Alexa Smart Home 2019 - Devices you can control with Alexa | Part 1

Amazon echo and the digital voice assistant Alexa, formerly a digital gadget seeing the light of day, become more and more important in our life. Also from the Smart Home area, Alexa is slowly but surely becoming a real smart home diva. This is not only shown by the recently published Top Ten of Alexa Skills.

The control by voice of individual devices or gadgets such as radiator thermostats, roller shutters, light switches, sockets or LED lamps and lights up to the whole Smart Home systems, is no longer a problem for Alexa.

Even household and kitchen appliances such as vacuum robots, ovens, coffee machines, garden aids such as mowing robots and much more, listen to Alexa.

Here you can see an overview of the compatible devices Amazon Alexa offers you in combination with Smart Home.

Alexa Room Thermostats & Radiator Thermostats

Tado° - With tado° you can control your heating very intelligently, this should even work with 95% of all heaters. Here are a few well-known heating manufacturers that are compatible with tado°: "Bosch, Wolf, Buderus, Viessmann, Vaillant and many more". For those who don't have a room thermostat, tado° also offers smart radiator thermostats. The Munich-based company promises savings of up to 31% on heating costs.

The system should automatically detect whether you are at home, leaving the house or on your way home. Accordingly, the temperature is regulated and adjusted according to the weather forecast. The control takes place by App or even with the appropriate skill ** also with Alexa. You can use tado° both in your own house, and in a rented apartment.

Netatmo not only manufactures smart thermostats, but also offers a complete range of products for your Smart Home. Among others smoke detectors, security cameras called "Welcome and Presence", some devices for weather and indoor climate monitoring.

The manufacturer promises savings of up to 37% on heating costs for radiator thermostats. In the case of room thermostats, the so-called "Auto-Adapt function" should calculate the switch-on time, taking into account the insulation of the house and the outside temperature.

Nest - is already selling its smart WLAN thermostats in the third generation. According to the manufacturer, it should be compatible with around 95 percent of all systems on the market. The smart thermostat adapts to your daily routine and has sensors for temperature and humidity.

Controlling air conditioning with Alexa

Sensibo Sky is the name of the smart air conditioning control system from a start-up company. Sensibo was developed to make your existing air conditioner or heat pump intelligent and to control it via App or Alexa. Unfortunately, the app is only available in English at the moment.

Tado Smart AC Control V2, the manufacturer offers not only room and radiator thermostats, but also air conditioning and heat pump control. The Smart AC Control V2 should work with all air conditioners with remote control that display the current settings. Manufacturers like Samsung, Panasonic, LG, Toshiba and some more are compatible with it.

AirPatrol WLAN air conditioner control, this control works, according to manufacturer, with all mini split air conditioners brands.

Sichler WLAN heater, no control for the air conditioner, but an Alexa compatible ceramic heater. The maximum power here is 2000 watts, the temperature can be adjusted in 1° degree steps to 35° degrees.

Netatmo Weather Station - The Amazon bestseller No.1 is the weather station of Netatmo . It can provide the following information: CO2 content in the house, humidity, noise pollution and, of course, temperature.

Optionally you can buy the Netatmo rain gauge and the wind gauge for the weather station.

Alexa WLAN sockets

With the WLAN sockets (also known as adapter switches) you can not only switch your devices on and off, but with some models you can also keep an eye on the power consumption & temperature. With the previously created circuit diagrams, you can also switch your devices on and off automatically. In many cases Alexa's voice control is much more convenient.

Aqara Smart Plug is a new coming Alexa compatible device from the well known smart home brand Aqara, which provides smart home products at best price compared with others.

TP-Link WLAN socket is a very popular smart socket and is available in two models: With power monitoring (HS110) and without (HS100) It is also compatible with the IFTTT platform so that it also works with many other services and smart devices.

D-Link DSP-W115 is an alternative to TP-Link. As with the TP-Link socket, the maximum output is also 3680 watts and 16 amps. The IFTTT platform is also supported here.

Wemo Insight Switch from Belkin is also compatible with Alexa and IFTTT platforms. It can consume a maximum of 1800 watts of power and is integrated via WLAN.

Amazon Smart Plug - Amazon also offers a smart WLAN socket itself since October 2018. With a stated current of 10 amps, the Smart Plug can therefore consume 2300 watts of power.

Meross WLAN Socket provides a low-cost alternative ** from a startup (founded by experts who before founding for big names such as Microsoft. TP-Link, Cisco, etc.). It can take up maximally 3680 Watts and is compatible with the IFTTT platform.