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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-11

Amazon Echo Show 11 (2025)

Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · Amazon · Hubs & Controllers · ~$219.99 (Amazon's stated price at time of research (2026-07-19) — never treated as a live price. Recorded for the standalone device (ASIN B0DC91H3JK); the higher-ranking '(2025 release)' listings are adjustable-stand bundles, not the base device.)

Exactly which product this is[1]

Model number
B0DC91H3JK
Generation
2025 release
Region this page covers
US
Also sold or listed as
Echo Show 11 (2025 release)

“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.

Compatibility

EcosystemSupportThe catch
Amazon AlexaWorksWorks with this ecosystem[4]Native Alexa device and the hub itself. The Alexa+ tier gates the advanced conversational and proactive features — free with Prime, $19.99/mo otherwise.
Google HomeDoesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystemAmazon documents this exclusively as an Alexa device with an Alexa-only smart home hub, and no Google Home pairing path exists or is claimed. The basis is architectural — it is a competing ecosystem's controller — rather than an explicit 'we do not support Google' statement.
Apple HomeDoesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystemNo Apple Home or HomeKit path. Being a Matter CONTROLLER does not make the device a Matter ACCESSORY that another ecosystem can adopt — a distinction worth keeping straight, since the Matter badge invites the opposite assumption.
SmartThingsNot checked yetWe have not researched this yet — this is not a claim about the productNOT ESTABLISHED. Amazon makes no statement either way. The Zigbee, Thread and Matter radios serve Alexa's own hub and nothing indicates a SmartThings pairing path, but Amazon never affirmatively denies one, so this is recorded as unknown rather than inferred from silence.
Home AssistantPartialPartial support — see the catchHome Assistant cannot control the Echo Show as a device and cannot borrow it as a Matter controller — a Matter controller commissions accessories INTO Alexa, it does not expose Alexa's fabric outward. The practical path runs the other way: Home Assistant exposes its own entities to Alexa, so the display can voice-control them. Amazon publishes nothing about Home Assistant; this level is inference and is flagged as low-confidence.

? Not checked yet means we haven’t researched that ecosystem yet — it is a statement about our research, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check can research it for you.

Protocols: WIFI · ZIGBEE · THREAD · MATTER[2][14]

Needs before it works: No — this device is the hub. Amazon names the Echo Show 11 (2025 release) in its Matter, Thread border-router and Zigbee device lists, and the product's own specification table reads "Smart Home Hub Zigbee + Matter + Thread Border Router".[12]

What it can do[13][15]

You can tell it to

  • Media playback

It reports

Not established — we could not confirm this from vendor documentation

Some of these may need a paid plan — see Subscription reality below.

Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.

Subscription reality

◐ Works without a subscription: Yes, but material features need a plan.

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

Amazon's wording: 'Full access to Alexa+ on compatible devices is included for free with a Prime membership. For non-Prime customers, the Alexa+ Standard plan is $19.99/month.' Alexa+ is optional, not required — the device works as an Echo Show without it, and new Echo purchases include Early Access. Non-Prime users also get a limited free Alexa+ chat tier on the web and in the app, capped by usage; the $19.99 tier is what unlocks the full on-device experience.

Maintenance reality[5][7]

The catch

Omnisense is not the radar presence sensor it is often described as. Amazon's own wording is sensor fusion across the 13-megapixel camera, audio, ultrasound, WiFi radar, an accelerometer and WiFi CSI — so a household that objects to a camera-based presence system should know a camera is part of it. Note also that Amazon's own help pages listing which Echo devices support Matter and Thread are stale and omit the 2025 displays entirely; the launch announcement is the accurate source.

Who it's for

Alexa households wanting one screen that also carries the Zigbee, Thread and Matter radios, and who are comfortable with presence sensing that includes a camera among its inputs.

