to other Echo devices, you’ll find a smart home hub built-in that works with Zigbee, Sidewalk, Thread, Bluetooth, and Matter. A smart-home hub is needed for certain products to work and communicate with each other. Philips Hue has always needed a hub for its lights, and smart security systems often have hubs and base stations too. But fewer products require an individual hub to work\u2014Abode’s security system<\/a> has a hub, for example, but then offers a suite of products that are hub-free. The newest Show 8<\/a> and the Show 10<\/a>, and the screen-free Echo (4th Gen)<\/a>, also have smart home hubs. (Correction: A previous version of this piece had details about the hub wrong.)<\/p>\n

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