Amazon Echo Dot 5th gen: NEW Display + Speakers! 

Thumbs up if anyone in your house is ready to smack that Echo Dot. 🖐 Here's an affiliate link to the Echo Dot 5th gen if you're interested: amzn.to/3yY0u0X

I just wanted a clock and I ran into this product. It's more than perfect with all the added features. Winning!

Such a pretty and competent Echo product it is! I think I am going to try it.

Yes, I saw different comparisons of these 2.. but this guy... man.. u did gr8!! job! Thx!

The new display is pretty cool in this 5th gen smart speaker - love the portable size as well.

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed 5 vs 4 premium

The review that I wanted exactly i.e. echo vs echo Dot 4th gen 😀. Thanks

Thanks for using techno music, it makes it easier to know the difference. I was going to get the 5th but now i’m more thinking to go with the 4th.

Excellent review. Just what I needed.

Whole reason I got a 4th gen was because of the zigbee hub. Got a fantastic deal on smart lights that whose service was discontinued by the manufacturer and this was a way to make them work.

Great video! Watched this after impulse buying one. Glad to hear it pairs with eero.

This was so fun and interesting to watch.. I’m a fan now hehe. Thank you!!

Really like the video you explained, very detailed.

Nice new features 👍🏼

I just bought the 5th gen for my dorm room, and I got to say, this is lovely smart speaker (consider it is the first one I've ever bought 😂)

The 5th had great sound even at loud volumes, and its a nifty little device - when on sale it's a no brainer to get it.

I love the sound vs my old dot. Definite upgrade. However, the EERO extender was my reason for buying. It's awesome for that reason alone.

What a terrific video! Thanks

I'm going to buy this for sure

nice review, really liked it!

Thanks for this!!!!

3.5mm jack omission is a bad bad idea. So many of us use it as voice-enabled access to our existing sound system. So for me at least its a no go.

This seems to be intriguing. The Amazon Echo line of products, especially those with mediatek CPUs, have always been very cool.

i like the mounting options of the 3rd gen . to me anyway my 3rd gen is almost as good as my 4th gen . my gen 3 picks up my voice better for sure . I have a 4th gen in the living room and sometimes my 3rd gen all the way in my bedroom picks me up instead . also I like the 3.5 mm jack . probably gonna pass on gen 5 . at home we have a second gen echo ,three third gen dots and one 4th gen dot lights switches even put a relay in side my ceiling fan to voice control fan speeds .I love the voice control but I'm gonna keep at least a few with the 3.5mm jack.I use the music feature on it too much . I even set up a 3rd gen inside our maintenance workshop at work and the guys love it. I use it for music and quick mathematics it makes conversion quick and easy like "what is 5/8 in a percentage" or "what is 3 inches in mm" . it helps to have a practical use besides music for the bosses to keep happy

Thank you this helped me because i listen to music on the echo dot 3rd gen and it’s too loud… for bedtime plus not as clear and there are times the music stops

You’ve sold me on the word feature, I’d thought it was click only

Thanks Reed.

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Well, the 5th Gen device is definitely an upgrade in terms of audio quality. Also, Amazon is designing the processors quite well for these devices.

I kinda wish the big echo had the display too

Nice presentation sir.

This is exactly the review I was waiting for before deciding whether or not to buy the Echo Dot 5. Thanks a lot!

like the features, setup was difficult for some of my devices (August Door lock, ru-vid.comUgkxhB5YOMNj04GuoAosExygP4cH-dKeb4aB Bose speaker)... but all switches and outlets (5), thermostat, tankless water heater. Unfortunately all I can do is turn on/off Bose. It doesn't support volume or changing channels, but I believe that is due to the particular speaker I have.... Worth getting if you already have other devices to use it with... I don't sit around and ask Alexa questions much so that doesn't really matter to me....

thanks for all the holiday pricing hacks my man

You know I'm thinking that it would be really cool if you did video reviews on products that are more affordable, on the economic side of things for instance wyse products. There's a lot of new wyse stuff that I didn't even know about that would be cool informative videos I think. Just a suggestion. Thanks for the content! 😀

Here I am loving the crap out of my 5th gen then find this vid.. dang. May move my 5th gen to the living room and get a 4th gen bigger speaker for my home office setup 😅

Im pretty happy with my 3. gen, but the person detection sounds pretty cool so maybe I’m going to upgrade on the next Prime day. How well does it work for you? Or do you recommend a motion detector ?

