Last year the multinational Jeff Bezos launched a new virtual assistant similar to Siri, Cortana and Google Now, a device that he is always attentive to everything his owners may say This device dubbed Alexa, Amazon's assistant, really is a device that we can place anywhere in the house and is continuously listening to the possible orders that we can give it, not only us but anyone who addresses it, since Add appointments to the calendar, let us play such a song, point out a product that we have run out of stock on the list.
But in the latest updates too has made it possible to integrate this device into the house demotic, so that we can configure it to turn off the lights in the house, lower the blinds, turn on the heating at that time ... In order to expand the services that the company offers us, Amazon has just announced that Alexa will be compatible with HomeKit so that we will be able to interact with the device through the dedicated application that will be launched in the new version of iOS 10 next September.
Alexa is now compatible with various smart devices such as a switch to control the on or off of lights, a thermostat, a switch as well as a bulb adapter compatible with non-smart bulbs on the market. Thanks to the integration of Alexa with HomeKit, all these devices can be controlled directly from the application of our iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch device.
The link will be made automatically, since we are only going to have to connect our Alexa to HomeKit so that the rest of connected smart devices appear in the application automatically, without having to add them manually.
