Can Alexa ZigBee? You need to know

ZigBee is a communication protocol used primarily in smart home devices. It is designed for energy-efficient transmission of small amounts of data. Amazon devices also support the wireless protocol. But not all Alexa devices understand the transmission protocol.

Does Alexa also support ZigBee?

In order to exchange data between different smart home devices, special protocols are needed. For this purpose, there are radio protocols such as Z-Wave, EnOcean, Bluetooth Smart and also ZigBee. These are primarily designed for the energy-efficient transmission of small amounts of data. Amazon offers numerous smart home devices with the voice assistant Alexa. However, not all of them also support the widely used ZigBee radio protocol.

1. Many devices that you can control with the Echo use the ZigBee protocol. These include, for example, the smart home lights of the Hue series from Philips.
2. Also Alexa flush-mounted switches from Busch-Jaeger, various OSRAM LEDs and wireless sockets from LUPUSEC support ZigBee.
3. Both Echo Show and Echo Plus have a built-in ZigBee smart home hub and can thus be connected to all devices that also support the protocol.
4. If you want to connect the devices via ZigBee, then this also works via the "Alexa app". Auch hier müssen Sie das Gerät lediglich hinzufügen und einen passenden Namen wählen. Bei neueren Alexa-Geräten erfolgt die Verbindung anschließend standardmäßig über ZigBee. Wahlweise funktioniert auch eine indirekte Verbindung über eine sogenannte Bridge.