LOL love the last bit

Great that Amazon continues to push the hardware technology, but the Alexa App could use some love too. I've been suggesting, every chance I get to have the app display the room temperature on the cards (room), that contain an echo device or sensor that tracks the temperature. Still nothing yet!

I'm still using 3rd Gen. Works for me!

Thanks video

I have the 3 I’m going upgrade ❤

Echo dot 4 is getting the same eero upgrade in the coming months, via a software update. So if you’re buying the 5 for that alone and u have a dot 4… you don’t have to

I decided to research some of those voice recognition devices and concluded that despite the hype the most useful thing thing they can do is switch on and off the lights, TV and oven! All things I can do without difficulty with my thumb and index finger... 😁

We tried the last Gen dot with clock in our bedroom but the volume was wonky, at the lowest setting it was still very loud when we used any sleep sounds. We swapped it out for a 5in show and that was great, but the shows screen brightness won't adjust low enough, the volume is perfect though. I picked up a Show 15 and then moved a Show 8 into the bedroom and it sounds great but the bigger screen is brighter still even at 7-8% brightness level... I do enjoy all the functionality of my Amazon assistants especially when they drop in price during Prime Days!

You are right, the echo 4th gen sound is still so much better but the price is also little higher. echo 5th and echo 4 th gen are both have built in temperature sensor and that’s important for my need. The new echo 5th is the price for me because i need more than one, and I would be placed them in the smaller room. Can echo dot 5th and echo 4th gen sound sound march together? Thank for your posting.

I'd be interested to see a review on how it works as a wifi extender.

If I were Paul, I would say, "Bezos balls". Good review Reed. Thanks for saving me money.

Here's a question can you turn the display off at certain times, like at bedtime?

Can you do a video on home automation? I mean from start to finish. I have zero knowledge on what you need and how to set it up step by step

Nice Video! What kind of Speakerstands do you have for the Yamaha HS Studio speakers at your Desk? I'm just renovating my Gaming Room and have the HS7 Speakers. Just looking for a wall or desk mount for these.

Great video. But what if the echo 4th becomes a Matter Bridge exposing its zigbee devices to other matter systems?

I have the echo 4th that I use for music and be my main smart speaker and it’s great. Got it for $60. Probably will skip the 5th then

Nice comparison but what's the name of the speaker that you have on your desk?

Just got the 5th gen + clock today to replace my 3rd gen. The new features on it are kinda nifty, the sound is obviously better, and I even got 2 free lightbulbs with it for the Black Friday price, not bad. I'm kinda fascinated by the display on it, can't wait to see a teardown somewhere. I do agree it's a little hard to read the display from afar, so I'm not totally sure if I'm going to replace my big red LED clock with it or just use this near my desk. I'll have to see if playing with the brightness helps at all. I'm not a constant music player on it, if I was I'd say getting some halfway decent external speakers and plugging them into my 3rd gen would be the way to go, but that also would take a lot more room.

Hey guys, I need your help. Is there a way to enable/disable multiple routines simultaneously in the Alexa App? It drives me nuts to disable them one at a time.

The 4th gen shows the alarm time too for a few seconds when its set.

I like the larger echo fourth GEN and fifth GEN. I just don’t understand why they don’t have the clock like they do on the dot.??!!

so if you use the third gen with your own speakers, than it is the best option of all three

Unrelated to this video, we have a lamp in our foyer that turns on with a kasa smart outlet on a schedule for the evening and early morning, but I would also like it to kick on automatically if the light level in the foyer drops during the day (very overcast day or something like that). Any ideas?

Could I pair a 4th and 5th gen together as a stereo pair !?

So how does this help those of us who don't have any of these smart devices?

