Works with | Amazon Alexa

Home Connect lets you easily control your connected home appliances via Amazon Echo. Use your voice to start programs, make settings or simply to ask about a current status. Not only can you connect your home appliances to the Internet, you can also benefit from a number of digital products and services.

Amazon Alexa and Home Connect

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Smart voice: Routines with Amazon Alexa!

Amazon Echo Show in Siemens kitchen in front of connected oven

Get your favorite coffee via voice!

Thanks to Home Connect and Amazon Alexa you can directly communicate with your compatible, smart home appliances – and create individual Alexa routines. Set your specific voice commands for Alexa to automatically use several functions and control your home in a smart way. The Alexa routines are your daily helper and set up quickly. Go to the Alexa skills store and search for “Home Connect”, where you will find information, which smart home appliance category supports the routine functionality.

Amazon Skill Store

With the routines functionality of Amazon Alexa and Home Connect you control your smart home appliances. When you get up, during household duties or while preparing dinner: You name it and the routines bring the little extra to your life.

Start your day for example simply with „Alexa, start my coffee machine” to get your favorite coffee while you are getting your morning shower.
Also during the day, you can choose from a variety of different coffee specialties. Create individual routines for any event.
See our step by step instructions on how to set up routines here !

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Control your home appliances simply via voice

Siemens coffee machine placed in a kitchen next to the Amazon Echo device.

The best way to prepare a lasagne with your oven? Alexa can help

What temperature? Direct heat or steam? You might be unsure about the optimal settings for your oven and individual taste. Fortunately, Amazon Alexa is always there to help you, whether it’s your next culinary masterpiece or a simple and quick dish. Ask Alexa how to cook fresh lasagne, and she’ll recommend the best settings for your oven. Just tell her, and of course, she will also start the oven for you.

Amazon Echo on a work surface on which dough is currently being kneaded to bake in a Home Connect oven.

Hot and simple: Cooking and baking with Alexa

Connect Alexa to your oven and cooker hood, control it with your voice and call up its status at any time. Have your hands free for pots and pans, and still be able to control your hood to keep the air in your kitchen fresh and clean with just your voice.

And, when you’ve already sat down for dinner, you can say “Alexa, ask My Hood to turn on the ambient light” to set the right atmosphere. You always have everything under control and save any unnecessary trips.

Truly impressive: Making coffee with Alexa

"Alexa, tell my coffee machine to make a cappuccino." You can use this and many other commands to easily control your Home Connect coffee machines. Which means that you have your hands free to do other things.

A young woman folding her laundry on a Home Connect washing machine.

Pristine results: Washing and drying with Alexa

Your Home Connect washer can also be connected to Alexa. Start special wash programs using a voice command or ask Alexa for the current status, e.g. “Alexa, ask My Washer when the laundry will be ready.” Or you can interrupt the wash cycle using a voice command in order to add more laundry.

Your dryer can also easily be controlled via Amazon Alexa. For example, say "Alexa, tell My Dryer to assist me” and you will be asked which program you would like to use.

Dust-free: Intelligent cleanliness with Roxxter and Alexa

Just have your apartment dust- and lint-free with a voice command? No problem with the new Roxxter and Alexa. Simply start your new intelligent vacuum cleaner with the words: "Alexa, tell Roxxter to clean your home" and the Roxxter will start vacuuming the rooms of your home thanks to its virtual map. But what if the children's Lego bricks are still distributed on the children's room floor? No problem either - the Roxxter is simply guided past certain areas by so-called no-go zones.
Connect the Roxxter to other smart devices in your home via IFTTT. You can view the Roxxter's cleaning status via your Philips Hue lamp, synchronize your cleaning schedule in the Google calendar, start the Roxxter automatically as soon as you leave your home and much more.

Alexa Support

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What is Amazon Alexa?

Amazon Alexa is a voice service from Amazon with which you can not only call up information, but also control numerous appliances (such as Home Connect appliances) using your voice. Amazon Alexa is based on skills which make voice interaction with products and services more intuitive. The Amazon Echo and the smaller Echo Dot loudspeakers are available for controlling Amazon Alexa. The main difference between the two devices is the loudspeaker, with the larger Amazon Echo having a better sound quality.

Alexa Support

Amazon Alexa Downloads & Skills

In addition to Echo, Amazon provides a free app – a ''companion". Additional settings can be made using this companion. This is also where you will find the Skill Store for all Alexa Skills.