Sources & method

Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →

  1. [1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/amazon-new-echo-devices-alexa-plus — Echo Show 8 (2025 release) $179.99 and Echo Show 11 (2025 release) $219.99, 'both will be available on November 12'; AZ3 Pro chip — vendor-announcement research, verified 2026-07-19
    Backs: Product identity, Price
  2. [2] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/amazon-new-echo-devices-alexa-plus — 'Each of these new devices also includes a built-in smart home hub with support for Zigbee, Matter, and Thread.' ⚠ CORRECTED 2026-08-08: this note previously warned that Amazon's own published lists of Matter devices and Thread border routers were STALE and omitted the 2025 Echo Show 8/11, and that border-router status was therefore unconfirmed. Both lists were re-read on 2026-08-08 and BOTH now name 'Echo Show 11 (2025 release)' — Matter in the Matter-enabled device list, and Thread at version 1.3 in the border-router list. The staleness warning is withdrawn and `provides` now claims both, sourced separately below. — vendor-announcement research, verified 2026-08-08
    Backs: Protocols
  3. [3] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/amazon-new-echo-devices-alexa-plus — Omnisense 'leverages a range of sensors and signals—the 13-megapixel camera on the new Echo Show devices, audio, ultrasound, Wi-Fi radar, accelerometer, and Wi-Fi CSI'; https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GSR22RYDWS3KBUYW — 'The devices only emit ultrasound when a feature that uses motion detection is enabled' — vendor-announcement and help-page research, verified 2026-07-19
  4. [4] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DC91H3JK — 'Full access to Alexa+ on compatible devices is included for free with a Prime membership. For non-Prime customers, the Alexa+ Standard plan is $19.99/month.' Corroborated by https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/amazon-2025-devices-alexa-event-live-updates. This re-verifies the same claim already carried on the amazon-echo-hub record — checked, not corrected. — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-19
    Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility
  5. [5] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G8ZWSPSY6BNM5X25 — Local Voice Control 'allows Alexa to fulfill a limited set of requests on select Echo devices when the device is not connected to the internet, such as requests to control supported lights, plugs, and switches', for Zigbee devices on an Echo with a built-in hub, 'enabled by default'. Amazon publishes no per-model offline capability matrix for this device. ⚠ RE-CHECKED 2026-08-08 AND KEPT AS UNVERIFIABLE, deliberately rather than silently: www.amazon.com/gp/help/* refuses us (HTTP 403 to a plain fetch, HTTP 503 through a second client), and amazon.com's robots.txt does NOT disallow that path — so this is an edge refusal, not a published crawl rule, and we obey the stricter of the two. Searched for a substitute on Amazon's re-readable surfaces and found none: the Alexa smart-home developer docs on Zigbee support, Works-with-Alexa local connection options and local connection requirements carry no Local Voice Control statement, and the product's own listing does not contain the phrase at all. The sentence above is Amazon's own and was read on 2026-07-19; it is NOT re-stamped to today, because a stamp asserts a look and no look was possible. Escalated on 16 #203. — vendor-help-page research, verified 2026-07-19
    Backs: Maintenance
  6. [6] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201602230 — 'When you speak to Alexa, a recording of what you asked Alexa is sent to Amazon's cloud'. The former 'Do Not Send Voice Recordings' opt-out help pages are no longer reachable and remaining controls are retention-only. The OUTCOME is verified; no Amazon announcement of the removal or its date was found, so no removal date is asserted here. — vendor-help-page research (gap noted), verified 2026-07-19
  7. [7] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DC91H3JK — 'Built with multiple layers of privacy controls, including a built-in microphones & camera enable/disable button, and dedicated camera controls on device and in-app.' The record's statement that a PHYSICAL camera shutter is not confirmed for this release is carried by a control rather than by an absence of looking: the word 'shutter' does not appear anywhere in the listing's extracted text. — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-08
    Backs: Maintenance
  8. [8] Amazon's own newsroom announcement of the 2025 Echo devices, re-read 2026-08-11 — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-11
    Backs: Price, Market availability, Research status
  9. [9] amazon.com product page for ASIN B0DC91H3JK — access attempt, 2026-08-11 — access attempt, verified 2026-08-11
  10. [10] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DC91H3JK — migrated hand stamp, verified 2026-08-11
    Backs: Service status
  11. [11] developer.amazon.com, Alexa+ Matter support documentation, re-read 2026-08-18 — 'This connection allows Alexa to control your device locally, reducing latency and improving reliability'; 'This option enables Alexa to control your device locally during Internet outages or when your add-on isn't available.' Both sentences take the controlled accessory as their subject, not the Echo device. — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-18
  12. [12] This record's own sourced `provides` block: matter-controller, thread-border-router and zigbee-hub, each naming "Echo Show 11 (2025 release)" in Amazon's developer device lists (re-checked 2026-08-08), corroborated by the product listing's specification table: "Smart Home Hub Zigbee + Matter + Thread Border Router". — documented-provider-role inference (BQ-191 provider backfill, population (b); R-3 of the 2026-08-19 evening rulings), verified 2026-08-19
    Backs: Required hub or bridge
  13. [13] Amazon's own launch article, read 2026-08-20, describing Omnisense across "our new Echo Show devices" collectively — "the 13-megapixel camera on our new Echo Show devices, audio, ultrasound, Wi-Fi radar, accelerometer, and Wi-Fi CSI" — and stating that "Each of these new devices also includes a built-in smart home hub with support for Zigbee, Matter, and Thread". No per-model sensor breakdown is given, and `www.amazon.com` is a registered refusing host. — vendor + ecosystem-documentation research (BQ-187 capabilities population, the `hubs` shelf), verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Capabilities
  14. [14] This record's own sourced `provides` block, establishing the device as a Matter controller. Re-read 2026-08-20 against the ruled definition of `protocols`; no new external source was fetched. — protocols-definition sweep (BQ-222 batch 2; ruling §1 of docs/decisions/2026-08-20-RULINGS-SITTING.md), verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Protocols
  15. [15] home-assistant.io/integrations/alexa_devices (counterparty platform documentation), read 2026-08-20. Its supported-device list names "Amazon Echo Dot" and "Amazon Echo Show" among others, and it enumerates the entities it creates: "Media Player - Play audio/video from several sources", "Button - Execute Alexa routines, restart the device", "Notify - Speak and Announce notifications", "Select - Select Drop In status", "Switch - Do not disturb". The Echo Show line is named in the supported list as "Amazon Echo Show". — vendor + ecosystem-documentation research (BQ-187 capabilities population, batch 12), verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Capabilities
  16. [16] Amazon developer documentation, Thread support — verbatim: "The following Amazon Echo and eero devices have Thread Border Routers built-in." The list names "Echo Show 11 (2025 release)" under "Thread version 1.3". — vendor-page research (BQ-319 provides sweep — first-party re-read through tools/lib/gated-fetch.mjs), verified 2026-09-02
    Backs: What it provides to your home
  17. [17] Amazon developer documentation, Zigbee support — verbatim: "The following Amazon Echo and eero devices have built-in smart home hubs that connect and control Zigbee smart devices." The "Zigbee hub list" names "Echo Show 11 (2025 release)". — vendor-page research (BQ-319 provides sweep — first-party re-read through tools/lib/gated-fetch.mjs), verified 2026-09-02
    Backs: What it provides to your home
  18. [18] Amazon developer documentation, Matter support — verbatim: "The following Amazon Echo and eero devices support Matter." The "Matter-enabled device list" names "Echo Show 11 (2025 release)". — vendor-page research (BQ-319 provides sweep — first-party re-read through tools/lib/gated-fetch.mjs), verified 2026-09-02
    Backs: What it provides to your home

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