Alarm clocks have come a long way from simply buzzing you awake. The Amazon Echo Spot is a great example, and it’s currently on sale for $45 at Amazon, down from $80.
This smart home hub adds Alexa, smart home controls, rich audio, and a customizable display to your bedroom. It can wake you up with music, answer questions, control compatible smart devices, and even help extend your home’s Wi-Fi coverage.
Why Choose the Amazon Echo Spot?
Unlike a traditional alarm clock, the Echo Spot features a customizable display that shows the time, weather, reminders, song titles, and more. You can personalize the clock face and colors to better match your room or style, and use the touchscreen to control music and smart home devices.
Despite its small footprint, the Amazon Echo Spot delivers surprisingly rich audio with clear vocals and deeper bass than you’d expect from a bedside speaker. Simply ask Alexa to play your favorite playlists, podcasts, audiobooks, or radio stations, then view song information right on the display.
You can create Alexa routines that gradually wake you with music and compatible smart lighting, rather than a jarring alarm. Alexa can also answer questions, provide weather updates, remind you about appointments, or help manage your schedule.
The Echo Spot is also a great control hub. You can connect devices such as lights, thermostats, and blinds to it and control them via voice with Alexa. You can even create motion-based routines that automatically manage connected devices when you enter or leave a room.
Additionally, the Echo Spot has eero built in, so it can act as a mesh Wi-Fi extender for compatible eero systems, adding up to 1,000 square feet of additional Wi-Fi coverage. This can be quite handy if you experience dead zones around your home.
At $45, the Echo Spot is an affordable way to add a smart alarm clock, Alexa assistant, quality speaker, and smart home controller to almost any room. If you’ve been considering adding an Alexa device to your home, this early Prime Day deal is excellent.