Home LivingSmart HomeAmazon’s Map View delivers major upgrade that Alexa smart home users will loveAmazon Map View creates a digital floor plan of your Alexa smart devicesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Home LivingSmart HomeAmazon’s Map View delivers major upgrade that Alexa smart home users will loveAmazon Map View creates a digital floor plan of your Alexa smart devicesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Amazon Map View creates a digital floor plan of your Alexa smart devices
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Amazon)
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Amazonhas just rolled out a new user interface in theAlexaapp. Now available in Public Preview from 14th November, Amazon’s Map View helps you tweak your smart home set-up to perfection, and makes it far easier to scroll through your many smart devices.
Amazon is a dominant brand in the smart home market, with its range of Echosmart speakersand displays and its Ring and Blink smart security devices, including thebest security camerasand thebest video doorbells. If you have any (or all) of these smart devices, then you’ll appreciate this major upgrade to the Alexa app.
With a focus on optimising your smart home, Amazon has createdMap View. Dubbed as a “new experience in the Alexa app”, Map View provides users a simple way to view, manage and control their smart home devices in a single glance. Rather than scrolling through a list of devices, Map View creates virtual floor plans of your home to give you an entire birds-eye view of your devices.
(Image credit: Amazon)
(Image credit: Amazon)
Once you’ve created a floor plan and added your devices, you can easily manage, interact and customise your smart home. Rather than relying on remembering the names for your many gadgets, Amazon’s Map View uses little icons or badges to show you what the device is and its status.
Using the Map View, you can clearly see what each device is doing at any given time. For example, you can turn yoursmart lightson or off, check if your devices are having any connectivity problems and view and adjust the temperature on yoursmart thermostat. You can also organise and group devices in each room for better schedules and routines. All it takes is a few taps, making the app experience much smoother and more streamlined.
The new Map View is a pretty good upgrade for the Alexa app, but is it reallythatrevolutionary? In the grand scheme of things, no not really! But if you can’t remember what name you’ve given a device, it’s a handy way to see everything at a glance rather than having to scroll through a huge list of device titles.
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Amazon’s Map View is currently available to try through Public Preview and is expected to launch on the Alexa app later this year on select smartphones, tablets andiOSdevices.
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