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Echo Auto (1st gen) - Hands-free Alexa in your car with your phone

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Features

  • Add Alexa to your car - Connects to the Alexa app on your phone and plays through your cars speakers via auxiliary input or your smartphones Bluetooth connection. Includes Vent Mount.
  • Designed for the road - With 8 microphones and far-field technology, Echo Auto can hear you over music, A/C, and road noise.
  • Just ask - Use your voice to play music, check the news, make calls, add to your to do-list, set reminders, pay for gas, and more.
  • Do More with Auto Mode Turn your phone into a driver-friendly display that complements your Echo Auto. See what's playing and save time with easy-touch shortcuts to your favorite places, people, and content.
  • Check for compatibility Echo Auto is not compatible with all cars and phones. See if it will work for you below.

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    • Works well. Very handy once you realize exactly what it is.
I've had the Echo Auto since it was in preview and I gotta say I like it a lot. However this is not a full Echo device like a Dot or Echo. This is for all intents and purposes an alexa audio gateway device. I pondered how to configure it while I waited for it and the day of the install it just worked. Here is what I mean. Yes it has an aux output and built in microphones. The aux output however is completely optional. I have never used it once. It was powered on in my car but my phone was not connected to my stereo. I asked it something and the sound cam out of my phone. Light bulb moment. All the audio really comes from your phone. The auto device is basically a microphone to use alexa. Now I believe it will pump out all the audio through the aux port into your car but I find those wires to be....ugly. I have occasional car bluetooth glitches (ford sync issue) but the line in always works on my car, so when that happens I just turn on the bluetooth receiver I have and change inputs and literally nothing but the cars display changes.Where my aux input is vs where the device is mounted in my car would require me run a long cable and do a more complex install. Not something I want to do. The only time sound comes out of the device itself (yes there is a really tiny speaker in there) is when it can't connect to my phone. The alexa service runs in the app on your phone. As a design its both brilliant and frivolous. With no access to regular WiFi ti needs connectivity, your phone has connectivity so just use that. But wait, since your phone is also a very smart device, offload the processing there. Why, not just use the microphone on the phone itself? Because this way they can sell you an additional device. Some phones out there do have alexa voice activation but those seem to be mostly Motorola devices and myself I like Samsung devices better. Also being a child of the 80's I really like the blue voice bar, it makes me feel like I'm one step closer to talking to KITT in my car (I just REALLY wish it could use an alternate wake word). So with this all being said, its a handy way to use alexa hands free in places you can't normally use a Dot or Echo, or Show device because of network restrictions. That being said, for the price its great. I've had it in multiple vehicles from my 01 Mustang, to my 15 Fusion and Explorer. Connect your phone to a bluetooth speaker or car after you set up the device, give the device power and your DONE. I'me even thinking or ordering another one for my office, since I miss having alexa at work and I can not connect it to my office WiFi because of security. But I do have a nifty bluetooth speaker and extra charger. I use it routinely to place phone calls more easily than the Ford Sync voice commands. Listen to my flash news briefing for customized news during my commute. Play music etc. I won't lie, as much as I use my Echos and Dots for home automation and smart home stuff I have never bothered with it in the car the the echo dot. Drop in works well enough though. Would I prefer to not have the cost of hardware to use alexa? Yes. Am ?I truly bummed about it? No. Truthfully, I think the extra microphone array works better than just using the one in my phone. So in that respect would I buy it again? If I look at it as an alexa helper device or audio gateway absolutely. Previous to having alexa everywhere in my house, I used google assistant and it had trouble hearing me in the car with the road noise. My echo auto almost never has that issue. So in that respect its worth it to me as I am part of that ecosystem already (Echo 1st gens in bedroom and living room, Dots with better speakers in the kids rooms and garage, Show 1st gen in my kitchen and more smart home tech than my wife can stand). Verdict? Buy it, but understand what it actually is when you do. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2020 by Ryan Robinson
    • Works fine - despite other reviews saying otherwise
