Alexa Can Interact with Your Connected Devices Without You Asking

At the moment it is an update that only users in the United States will be able to take advantage of, but as soon as it reaches more countries it will be very important. Or so we think, because from now on Alexa will be able to perform actions without having to be asked , all based on your own habits and a higher level of proactivity.

Alexa wins in proactivity

Amazon has enabled users in the United States for now a new update that will make its voice assistant much more proactive on a day-to-day basis. And that is important, because among other things it will allow you to make decisions and perform certain actions without your having to intervene. Yes, it still sounds like a bad idea, but it is just the opposite as we see it.

Alexa Can Interact with Your Connected Devices

Currently, if you are an Alexa user, you will know that the assistant has been gaining in proactivity. An example is when you ask him for a specific date and he understands that you may be interested in creating a reminder on your calendar, so he proposes it. Well, now you are going to go one step further and thanks to your own habits you will learn until you reach the point where you could turn off the lights at home or interact with other connected devices without being asked .

It would be like that mother or father who comes to your room and if you see that you are doing something where you need more light, go and turn them on. Or just the opposite, when you’ve gone to sleep it comes and turns them off. Well, that’s what Alexa will do from this new update that Amazon began to roll out.

Permission to act, but not for everything

Of course, the more things Alexa is capable of doing, the easier it is to generate mistrust in certain users. For this reason and from what can be guessed on the Amazon support page, this level of proactivity would be configurable and it could be decided what type of actions to carry out or not.

Thus, hassles are avoided and if you do not want him to have the freedom to control the lights or any other connected object of the home, simply select it and go. Even if you don’t want him to make any decisions on his own, you can also set the behavior.

But if you have been using Alexa for a long time and you know well what it can contribute and the level of privacy it offers, chances are you are looking forward to this new feature arriving soon. Because being able to forget to ask for certain actions without having to resort to creating routines, etc. it is striking.

More news coming to Alexa

Along with this new way of behaving for Alexa, much more proactive, Amazon has also introduced some extra novelties. None of them are still available in Spain, although we believe that only the second is the one that could most interest most users.

The first novelty is a new payment service called Guard Plus, which for $ 4.99 per month allows you to use devices with Alexa as home guards. These thanks to their microphones can detect strange sounds and alert the emergency services through a staff in charge of doing it on your behalf. Interesting proposal, but to what extent could we trust that some kind of noise caused by yourself occurs and you don’t really need that emergency call.

The second novelty is much more attractive for everyone and in particular for users with a connected home that has a good number of devices. And is that thanks to a new energy panel, the consumption of each of these devices could be estimated (as long as they are compatible and their manufacturers enable this option). So it would be practical and despite not being exact, it would serve to have an estimate of consumption and avoid the purchase of dedicated devices.

In short, Amazon continues to improve Alexa and those of us who use it on a daily basis feel some envy that these news first arrive in the United States and are not more global launches.