Recent developments in smart home technology are providing homeowners and families with more and more options when it comes to connecting their devices to each other. It’s getting easier to control your devices remotely and keep an eye on your home from no matter where you are. Smart home hubs like the Zigbee allow you to connect many products around your home through a smooth and seamless experience.

Read on to learn more about the Zigbee hub and how to make it work in your home with Alexa devices.

Can I Connect My Zigbee to Alexa

Devices?

Zigbee is a wireless mesh network that allows the smart devices in your home to work together. This complete and interoperable IoT device comes at a relatively affordable price. It uses low power to deliver low-latency communication between your products. It’s a great tool to have if there’s a variety of smart devices around your home.

Once it’s integrated with your home, the Zigbee can:

  • Improve your home’s comfort by
  • changing the temperature, controlling lights, opening drapes, and moreHelp protect your home by alerting
  • you about intruders, smoke in the home, and even water leaksGive you access to your home from
  • anywhere in the world

When you’re building the smart technology in your home, (like lights, locks, or wall switches) and connecting them to your Zigbee, you can seamlessly add voice control with Alexa. Take remote control of your devices to the next level with simple voice commands.

Connecting Your Alexa Devices to

Your Zigbee

  • Plugin your smart speaker to an outlet and find your WiFi network.Connect your Echo Plus and your smartphone’s Alexa app to your home WiFi network.Make sure your Zigbee is nearby.Ask Alexa to “Discover devices.”Alexa will locate compatible devices within seconds and connect to them.Name your discovered devices in the Alexa app.

Now, you can start controlling your devices with your Alexa device.

Building Your Smart Home with

Zigbee

When you’re shopping around for devices to add to your smart home, it’s important to consider which are compatible. You’ll know your devices can integrate with each other because their developers make sure to label them accordingly.

The Works with Alexa program shows consumers that a product has been reviewed and developed to ensure a hassle-free integration experience. Products will have a Works with Alexa badge that tells you the device is compatible with your smart home setup before purchasing.

There’s also a label for Zigbee Certified devices. Look for this badge to ensure the interoperability between your devices and achieve a consistent, seamless user experience.

After integrating your devices with Alexa, you can use the built-in Smart Home voice user interface to control them. With this connectivity to Alexa, you have the freedom to choose how to connect your devices. This flexibility lets you set up your home however you want. The goal of smart home technology is to customize your experience to what you and your family need the most.

Routines is a great tool from Alexa that allows you to automate actions in your home. You have the ability to trigger a series of actions for various devices. Trigger these actions with a single command or set it up to start automatically at a certain time of the day.

This is a great option to start your day on the right foot. Set up the automation to open the windows, play an upbeat playlist, adjust the temperature in your home, and maybe even starting a pot of coffee after you say, “Good morning, Alexa.”

To start setting up Routines, follow these steps in the Alexa app:

  • In the menu, select Routines.Tap the plus icon, then select When This Happens.Choose how to trigger the Routine. (You can set up sensor Routines by selecting your installed motion or contact sensor.)Select Add action to choose which action(s) to complete. If you’d like to receive a Push Notification when motion or contact sensor is triggered, Tap Send notification.Under the From section, choose which device controls the Routine. Tap Create.

If you ever want to edit or remove a Routine, visit the Routines section in the Alexa app. Choose a Routine in the Enabled section and make your desired changes.

Groups is another tool from Alexa that allows you to control the devices in the same room. That way, you don’t have to remember each device’s name. Instead, you can group nearby or compatible devices and control them all together by saying a simple command like “Lights on” or “Turn on [Group Name].”

To start creating smart home device Groups, follow these steps in the Alexa app:

  • In the menu, select the Devices icon.Tap the plus icon, then select Add Group.You can use pre-set Group names or create your own. Then, tap Next.Select the devices you want to include, then tap Save.

More about the Zigbee and How You

Can Integrate It in Your Smart Home

The Zigbee mesh network and smart home hub is a great tool to have in your home when you’re adding more Smart Home devices. The Zigbee Alliance allows developers to manufacture their products to be certified to use with Zigbee. The Zigbee Certified badge lets you know which devices will work seamlessly in your home.