Echo Hub vs Echo Show 8: Watch THIS Before You BUY!
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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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An excellent contrast comparison. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you very much. I appreciate you watching.
Very good comparisons. I have the previous models of the Echo Show 8. Not in any rush to upgrade.
My apologies for the delayed response. I hope you are doing well. It is good to see you in the comments. Thank you very much. I appreciate the nice words. There really isn't much of reason to upgrade. The previous Echo Show 8s are great. If you aren't looking for a sound upgrade of the smart home hubs, not much reason.
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.
Thank you very much. You don't have to apologize. I appreciate you always being there at the lives and your support. I am with you on the $99 price tag. I wonder if it is going to catch on. I just want Apple to make a smart display.
Thanks Craig.
Thank you very much Ron.
UGH! In the last couple years Echo Show devices have just become Amazon billboards for obnoxious ads. There's no longer any way to disable those ads. DO NOT buy these, Amazon should pay you monthly to own these.
It is so annoying. There are flat out ads now. You look something up or something you bought before is on sale and you get a screen for it. I got an offer for car detailing supplies on sale. I am thinking of getting rid of most Echo shows, but they are currently clocks. Thanks for watching.
Hey Craig @3:15 you said the speakers are bigger on the Echo HUB, I am sure you meant Echo Show 8
Thanks for letting me know. You are right. I talk so much I end up missing these things. Thanks for watching.
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.
Hello William, I hope you are doing well. I am sorry for the late response. Thank you, you are too kind. I appreciate you watching and your support. I appreciate you being at the livestreams. Have a great week. Talk to you soon.
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
Thank you for sharing your setup. I am glad that the hub is working well for you. I hope you don't see any ads. I recently took a picture of a screen of car detailing stuff that was on sale.
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.
Hello Jack, I am sorry about the delayed response. I hope you are staying dry now in Sacramento. I like that you are using it instead of the keypad. That is a great idea and gets good use out of the hub. That is great that you hardwired it. I hope it is working well for you.
Hey there does the echo hub lag when ring doorbell is pressed? Can it answer ?
@@ahmedbachoo9112 2 second lag and yes 2 way audio
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?
I am sorry for the delayed response. I prefer Apple too, but I use Ring devices so they show up on my Echo Shows. You can get a HomeKit doorbell and it will pop up on Apple TVs and the Apple Home app on your devices.
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
Thank you very much. I am glad that I was able to put out a useful video. What a cool world it would be if Amazon, Google and Apple all took their walls down and worked together.
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????
Hello, I am sorry about the delayed response. I am glad to hear you got the Echo show 8 instead. I think that is the best balance of price to features. I do use Ring Cameras and Alarm. With the Echo Hub you can have it continuously show a camera. Unfortunately they time out and go back to the home screen on the Echo Show 8. As for connectivity they have been great. I have 5 stickup cams and the Ring Video Doorbell Pro. Thanks for watching.
@@CraigsTechTalk Thank you so much for your reply!!! I am having a heck of a time w/ my wired Blink flood light. All of sudden it lost connection and now will NOT accept my wifi password even though it is correct.
3:15 I think you meant to say that the speakers on the Echo Show 8 are bigger not the hub.
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
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.
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?
Not at all. It is the cloud delay with pretty much all cameras and echo shows.
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?
Does it fullscreen by default if your Echo is at the home screen?
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.
That makes sense to switch to habitat. The Echo hub is smart home cloud reliant. The most recent Echo Show 8 handles more offline control. It is so annoying that everything talks through the cloud. That is one of the benefits of Apple Home or going local like you are with another option.
I couldn`t not notice the note you have "don`t buy show 15 " 🤣
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.
I am with you. I hate that they are piecing out software across the different echo shows. None of the different sized echo show screens look a like now. Something is different with the software on each.
How we still don’t have a HomePod with a screen is mind boggling.
