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The Control4 App lets you easily connect and control your lights, locks, shades, AC, music, AV and more from the most popular smartphones and tablets available – iPhones, iPads, Android smartphones and tablets, and now the Amazon Fire.

We knew it would be important for our tech-savvy customers to have access to control and command your smart home from the latest and greatest smartphone-the Amazon Fire-as soon as it shipped.”

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Amazon says its Fire phone will initially come with a year membership of free Amazon Prime benefits, and includes an entirely new sensor system called Dynamic Perspective which responds to the way you hold, view and move the phone, 3D and face-recognition technology (the screen actually moves with your eyes!) and Amazon Firefly’s technology, which lets you point the phone at items and click to identify them.Īs Control4 CEO Martin Plaehn noted, “Control4 customers are on the cutting-edge of technology adoption. Today, Amazon started shipping its new Fire phone and the Control4 App will be among the first apps available for customers. We can also imagine smart home builders installing a Fire HR tablet on a wall mount in the kitchen, giving them a smart home control center right where they need it, and neatly lifted up off the table or work surface.On Amazon’s Fire phone, that is.

You might be in a room without an Alexa device to hear your command, or you might want to make an adjustment to your smart home at night without waking someone up. We think this is a great idea, as sometimes it isn't practical to ask Alexa to control a smart home device. While devices can be controlled using this app, management of them (such as creating rooms and zones, or renaming devices) still requires the Alexa app.ĭevice Dashboard on an Amazon Fire HD tablet Amazon It is also worth noting how this comes soon after the launch of the new fourth-generation Amazon Echo smart speaker, which has support for Zigbee smart home devices, and control of these is now possible through the Device Dashboard. If this sounds familiar, then it looks similar to the Home apps offered by Google and Apple on their smartphones and tablets, so it's a case of Amazon playing catch-up. The app is available on Fire HD tablets from 2018 onwards, Amazon says, adding how the system "provides a simple and convenient way to control smart home products that work with Alexa, such as smart lights, cameras, thermostats, switches, and plugs." The application is opened by tapping on the new Smart Home button on the left side of the tablet's navigation bar.

It has been another slow year for Amazon's Alexa skills platform.

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How to get started with Amazon Alexa: A complete guide.

Amazon has just started to roll out a new feature to its Fire tablets called Device Dashboard.Įxclusive to its own Fire-branded tablets, Device Dashboard acts like a control center for your smart home, including buttons for controlling everything from lights and plugs, to switches and security cameras.