Control4 Alexa Integration UK

MSRP: Included with a Control4 system with 4Sight subscription (And separate purchase of Amazon Echo)

Describe your product's design and / or technological innovation.

The Control4 Smart Home Skill for Amazon Echo provides users with the ability to control nearly 10,000 home automation, entertainment, security devices and more with voice. Homeowners with Control4 and Amazon Echo can use to the skill to intuitively control anything in their home through simple voice commands, and even multiple devices simultaneously through custom, pre-set scenes. For example, say “Alexa, turn on Movie Night,” and the thermostat will turn up, the shades will close, and the TV will turn on the Blu-ray player. Or homeowners can say “Alexa, dim the lights to 60 percent,” to control a set of lights in one room.

Describe the benefits that your product provides to the integrator.

For integrators, Amazon Alexa integration presents a new opportunity to gain new customers. Homeowners with an Echo device in their house are getting their first taste of an intelligent home, which positions dealers to show what else they can do with home automation using Control4 with a device that they’re already comfortable with. They can show homeowners what can be done with Echo, and use it as a building block for new business, or to expand on their current customer’s systems who want to control more with their voice.
Control4 homeowners also get even more out of the Echo integration with their dealers, who can remotely program additional capability to use voice commands to close the blinds, turn on the TV, or start music throughout the home.

Describe the benefits that your product provides to the end user.

Interacting with devices in the home is simple and intuitive using Amazon Alex integration with Control4. Homeowners with Control4 can choose to control nearly 10,000 devices in their home by choice of their voice, the Control4 App, the Apple Watch App, a handheld remote, custom keypads, or touchscreens. Control of everything including lighting, music, climate control, door locks, shades, entertainment devices and even specialty devices like a gas fireplace makes managing a home easier. With programmable scenes, homeowners can customize their experience to easily active multiple devices simultaneously for movie night, cooking, dinner, or arming the house.
With voice control, Control4 homeowners can now do all of this without picking up a device. They can easily communicate their commands to the Amazon Echo, Tap or Dot device in their home with a simple command. “Alexa, turn on Cooking,” can turn on a fan, brighten up the kitchen, play a pre-set Pandora playlist and open the shades. Other voice control options may require users to say a manufacturer’s name in the command, but the Control4 Smart Home Skill allows the simplest, and most natural control by allowing users to directly mention their pre-set scenes or control individual devices by name.

https://www.control4.com/o/alexa