Amazon Echo Show 8, With Spatial Audio, Smart Home Hub, ideal for open living spaces, Designed for Alexa+, Charcoal

The perfect kitchen companion
I absolutely love my white Amazon Echo Show 8—it has become one of the most useful and enjoyable additions to my kitchen. The clean white design looks modern and minimal, and it blends beautifully with my kitchen décor without feeling bulky or out of place on the counter.One of my favorite things about it is how convenient it makes everyday tasks. While I’m cooking, I can simply ask Alexa to pull up recipes, set multiple timers, convert measurements, or add items to my grocery list without having to stop what I’m doing. The 8-inch screen is the perfect size—large enough to easily read recipes or watch quick cooking videos, but compact enough that it doesn’t take up too much counter space.I also love using it to play music or podcasts while I’m in the kitchen. The sound quality is surprisingly great, filling the room without sounding tinny or too loud. It makes cooking, cleaning, and even just making coffee in the morning feel more enjoyable.Another feature I use a lot is the ability to quickly check the weather, calendar reminders, and news while I’m starting my day. The display quality is bright and clear, and the touchscreen is very responsive. It’s also nice that it can show rotating photos when it’s idle—it almost feels like a digital picture frame, which adds a cozy touch to the kitchen.Overall, the Echo Show 8 has been incredibly practical and fun to use. It keeps me organized, entertained, and makes cooking so much easier. If you’re looking for a smart display that’s functional, stylish, and easy to use, I highly recommend it. It has truly become a little kitchen assistant that I didn’t realize I needed but now wouldn’t want to live without.

Highly recommend
I love love love this device it’s great quality nice big screen 🤩 my son got it for me because I tend to forget things so I mainly use it for my reminders 😁 it’s really easy to use and setup 👌 it does a lot more than just reminders 😁 plays your favorite songs 👍 her responses are very clear and easy to understand 👍 I would highly recommend.

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!

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.

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 routinesHow 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, StopIf 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 camerathe 2nd routine detects the same Motion on the same Pro HD Doorbell, Waits 4 minutes and Stops the Doorbell Live View cameraTo 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 -> MoreSelect -> RoutinesSelect -> + to add a new routineSelect -> + Enter routine name – example-> FD-Cam ShowSelect -> NextSelect -> + When this happensSelect -> Smart HomeSelect -> FrontDoorCamera (or whatever you called your doorbell/camera)Select -> MotionSelect -> DetectedSelect -> NextSelect -> + Add actionSelect -> 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 neededSelect -> From Choose DeviceSelect -> your “Echo Show Device” that you want the Live View camera to be shown onSelect -> SaveContinue in the Amazon Alexa app to create the 2nd Routine;Select -> + to add a new routineSelect -> + Enter routine name – example -> FD-Cam StopSelect -> NextSelect -> + When this happensSelect -> Smart HomeSelect -> FrontDoorCamera (or whatever you called your doorbell/camera)Select -> MotionSelect -> DetectedSelect -> NextSelect -> + Add actionSelect -> WaitEnter time duration for the Doorbell Camera to be in Live View (I used 4 minutes, 1 minute works great for testing)Select -> NextSelect -> + Add actionSelect -> 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 neededSelect -> From Choose DeviceSelect -> your “Echo Show Device” that you want the Live View camera to be shown onSelect -> SaveYou’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.