Echo Hub vs Echo Show 8: Watch THIS Before You BUY!
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Published 2024-03-07
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Should you buy the New Amazon Hub or the Echo Show 8 3rd Generation? Before you decide you need to see the differences. One brings you better smart home control. While the other is much better for media. But both of them bring you the same Alexa features. They also can take care of your smart home with the Zigbee hub, Thread Border router and Matter controller.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Have in Common
02:12 Smart Home Control
03:10 Big Sound Difference
04:25 Camera and Proximity Sensor
05:46 Interface Comparison
08:38 Performance
09:33 Recommendations
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All Comments (21)
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An excellent contrast comparison. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
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Hey Craig @3:15 you said the speakers are bigger on the Echo HUB, I am sure you meant Echo Show 8
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Very good comparisons. I have the previous models of the Echo Show 8. Not in any rush to upgrade.
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Great video as always, Craig! I’m sorry didn’t watch it last week and I’m sorry that it didn’t get the numbers you were expecting. I can see a future for the echo hub as a Walmart device when matter and the controller features become more standardized across the different platforms.I’m more of an apple guy right now so I can’t imagine getting one, if it was $99 I might give it a second look though.
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Thanks Craig.
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3:15 I think you meant to say that the speakers on the Echo Show 8 are bigger not the hub.
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Craig as always, thank you so much for the content you give us. This was very informative and yes as a device just to control your home. The echo hub is a great choice. Once again, I hope you and your family have a great weekend. Enjoy.
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Greg need your help. All I need is screen is for the ring camera live view when somebody walks near front door. I prefer Apple everything and I am dreading getting to Alexa. Any suggestions or better alternatives?
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I wanted the Hub and hubby got me the echo show 15 for Christmas. I sent it back and figured I would wait for the Hub. Then saw a great deal on the Echo Show 8 so picked it up and it is in my kitchen. Now I really want the Hub too LOL. I do have a question...are you using Ring cameras? We have Blink cameras and not really happy with connectivity and I can't figure out how to get continual live feed to show up on my Show 8 or if it is even possible????
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Just watched a bit more of the video and it looks like the Hub has a lack of ads... for now. They already violated my trust, though. You can be sure they are luring you into paying double for something with worse sound because it currently has no to little ads. They will just turn a bunch of ads on with a firmware update, which is why I don't want to buy any more of these devices until I absolutely need to.
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Sleight mistake noted at the 3:15 mark. You say “the speakers are much bigger on the Echo Hub” when you’re referring to the show… minor edit
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I have eufy cameras and I've heard people say they have a lot of issues pulling up their cameras quickly on the echo show devices. Is it noticiably faster on the echo hub?
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How we still don’t have a HomePod with a screen is mind boggling.
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I changed to a habitat hub to remove my smart home manufacturers cloud delay. What I want to know is will the Echo hub remove my smart home cloud reliance? Reason is I am sick of giving a voice smart home command and depending on time of day depends on how much delay there is as sometimes it would be quicker to just walk over and do it manually which makes all the money spent wasted. Any help would be most appreciated.
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Has anyone figured out how to always make the ring camera pop up full screen everytime when the doorbell rings instead of the pip view?
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I have both and the hub being on kitchen is great for just controlling and general have radio . The Echo 8 is in sitting room and totally agree music is awesome . I don’t notice ads but like you Craig it’s all turned off
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Thank you for this detailed review, you read our minds, now we just wish the echo devices worked with Apple TV boxes. Take care and thanks Craig
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This should be a software update which allows for existing hardware to switch between a media focus versus a smart home focus. Instead they charge more for less (no speaker) and for the exact same hardware. Amazon is frustrating customers with this kind of thing and with the ads and auto-adding skills which were never installed by the owners.
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Hey Craig. I use both. The Echo hub replaced my alarm keypad. The Show 8 sits on my desk. Both work great. BTW I have the Echo Hub hardwired.
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I couldn`t not notice the note you have "don`t buy show 15 " 🤣
