Amazon’s Echo Hub gets a customizable new look and Ring’s AI features
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Amazon is rolling out a free Echo Hub software update with a cleaner, more customizable home screen that can show more smart home controls and information. The update also adds Ring AI’s Video Search for natural-language camera footage searches and Alexa Plus summaries of detected camera events.
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The update positions Echo Hub as a more capable smart home control center rather than just another Alexa display. By adding AI-powered camera search and event summaries, Amazon is pushing toward interfaces that make connected-home data easier to manage and review.
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Amazon's rolling out a free software update for Echo Hub devices that gives the home screen a much-needed update to the interface it launched with in 2024. It had already added Alex Plus AI support, but the new interface has a cleaner, fully customizable layout that fits more smart home info and controls on the screen than the previous version.
The Echo Hub is also getting access to Ring AI's Video Search feature that lets you use natural language to search through your smart home camera footage, as well as Alexa Plus summaries of detected camera events. These are the five new features Amazon highlighted for the Echo Hub:
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