I don't write many reviews at all, almost never, but I read through some of the other reviews slamming this echo auto 1st gen. Some of them say wait for the 2nd gen feature enhancements, and some say this 1st gen doesn't even work - Hmm. This 1st gen has 8 microphones vs the 2nd gen upcoming later this month (Oct. 2022) - which only has 5 microphones, but will allow you to call for roadside assistance and is somewhat smaller. But, I mean if you are rolled over in a car and it shuts off - then you aren't gonna be able to say 'Alexa call roadside' anyway. Most likely you would still use Siri or Google on your phone to tell them to make an emergency call. if you aren't rolled over and just on the side of the road, why do you need a second gen. echo auto with less microphones to call roadside for you? To be fair, the 2nd gen echo auto will do a quick charge of your phone and has an adhesive mount for placement other than on your car vent. By the way, you need a horizontal car vent slat to use the mount for the 1st gen otherwise find some double sided tape / velcro or buy the second gen. Personally, I don't want adhesive anything on my dash or console of my car though. It's better to place this higher up and in the center anyway to avoid speakers and possible road / engine noise. As to this 1st gen not working, well the rants on the reviews included things like, I don't have bluetooth in my car but why all the cords. Well, if you don't have bluetooth, then you NEED some way for audio to get from the Alexa and down into your car speakers right? So, you use the aux cable, and of course the main cable is always required for power. By the way, audio through an aux cable is going to be clearer and not be subject to frequency interferences from other 2.4ghz signals, but it is somewhat possible to get feedback on a ground loop on the cable. As far as using both cables, I guess maybe if auto makers one day place USB C and not USB A in car ports, then it will be possible to use just 1 cord for data (music to your car) and power at the same time. Other reviews said the Echo Auto won't work only for a few minutes and you have to have the Alexa / Echo app open every time you get in the car. No problem there either, at least on my iPhone. I open the Alexa / Echo app and just don't close it, it stays idle in the background if I don't flick it up and off the screen to force close, which I think Android has the same background app feature as well. So, when I get in my car it takes about 1-2 minutes for everything to sync up once my car is started, but I am ready to go. I read other reviews about bad connection from the phone to the echo auto, but most of them were from 2018 or so and I'm sure the software has been updated, because I have no issue with it ever disconnecting from the phone. Echo Auto uses the processing of your phone to do its work, so if its slow its probably not just the bluetooth connection from you phone, most likely you should take a look at things on your phone like unnecessary background app refreshes or unnecessary location services, etc. on other apps too. I have added a wireless Apple CarPlay dongle to my custom Android car stereo. So, this works great because I use Apple CarPlay for navigation and Siri commands and on screen visual (when I get near my home the garage door automatically shows up on my screen and I can press it and my garage can be fully open by the time I pull into the driveway, unlike waiting 30 seconds for it to open when I use the button on the visor from very close to my home). In other words, using Alexa and Siri is seamless. I can't use Siri to say disarm my Ring alarm, but I can with Alexa ... all in the same vehicle as I'm about 3 blocks from my house. Of course if you don't use CarPlay or Android Auto visual, and don't have it, then keeping the Alexa app open provides you with Alexa Auto visual for navigation, especially if you don't have any way to put in a touch screen in your car. Also, noteworthy, if you have wired Android Auto or wired Apple CarPlay, built into your car, then when you sync with the USB cable from your phone to the car, depending on the software versions, you can have issues. The same is true with older Apple iOS software. It's a good idea to update your software on your phone to make it run smooth with Echo Auto. I am not sure how well Echo Auto navigation works as compared to Apple or Android, but probably not quite as good, at least for now. But since Amazon is producing a gen 2 Echo Auto and has had Amazon Auto mode on their app for a couple years, I think that it will improve. It doesn't matter which platform you use, none of them can ever navigate you perfectly and you can get on a back road or not be instructed to turn somewhere that you could have (shorter path) because the maps don't update in real time whenever a city adds a street or blocks one off, etc. It does come with a dual USB port cigarette adapter, so you can plug in the Echo Auto and another device too, but don't expect charging to be as fast if you do use both. Some cars have other cigarette lighter 12v ports, or other USB ports for charging - which is going to split up the workload and charge faster. If you use your car's USB port you could get warnings about the power usage, because some cars output 1.2A and some are 2.0A. I recommend using the cigarette adapter that came with the Echo Auto. And the last thing I have to say is, I got a superb deal on the gen 1 because the gen 2 is coming out in a couple weeks. So, saving big was great for me. I am happy with my gen 1 but if you get a great deal on the gen 2 or not, the $54.99 2nd gen ... is a little high for my tastes and I would say wait for a sale. So ask Alexa to call one of your contacts or ask her for a number wherever you want to call (i.e. Alexa what's the number to XYZ), then tell her to call the number she gave you, or for your flash briefing on your way to work, or directions, or listen to a podcast on your commute, or to play music, or the weather, or to arm your Ring alarm in Away mode, that you might have forgot on your way out, or to unlock your smart lock right before you get to your driveway, or drop in on an echo at your house to talk to family without even having to call ... the list goes on. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2022 by Y-O_MING

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