![]() ![]() Want to see who's at your front door but your hands are full and you can't grab your smartphone? Enter the Ring skill for Echo Show, which will give you a live feed of who is (or isn't) at your door - assuming you have a Ring setup in place of course. These are the best Amazon Echo Skills for creating a truly connected home. The result is an all-around smarter home controlled simply by your voice. It's the most sociable though, and it's using this chatty nature to strike up conversations with the rest of your connected tech. If you've got an Echo, chances are it's not the only smart device populating your home. (Image credit: The Ambient) Alexa smart home skills As much fun as you can have with an AI assistant. Twenty Questions - Not all Alexa games are fun - but Twenty Questions works seamlessly. ![]() Allrecipes - Get recipes with instructions on your Echo Show screen-based Alexa smart speaker.Xbox - Power on/off, open games and even record a moment.Todoist - Quickly add items to your to-do list and get a readout of everything that's on your daily agenda.Ambient Sounds - Fall asleep with the sound of the sea/forest/New York city streets in the background.Amazon Story Time - One for those with kids, have Alexa read a bedtime story.Spotify - Request music with your voice and now access podcasts and play them via your Alexa speaker.Best Alexa-compatible smart home devices.Head to the Alexa Skills Store for a full run down, but below are our top picks. Whether you have the Amazon Echo, the Echo Show 10, or even the Echo Dot with Clock, the same skills are available. Whether it's turning on your Nest smart thermostat up or controlling your Philips Hue lights or your Sonos speakers, skills enable your Amazon Echo to do pretty much everything.Īnd skills work across the board. Just like your smartphone app store, the Alexa store is bustling with skills for recipes, kids, news, music and more. Alexa skills are essentially apps for your Echo speaker that enable Amazon's voice assistant to do everything from get specific information, play games and connect smart home devices. ![]()
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