Echo Show 8

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• 5.0 out of 5 stars Blown Away – Best Echo Yet!

  Reviewed in Canada on July 11, 2025

  This Echo Show 8 completely exceeded my expectations. The sound quality is amazing—it actually feels like a mini home speaker system with rich bass and crisp clarity. Whether I’m playing music, watching videos, or just listening to the news, it sounds fantastic.

  The display is super sharp and bright, and it automatically adjusts to the lighting in the room, which makes it perfect for any time of day. Alexa feels faster and smarter, and the responses are almost instant.

  I use it every day—for checking weather, playing music, making video calls, controlling lights, and even watching YouTube and recipe videos. It’s become such a natural part of my daily routine. The built-in smart home hub is also a huge plus—makes managing everything so simple.

  It looks clean and modern too. The Charcoal finish gives it a premium feel. Honestly, this is probably the most useful and enjoyable smart device I own. I would 100% recommend it to anyone!

  

  5.0 out of 5 stars

  Blown Away – Best Echo Yet!

  Reviewed in Canada on July 11, 2025

  This Echo Show 8 completely exceeded my expectations. The sound quality is amazing—it actually feels like a mini home speaker system with rich bass and crisp clarity. Whether I’m playing music, watching videos, or just listening to the news, it sounds fantastic.

  The display is super sharp and bright, and it automatically adjusts to the lighting in the room, which makes it perfect for any time of day. Alexa feels faster and smarter, and the responses are almost instant.

  I use it every day—for checking weather, playing music, making video calls, controlling lights, and even watching YouTube and recipe videos. It’s become such a natural part of my daily routine. The built-in smart home hub is also a huge plus—makes managing everything so simple.

  It looks clean and modern too. The Charcoal finish gives it a premium feel. Honestly, this is probably the most useful and enjoyable smart device I own. I would 100% recommend it to anyone!

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• 5.0 out of 5 stars muy buen dispositivo

  Reviewed in Mexico on April 28, 2026

  El dispositivo cuenta con el tamaño necesario y la resolucion para poder apreciar videos, series, etc; sin perder detalles, su audio proporciona una excelente calidad; su camara te permite realizar videollamadas de muy buena calidad incluso en lugares con poca luz, un detalle ideal es que te permite tener privacidad al bloquear el visor frontal de la camara
  

• 5.0 out of 5 stars It is awesome!

  Reviewed in Canada on December 10, 2025

  I upgraded to a Show 8, as my generation 1 Echo Plus doesn't support Alexa+. So this was a combination of a better unit and future proofing. The Show 8 contains three different styles of Hubs, so should work with just about any smart device.

  The Show 8 has a crisp and clear screen and the speakers are a huge upgrade over the Echo Plus style device. Audio feels like it fills the room much more so, rather than originating in one place. I'm primarily using the Show 8 as a voice interface, but had to use the Touchscreen a little during setup.

  Setup was extremely easy. I plugged it in. A minute later is asked if I was (my name) and when I clicked yes it then joined the network entirely on its own. I now have the Show 8, Echo Plus, and an Echo Dot, and depending where I am, any one of the three seamlessly answers me.

  The audio is the massive upgrade although using Alexa+ features is what I bought it for.

• 5.0 out of 5 stars Funciones!

  Reviewed in Mexico on April 14, 2026

• 4.0 out of 5 stars Setting Up for Multiple Cameras, refer back to this if you get stuck

  Reviewed in Canada on December 29, 2024

  This information is hard to find, it displays your cameras, not just the doorbell, it also switches the cameras off after a set time. This information will save you months of frustration:

  Instructions for Echo Show 8 live camera view routines
  How do you get an Amazon Echo Show 8 device to display the Live View Camera when motion detection occurs on Ring devices? The SKILLS option doesn't work for live view after motion detected. Amazon will not tell you this. I spent one hour on the phone with customer service and they were worthless. It has taken a month to figure this out.

  Here is a solution that that currently works for me, I have an Echo Show 8, and a Ring Pro HD FloodLight/Camera. Also, I am using an Iphone Alexa app. Also works on Android.

