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Amazon Echo Plus (2nd Gen) review: Good sound, plus a Zigbee smart-home hub for the win – TechHive
If you can forgo Z-Wave smart-home devices, this is the smart speaker to buy (but that calculation could change soon).
Amazon released the first Echo Plus smart speaker/smart-home hub in 2017, and this second generation arrived a year later. What makes it Plus is simple: A built-in Zigbee radio. That eliminates the need to also have something like a Samsung SmartThings or a Hubitat Elevation on your networkat least to control other smart home devices that use Zigbee. Well get deeper into that in a bit.
The second-generation Echo Plus has one other minor new addition: An ambient temperature sensor, so you can as…
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