Hi Reed, Thanks for the amazing and informative video on Dot 5. I was wondering is it possible to have an automation where if a smart plug goes off (mostly due to no electricity supply) then an audio message can be sent through Amazon Alexa which would be working on backup? Would you be kind enough to help me with this?

There is a version without the clock. Make sure you get the one with a clock.

The light at the bottom of the 5th gen (white) is slightly brighter than the 4th gen(black).

I'm looking to ceiling mount these. Can the display be inverted?

Hit and say yeah that should pause defined 😂😂😂

Nice T-shirt :)

how are the mikes ? my eco 3 went from hearing me from another room to having to yell sometimes from 2 meters away, a lot are complaining about this which is likely to be an intentional downgrade.

We've been using Alexa since the very first Echo was released (the old tall black can). That Echo still lives in our kitchen and we have an Echo Dot in every room. I'm wondering whether you've had trouble getting the correct Echo to respond. We have two in adjacent bedrooms, and I find that when I ask the one in my bedroom to turn on the lights, Alexa next door will give me a lot of back talk about how she just doesn't know what that means and where I can go to fix it. Another "feature" I wish I could turn off is what I call the "by the way" mode. Often when I give a simple request or command, I get a longwinded "by the way, you can. . ." I find myself saying "Alexa, shut up" a lot. Yesterday, I was standing between the bedrooms yelling for Alexa to shut up while she was giving me a lot of unwanted instructions. One of them responded, "I'm sorry, I don't know how to do that on this device." LOL! "I'm talking and I can't shut up!"

What's that Blue Led Light Cube in the background on your workstation area? I want to get me that too!

Thumbs up & new Subscriber. Gave the Dot a good smack. Thanks for the video.

I have 4th gen Dot and it is great. I think feature addons in 5th gen are incredible. Temperature se sor, slightly better sound and better display are gamechangers actually. But, man sound quality of Homepod Mini is sensational. Incomparable.

0:24 "Hit me baby one more time" 💀

Alexa become CodeJohan’s Siri at the end 😂

Can you explain what eerie router is?

Long time Google home and Smart things user here, thinking of switching to home assistant soon. Is there any way to get the presence or temperature sensor data into home assistant to trigger routines? I want a reliable presence detection but with the lack of availability on the aqara fp1 this seems like a cheaper option.

Can’t decide if I want white or the new cloud blue. I have a white background be already (4th generation) might try new color.

Smacking all the way! 😆

I have a question for a smart home solver, the echo dot 5th gen is 27 bucks in amazon is it worth it?

Does the clock time show up on the front of the sphere on the black one like it does on the white one?

Hey Reed! Do you think we can push written messages to the led display from home assistant or similar?

Wait, is that a Flo by Moen Smart Faucet? Have you ever talked about that one?

Is the clock display dimmable or can it be turned off for when one goes to sleep.

I wonder why the Echo does not have that nifty display? All in all, I think I will buy the Dot. Thanks for a good review.

The improvements are noticeable, but is it worth $25 more? I'd wait a year for the price to drop $25-$50, and stick with the 4th gen. Even with the "sound improvement", it doesn't even compare to the Echo counterparts.

Can it be set up to stop the alarm by tapping the the top, or does it just snooze it? I want to be able to cancel the alarm without speaking.

I bought the larger version 4 dot and hate the Alexa interface . The sound is great, but my wife cannot control the lights anymore...

Does it have premium sound?

Could this be used with the iPhone?

Does it connect to phone by Bluetooth if wifi is not available?

I just bought the 5th Gen Alexa . I live in the Uk , but I do not have the pause gesture .

should i buy the 5th gen as my first?

I just purchased my Alexa today and it’s not responding, what do I do ?

Please tell me that you are already working on a video about the new routines of Google home

I got the gen4 should I wait for something else get the g5 am a new subscriber thank u

What it is that blue cube on the table? pls look good

It's a shame that it's not possible to incorporate the visual countdown timer of the Echo Dot, into a routine.

For some reason, I keep getting an error on my eero app when trying to use the built-in eero function

What about the echo location trigger!!!