Echo Plus delivers Alexa and a built-in smart home hub for $81 (Cert. Refurb, Orig. $130)

$81

Amazon offers its certified refurbished Echo Plus with built-in ZigBee hub for $80.99 shipped. Originally $130, today’s offer is the lowest that we’ve tracked in any condition all-time. Ships with one-year warranty. Echo Plus offers access to the full range of Alexa skills and packs a built-in smart home hub, so you can use it with popular ZigBee accessories. This version was just recently replaced at Amazon’s keynote event last week. The second generation model sports a fabric design and improved audio. If you’re just after the built-in hub, it’s hard to go wrong with this refurbished option today. Rated 4.4/5 stars.

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Echo Plus features:

• Echo Plus is a simple way to start your smart home. It has a built-in ZigBee smart home hub, which allows for simple and direct setup of compatible ZigBee lights, locks, sensors, plugs, and in-wall switches from brands like Philips Hue, GE, and Yale. No additional hub required.
• Echo Plus connects to Alexa—a cloud-based voice service—to play music, make calls, set timers and music alarms, ask questions, check traffic and weather, and more—instantly.
• Just ask for a song, artist, or genre from Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, and more. With multi-room music, you can play music on your Echo devices in different rooms. Echo Plus can also play Audible audiobooks, radio stations, news briefs, and more.