Can you connect Alexa to your landline?

Both for the home office and for everyday life at home, it makes sense if you can use Alexa to receive and make calls from your landline. This is because it gives you independence and allows you to move freely around the house while making calls.

How to connect Alexa to landline

Connecting Alexa to landline is not complicated if you have the necessary devices available.

1. In order to pair your Amazon Echo or your Amazon Echo Dot with the landline, you need a stable WLAN connection as well as an Echo Connect Box.
2. The Echo Connect Box uses your phone line for this.
3. The Echo Connect Box costs 39.99 euros and is compatible with all generations of the Amazon Echo family.
4. You must first pair the Amazon Echo Connect Box with the WLAN and subsequently with your phone line.
5. Then you connect via the Alexa app your Echo device with the Connect Box. This process may take some time.
6. Now you can activate Alexa classically and use the command "Hey Alexa, call (name or phone number)."
7. If you want to accept a call, then you need to say "Alexa, accept the call."

Is the Connect Box helpful?

Even in the stress of everyday life, this device helps you to never miss a call again. But also especially for small children, seniors or people with handicap this function is a relief. Because with the connect box you can store contacts, whereby you only need the name to make a call.