How Do Alexa Occupancy Routines Work?
Set Alexa to start a Routine when your device detects people nearby.
Occupancy Routines work when an Echo device detects that someone is nearby. For example, when you enter a room, an Occupancy Routine can turn on flash briefing, music, smart home lights, and more to save you time.
You can also set a Routine to start when nobody is present. If the device gets no signals for about 30 minutes with ultrasound motion detection or about 7 minutes with Computer Vision, Alexa can turn off the lights or stop music playback.
Alexa can detect when people are near using signals from your device. These methods can include ultrasound motion detection, computer vision, screen touch, voice interaction, and other signals.
Certain Echo devices can detect movement nearby with ultrasound motion detection. Echo Show devices with cameras may also use computer vision from the device camera to detect people in the area. Turn on home monitoring on your Echo Show for computer vision detection. The following devices can use computer vision or ultrasonic motion detection:
| Computer Vision | Ultrasound Motion Detection |
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