Echo dot is a great product

So my brother thought it would be a cute thing every time one of my kids had a birthday to ship them a refurb dot (among other things) and the way our house is built, all the bedrooms are in the back and my son's room is the downstairs basement turned bedroom..DEFINITELY out of hearing range except when shouting and if the kids have on headphones or the music is turned up they won't hear us.

like an idiot yesterday i said out loud 'i wish these stupid amazon dots would function like an intercom'





well of course they do. in the last 12 hours this has become a life-changing feature.

i used it to call both girls to dinner last night while i lounged on the sofa sipping a bourbon and to tell my older daughter to get off her computer and go to bed (from the living room), and this morning my wife was in daugther#1's room and used it to page my son who was asleep downstairs in the basement bedroom that she was in a bind moving a mattress and he came up and helped her while she was still struggling.

frick wink relay. it cant activate room-to-room intercom via voice like this in such an easy, elegant way.

no hardware buttons to hold down, just say 'drop in' to open a dot-to-dot connection and have a conversation.