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Customer Review
Reviewed in Australia on 2 May 2020
We have 8 Alexa Dots, 2 Alexa Plus and 1 Show 5. I would absolutely love to be able to replace all our Dots with the Show 5, but the dots just won't die! They just keep working and some are nearing 2-3 years old!
Alexa Show:
Great compact device. I like being able to link in photos to my Amazon Photo account and have it cycle through. The daily updates of tips and tricks for Alexa is a pleasant surprise and as a result there are more features that I'm learning about Alexa each day.
I have my show connected to my Ring device, and I don't know if this is an issue with Ring or with Alexa, but when I say "Alexa show my front door" there is about a 1 minute delay before it shows the door. When it does show it though, the feed is great and works well. I can hear everything that is going on outside.
Sound quality is good, but it gets a bit tinny when it's on max volume, so we don't use it very much for streaming music.
Setup was nice and easy. I bought it via my Amazon account and I powered it on and it started auto setting up which was great. It integrated well within our home environment.
When used with paired apps (such as the Sensibo) you get a few extras, so on the Sensibo, it actually shows me the temperature of my aircon and what temp the room is cooling too. When timers are set, it has a clockface that does a countdown for you and when streaming music, you get the title on the screen.
A nice little device, would work great in the kitchen as a companion or even in the bedroom/office as a clock. Would like to see future generations of this device to be "flatter" for wall mounting.
Great product, would look at this for replacing my Alexa Dots when they eventually die.
Alexa Show:
Great compact device. I like being able to link in photos to my Amazon Photo account and have it cycle through. The daily updates of tips and tricks for Alexa is a pleasant surprise and as a result there are more features that I'm learning about Alexa each day.
I have my show connected to my Ring device, and I don't know if this is an issue with Ring or with Alexa, but when I say "Alexa show my front door" there is about a 1 minute delay before it shows the door. When it does show it though, the feed is great and works well. I can hear everything that is going on outside.
Sound quality is good, but it gets a bit tinny when it's on max volume, so we don't use it very much for streaming music.
Setup was nice and easy. I bought it via my Amazon account and I powered it on and it started auto setting up which was great. It integrated well within our home environment.
When used with paired apps (such as the Sensibo) you get a few extras, so on the Sensibo, it actually shows me the temperature of my aircon and what temp the room is cooling too. When timers are set, it has a clockface that does a countdown for you and when streaming music, you get the title on the screen.
A nice little device, would work great in the kitchen as a companion or even in the bedroom/office as a clock. Would like to see future generations of this device to be "flatter" for wall mounting.
Great product, would look at this for replacing my Alexa Dots when they eventually die.
