This allows you to use a limited set of voice commands to control these devices if your Wi-Fi or internet connection goes down. You can enable “Local Voice Control” by going to the Alexa App > Devices > Select the Echo device > Settings > Local Voice Control.
The various Echo Dot speakers do not have this Zigbee chip.īy pairing your Zigbee light switches, bulbs, plugs and locks to Alexa, you can then control them via this Echo hub.
#USE JOTSPOT FOR ECHO PLUS#
This includes the Echo 4th Gen, Echo Plus (1st and 2nd Gen) and Echo Studio speakers alongside the Echo Show 10 (2nd & 3rd Gen) smart display. Smart Device ControlĬertain Echo devices have an inbuilt Zigbee radio which allows them to be used as a smart home hub. You can’t however create new timers, reminders or alarms as this requires cloud processing. You can also dismiss reminders, alarms and timers that were previously set and scheduled to go off as these are saved on the device and not in the cloud. As it has an internal clock, it can still give you the date and time. Without Wi-Fi, you can ask your Echo device to increase, decrease and control your volume level.
#USE JOTSPOT FOR ECHO SOFTWARE#
This is similar to the audio pattern-recognition software used to recognize the “wake word”, so cloud processing is unnecessary. What Alexa features work without Wi-Fi or when your device is offline?Ĭertain models of Echo speakers and displays can support a limited number of voice commands to carry out various functions. This is why the vast majority of Alexa features won’t be available without Wi-Fi. In the above example, without an active Wi-Fi or internet connection, Alexa won’t be able to send the request to the cloud. The cloud service then interprets the request using “natural language processing”, carries out an appropriate action (such as checking if there is traffic in the area) and sends the response back to the device, to be relayed to the user. Once it hears the “wake word”, it then records the audio request and sends it to the cloud for processing. Sources Why Alexa needs Wi-Fi for most functionsĪlexa’s functions can be broadly broken down into local / on-device functions and cloud functions.įor example, Alexa uses audio pattern-recognition software installed on the Echo speaker to recognize the “wake word”.
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