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Hands-free Alexa accessory – Slim design that’s easy to place in your car and 5-mic built-in so Alexa can hear you over music, A/C, or road noise. Includes a fast car charger to charge your phone on the go.
Listen to your favorite music – Ask Alexa to stream playlists from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, and more, or listen live to radio stations. Use Follow Me Music to resume media playback.
Call and message with your voice – Use your voice to make calls, reply to text messages, drop in on Alexa-enabled devices in your home or broadcast announcements. Pre-select the messages and notifications you want to hear using VIP Filter in the Alexa app.
Get your favorite entertainment hands-free – Binge a hot new podcast, catch up on the news, or listen to best-selling Audible books.
Control your smart home from the road – Ask Alexa to set the thermostat, turn off the lights, check if your front door is locked, and more while you’re away from home.
Designed to protect your privacy – Amazon is not in the business of selling your personal information to others. Built with multiple layers of privacy controls, including a mic off button.
Customers say
Customers like the ease of installation of the digital device. They mention that the application is straightforward and pairing was fairly easy to do. They also like the size. However, some customers have reported connectivity issues and annoyance with the product. Opinions are mixed on responsiveness, sound quality, performance, and voice recognition.
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Bob –
The Alexa App Must Be Open For It to Connect
Just heard from tech support. I was advised that the engineers worked on the app and now the Alexa App does not have to be open for the device to connect. Well, I checked it out and sure enough, the app was upgraded and now the app does not have to be open. Kudos to Amazon for listening to their customers. I am giving this device 5 stars because it works perfectly in every aspect. Thank you Amazon.After many attempts and working with tech support, it turns out that the Alexa App must be open for the device to connect to your phone. What a let down. The tech support suggested that before I get into my car I should open the app. Who wants a device like that. Now I’m sure the engineers that designed this probably do not use it. If they did, they will fix this ridiculous function. Once it connects, it works great. Oh by the way, if you forget to open the app and you drive away and then realize you didn’t open the app, you will not be able to open it without answering the question, are you a passenger…..what were they thinking. Hopefully someone in the tech department will read this and pass it on to the engineers that designed this. I am now using an If This Than That App which will automatically turn the Alexa App on when the bluetooth automatically connects to my car head unit and turn it off when I leave the car. It works perfectly. Don’t know why they didn’t think of this. Once you get around this, I think you will really like the device. Navigation is perfect, phone calls are perfect, Text messaging does work with whatever messaging app you use, however it also adds your voice to the message so your recipient can not only read your message, but can also hear you speak it. The music options are perfect ei: pandora, sirius xm radio, spotify, whatever you use on your phone. You can also give commands like your home alexa devices, ei: turn on lights, open the garage door, etc. If they fix the automatic connection, this device deserves 5 stars.
Theresab WIT –
Not for everyone, but great for me, & better than 1st gen
*** if you are attempting to connect with a newer phone, see my update below***I recently used a rental for a week that had Android Auto. I loved the voice commands. I felt far less distracted. Alas, I can’t afford a new car, and, well, frankly love mine. I drive a 2015 Honda Pilot. I was curious if there were after market ways to add the voice commands and stumbled across the Echo Auto.We have been big Alexa and Amazon devices for a long, long time (we’re talking owners of the 1st gen Kindle). I remembered my husband had participated in the Echo Auto when it first released. He wasn’t sure where he’d placed it – his truck has Android Auto, so he doesn’t use the Echo Auto. He suggested I try the 2nd gen because it had a lot of upgrades.Now, first of all, I should note I wanted voice commands for my music. I’m pretty protective about my music, and want it to play smoothly. I mostly use Spotify, but also use Amazon Music. I also figured it’d be handy to have texts read to me, and maybe to answer them, as my family with newer cars forget I don’t have Android Auto. My car does have Bluetooth and does handle hands-free calls.I found the Echo Auto easy to install. I’m not sure why the instructions have you mount it first before setup, but I ignored that and set it up first. It walks you through setup as most their devices do, and it was easy. I particularly liked that I had the option to not have it handle phone calls, but could have it handle text messages. It has you select your default apps for music and entertainment, as well as maps. You can also opt out of having the Echo Auto control these.As for day to day use, it controls my music just as well as any of the devices in my house. There is occasionally some confusion as I have Spotify set as my default music app, so if I want a Playlist on Amazon Music, I have to specify Amazon Music. It reads texts messages well. My only complaint is you can’t specify a contact to read the text from, so you have to allow it to read all unread texts in order they were received. It’s been inconsistent on sending texts. Sometimes it works like a charm, sometimes not. It doesn’t bother me as I’d rather be focused on the road and my music. Having it read the text so I can find out if it is urgent is enough. I haven’t used it to navigate, but it opened Maps fine when I tested it.***UPDATE – I upgraded my phone from Samsung Galaxy S21+ to Samsung Galaxy S24+. I had to reset the Echo Auto. After many attempts, and resets and other tweaks, I finally got it to work. It would go through the setup process fine, but when I asked Alexa something, the blue ring would light, but no sound whatsoever. So, to save someone else the headache, here’s how I fixed it. I un-installed the Alexa app from my phone, rebooted my phone (mostly cause that’s what I do) and reinstalled the Alexa app. Setup was seamless after and I haven’t had any issues.
dandercore –
Works most of the time all of the time
This is a tough review to write. On the one hand, this device has solved a huge issue for me since my 2016 Audi with nav does not play well with my iPhone. Specifically, my car does not allow me to use my voice for texting and this device does.On the other hand, this device is very unreliable. It drops connections often, will turn red and not connect at all until I reset it and reconnect it, and, most annoyingly, often will not do the one thing I bought it for, voice texting. About 20% of the time I am met with a “please open the alexa app and set up voice messaging”, which, of course, I have done like a million times.When it works, it is great. I just wish it held connections and was consistent.
D. Subba –
Works flawlessly
I have it paired to my Carlinkit CPC-200 TBox that has its own T-Mobile SIM card and it just runs flawlessly. I use it mainly to open my default map for locations and to play music from Spotify. The microphone is quite sensitive. Even though Iâve placed in on my center console it picks up my voice without any issues. Itâs a positive upgrade from the first version