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, Alexa can turn off the lights or stop music playback.

Echo device speakers and microphones detect movement nearby with ultrasound motion detection. Echo Show devices 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.

Note: When your device detects presence, it signals the cloud so that the feature you've enabled can function properly. All processing of camera views to detect presence happens on the Echo Show device. It sends no video or images to the cloud. Learn more about privacy at Alexa Privacy Hub (https://www.amazon.co.uk/alexaprivacy).

All compatible Echo devices trigger Occupancy Routines when you say your wake word. The following Echo devices support Occupancy Routines and other technologies that trigger the routine.

Echo Show 15, Echo Show 10 (3rd Gen. or newer), Echo Show 8 (2nd Gen. or newer), Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen. or newer)
Echo (4th Gen. or newer), Echo Dot (4th Gen. or newer)