It is insane that Apple hasn't jumped on it in some for. Make it a dock for an iPad. Do something Apple. Thanks for watching.
Only going with Hub because of no ads. All i want is smart controls and clock
I really hope Amazon doesn't hose us with ads. But since it is meant primarily for a control panel, we should be good.
If only the echo show 8 3rd gen was available in Australia. We still have the 2nd gen only here.
That is a bummer it is not there yet. It is a nice improvement. Thanks for watching.
If your Echo Hub is in a dim room the clock won't display. I couldn't figure it out for about a week and then I realized if I let just a little more natural light into the room the clock screen would display.
Thank you for sharing this and for watching. Have a great day.
i wonder if you might have a hidden command like "Alexa, turn on the screen". There is a hidden command for Shows which is "Alexa, turn off the screen" which makes it go black. Handy for sleeping. When getting into bed with one's partner, one can whisper it. It can also be put into a routine, as a written voice command. This trick allows you to execute the command verbally by running a routine with the command in it. It allows the command to be run from any echo in the house, which otherwise can't done by speaking to another device. Saying "Alexa, turn off screen on Bedroom Show" on a different device won't work. The Routine can be simply named, like "Alexa, Goodnight" or " Alexa, off" which can be put on a schedule, turn off other things at bedtime, executed from outside the bedroom, or triggered by a motion detector etc. Multiple copies of the routine i.e.; "Screen off 12AM", "Screen off 3AM", "Screen off 6AM", could be set to run on a schedule to assure the screen stays off.
I’ll stick with my show 10. Thanks for the comparison.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching and the comment.
Wow, I am very glad I did not purchase neither Hub nor Show. All those advertisements would drive me bonkers. For my use the Echo Dot is perfect. All the other stuffs (stuffs is a highly technical term) I use Microsoft 365 Outlook and MS Edge.
I thought Amazon was going to provide a paid option for no ads but I still haven't seen it available. At this point I'd consider it because I'm tired of all the "sponsored" home cards. I've turned off everything else possible through the device and my Amazon account itself. Still, those ads persist.
yep, I have my Show 8 on dark sleep mode or whatever its called. Used to love having a slide show and the weather visible, but had to just put it on the nighttime mode for 23:59:00 a day. I'd NEVER buy one again.
I am with you Richard, it is obnoxious how many new sponsored screens they have now. You look something up and Amazon is there to help with offers. At least Amazon is listing them as sponsored so you know its a paid ad.
It is disappointing that you have to resort to just turning off the screen instead of enjoying the device as you bought it.
Started off with an Echo Spot which began flickering after two years and got binned. Our Echo Show 8 sits quietly in the kitchen and is used by my wife as a timer. Christmas time we have all the lights connected to smart plugs which saves crawling under the tree. That's all........
Does one of them have less of Amazon's recent bull$hit advertisements that their devices have been bombarding us with?
It has become ridiculous the number of ads. Amazon has broken a lot of people’s trust over the past couple of years.
@@CraigsTechTalk I saw something on reddit where a person suggested changing your language from English ( US) to English ( Canada) on the Show 8, which apparently gets rid of ads. I just changed my language, so I'm hoping it works. A lot of people said it worked for them, so it's worth a try.
Echo hub 8 vs echo show 15?
Definitely the Show 8. The 15 is overpriced the 8 is the best value for the features. Only the Fire TV option makes the 15 worth it.
I just find this so unreal. The Hub is what the Show should have been ALL along. They frustrate me so much with that.
You are so right about that. The Echo Show 8, 10 and 15 should all have the option. It shouldn't be about software choices. It should be like ordering a soda, small, medium or large, all the same taste. Thanks for watching.
@@CraigsTechTalk thank you!
I’m getting rid of all of them I’m paying for my stuff. I went to display what I want on the screen, not what you want to advertise bullshit?
I am with you on that. It is as if you don’t completely own Amazon devices. Amazon gets to do what they want too.