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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 ecosystem[21]This is an Alexa hub, not a device other systems add, so Google Home has no way to use it. A Matter device paired to it can still be shared with Google Home on its own.
Apple HomeDoesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem[21]This is an Alexa hub, not a device other systems add. Its Matter badge means it can control Matter devices for Alexa; it doesn't make the Echo Show something Apple Home can add.
SmartThingsDoesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem[22]This is an Alexa hub, not a device other systems add, so SmartThings has no way to bring it in. Amazon's own documentation makes the Echo the controller that discovers Matter devices and connects them to Alexa — the traffic runs inward, not outward. A Matter device paired to the Echo can still be shared with SmartThings on its own.
Home AssistantPartialPartial support — see the catch[23]Home Assistant lists Echo Show among the devices its Alexa Devices integration supports, so you can control the screen itself — play media, trigger Alexa routines, restart it, and read its temperature and light sensors. Signing in needs an Amazon account with app-based two-step verification. What you cannot reach is the smart home behind it: the Echo brings Matter accessories into Alexa and does not pass them back out, so Home Assistant sees the display, not the devices Alexa controls.

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

Whether each platform's automations and routines can use it — not just whether its app shows it.

What it doesAlexaHome Assistant
Media playback? not stated✓ routines can use it

Platform documentation: Amazon Alexa — automation engine ceiling (eight terms observed; residue inconclusive by refusal) (2026-09-01), Home Assistant — automation engine ceiling (2026-08-29)

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

Subscription reality[24]

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

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

Optional Alexa+ (free with Prime, else $19.99/mo); the device works as an Echo Show without it.

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 →

26 numbered sources· read them in the source's own words
  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 — Read on the maker's own site, 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 this record now credits the device with both, sourced separately below. — Read on the maker's own site, 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' — Read on the maker's own site, 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. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-19
    Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility
    Checked 2026-07-19. This page no longer lets us re-check it automatically, so that date is where this fact stands.
  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 table for this device. ⚠ RE-CHECKED 2026-08-08 AND KEPT AS UNVERIFIABLE, deliberately rather than silently: Amazon's help pages turn us away — a plain read is refused outright, and a second reader is refused too — while amazon.com's published rules for automated readers do NOT close that path, so this is a refusal at the door rather than a published 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 for a ruling. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-19
    Backs: Maintenance
    Checked 2026-08-08. This page no longer lets us re-check it automatically, so that date is where this fact stands.
  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. — Read on the maker's own site, 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. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-08
    Backs: Maintenance
    Checked 2026-08-08. This page no longer lets us re-check it automatically, so that date is where this fact stands.
  8. [8] Amazon's own newsroom announcement of the 2025 Echo devices, re-read 2026-08-11 — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-11
    Backs: Price, Market availability, Research status
  9. [9] amazon.com product page for ASIN B0DC91H3JK — access attempt, 2026-08-11, verified 2026-08-11
  10. [10] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DC91H3JK, verified 2026-08-11
    Backs: Service status
    Checked 2026-08-11. This page no longer lets us re-check it automatically, so that date is where this fact stands.
  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. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-18
  12. [12] What this record already establishes the device provides: a Matter controller, a Thread border router and a 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"., 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, where the per-model listings live, is on our standing list of places that turn us away. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Capabilities
  14. [14] What this record already establishes the device provides, including its role as a Matter controller. Re-read 2026-08-20 against the settled meaning of the protocols a device itself speaks; no new outside source was read., verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Protocols
  15. [15] home-assistant.io/integrations/alexa_devices (Home Assistant's own documentation, written by the other side of this pairing), 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". — Read on the maker's own site, 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". — Read on the maker's own site, 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)". — Read on the maker's own site, 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)". — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-02
    Backs: What it provides to your home
  19. [19] Attempted 2026-09-09. Both amazon.com addresses on this record were turned away because that site's own policy tells us to stay out. As on the Echo Hub and the Amazon Smart Plug records, what blocks us is how we conduct ourselves rather than the quality of the source — Amazon's own listing does count as a first-party source for an Amazon device. All three fields stay unknown, recorded as the outcome of being turned away., verified 2026-09-09
  20. [20] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-10 (no new external read), verified 2026-09-10
  21. [21] Amazon developer documentation, Alexa+ smart home Matter support (page 'Last updated: May 01, 2026'), read 2026-09-10 and it opened. Verbatim: 'The following Amazon Echo and eero devices support Matter.' The 'Matter-enabled device list' under it names 'Echo Show 11 (2025 release)'. And: 'Matter-supported Amazon Echo devices can connect and control Matter smart home devices seamlessly. After a customer sets up a compatible Echo, they can add a Matter device using the Alexa app. The Echo device is the Matter administrator used to discover and connect Matter devices'. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-10
    Backs: Apple Home compatibility, Google Home compatibility
  22. [22] Amazon developer documentation, Alexa+ smart home Matter support, read 2026-09-11 as a browser would see it. Verbatim: 'Matter-supported Amazon Echo devices can connect and control Matter smart home devices seamlessly. After a customer sets up a compatible Echo, they can add a Matter device using the Alexa app. The Echo device is the Matter administrator used to discover and connect Matter devices to Alexa locally.' The page describes the Echo only as the administrator bringing devices INTO Alexa; nothing on it describes an Echo being commissioned into another ecosystem, and SmartThings is named nowhere on it. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-11
    Backs: SmartThings compatibility
  23. [23] Home Assistant's own documentation for the Alexa Devices integration, read 2026-09-11 as a browser would see it. Verbatim: 'The Alexa Devices integration lets you control Alexa-enabled devices connected to your Amazon account. The integration provides information on connected devices and enables control of the main features.' Its 'Supported devices' list names 'Amazon Echo Show' among the supported device families. The supported-functionality list gives Button (execute Alexa routines, restart the device), Media Player, and Temperature / Illuminance / connectivity sensors; the page warns that the integration 'requires multi-factor authentication using an authentication app'. — Read what the other company publishes, verified 2026-09-11
    Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
  24. [24] aboutamazon.com, Amazon's Alexa+ article ("Alexa+ is your next-generation assistant") — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-16
    Backs: Subscription
  25. [25] internal ruling, applied to evidence this record now holds, verified 2026-09-16
  26. [26] this record's own lifecycle note as it stood before 2026-09-16 (no new external read): its wording was rewritten so it reads in plain language. No fact, date, source or value changed, and the earlier wording is kept on this record., verified 2026-09-16

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