{"id":352091,"date":"2017-06-27T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T08:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/27\/amazon-echo-intercom-feature-update\/"},"modified":"2017-06-27T16:30:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T08:30:50","slug":"amazon-echo-smart-speakers-gain-room-to-room-intercom-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/amazon-echo-smart-speakers-gain-room-to-room-intercom-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Echo Smart Speakers Gain Room-to-Room Intercom Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon is releasing a software update for its Echo<\/a> range of smart speakers that enables households with multiple Echos to use them as room-to-room intercoms (via TechCrunch<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

Once the new feature is set up, users are able to select a speaker in a specific room and communicate with it one-to-one – to call the kids to dinner from the kitchen Echo, for example.<\/p>\n

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To enable the function, users must first give a distinctive name (such as a room) to each Echo in their household and enable the Drop-In feature using the Alexa app.<\/p>\n

The intercom system works through household groups created during the setup process, meaning it’s not limited to speakers on the same Wi-Fi, so it’s possible to communicate with Echo-owning friends or relatives in a different area code, for instance. Users can also use the feature away from home using the Alexa app.<\/p>\n

The Drop-In feature first appeared on Amazon’s new Echo Show with integrated display, with some reviewers finding the video aspect a little intrusive<\/a>. Similarly, there doesn’t seem to be a way to block the intercom audio on the standard Echo range, so it’s worth keeping this in mind before enabling it.<\/p>\n

The update is rolling out to the Echo family of speakers this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon is releasing a software update for its Echo range of smart speakers that enables households with multiple Echos to use them as room-to-room intercoms (via TechCrunch). Once the new feature is set up, users are able to select a speaker in a specific room and communicate with it one-to-one – to call the kids […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":352092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-352091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}