  Sorry for the length, trying to be thorough. Please post a reply if this works for you. I have it running with multiple Ring devices.

  First, make sure you can see the Live View camera from your Ring device on you Echo Show.

  Example-> Alexa, Show Front Door (or whatever you named your device)
  Next, make sure you can stop the Live View camera on your Echo Show from your Ring.

  Example-> Alexa, Stop
  If you can do these 2 things, proceed. We are going to be using these 2 commands.

  You will need 2 Routines for each camera, I’ll the use the Pro HD Doorbell as the example below;

  Why 2 Routines? Because the “Custom Action” that tells Alexa to execute Commands must be the Last Action defined in the Routine, so we can’t use 1 Routine to issue multiple Alexa Commands. We are going to use the Alexa Commands; {Alexa, Show Front Door} and {Alexa, Stop}, hence the test above. Also and most importantly, multiple Routines can be triggered from the same Motion Event on the same device, at the same time, this allows us to do multiple things in parallel!!

  These 2 routines will be executed in parallel when Motion is detected on your Ring device;

  the 1st routine detects Motion on a Pro HD Doorbell and Shows the Doorbell Live View camera
  the 2nd routine detects the same Motion on the same Pro HD Doorbell, Waits 4 minutes and Stops the Doorbell Live View camera
  To simplify, 2 Routines detect the same Motion at the same time, one turns on Live View, the other waits 4 minutes and turns Live View off.

  Open the Amazon Alexa App to create the 1st Routine;

  Select -> More

  Select -> Routines

  Select -> + to add a new routine

  Select -> + Enter routine name – example-> FD-Cam Show

  Select -> Next

  Select -> + When this happens

  Select -> Smart Home

  Select -> FrontDoorCamera (or whatever you called your doorbell/camera)

  Select -> Motion

  Select -> Detected

  Select -> Next

  Select -> + Add action

  Select -> Custom (scroll to the bottom of the list, also this Custom action has to be the last item in the Routine…)

  Input -> type in the input field–> Show Front Door (this will tell Alexa to Start Showing Live View at the FrontDoorCamera)

  Select -> Next (You will see this entered in the Action section as the Command, “Alexa, Show Front Door”)

  Scroll down if needed

  Select -> From \ Choose Device

  Select -> your “Echo Show Device” that you want the Live View camera to be shown on

  Select -> Save

  Continue in the Amazon Alexa app to create the 2nd Routine;

  Select -> + to add a new routine

  Select -> + Enter routine name – example -> FD-Cam Stop

  Select -> Next

  Select -> + When this happens

  Select -> Smart Home

  Select -> FrontDoorCamera (or whatever you called your doorbell/camera)

  Select -> Motion

  Select -> Detected

  Select -> Next

  Select -> + Add action

  Select -> Wait

  Enter time duration for the Doorbell Camera to be in Live View (I used 4 minutes, 1 minute works great for testing)

  Select -> Next

  Select -> + Add action

  Select -> Custom (scroll to the bottom of the list, also this Custom action has to be the last item in the Routine…)

  Input -> type in the input field–> Stop (this will tell Alexa to Stop Showing the Live View at the FrontDoorCamera)

  Select -> Next (You will see this entered in the Action section as the Command, “Alexa, Stop”)

  Scroll down if needed

  Select -> From \ Choose Device

  Select -> your “Echo Show Device” that you want the Live View camera to be shown on

  Select -> Save

  You're welcome... I have it running with multiple Ring devices.

  Update and summary: I have a camera called front lawn Cam
  - When detects motion, anytime (in when)
  - show front lawn cam (in Custom)
  - wait 10 seconds (adjust to what you want in wait)
  - stop front lawn cam (in custom)
  - Wait 5 seconds (in wait)
  - Echo show show home screen (in custom, otherwise the camera will stay on the screen, and if you close the echo show screen with a command after the camera has been on, it doesn't open again for the next camera movement, so show home screen is best)

  It now fully functions for the reason I bought it, has taken me about 20 hours of adding and removing commands.