The small thermometers you can buy and hang anywhere are pretty cheap, but you don’t need to get any if you have an Amazon Echo. That is, if you have one of two types of Echoes: a fourth generation echo oa Second generation Echo Plus. Both have temperature sensors built into smart speakers; just look at your phrasing to make sure you get the result in your room, rather than outside.
The safest way to test this is to ask Alexa to tell you the temperature at the end. Assuming everything is set up correctly on your device, you’ll get the temperature of your current location, just as you normally would. Remember this number, and instead ask Alexa to tell you the indoor temperature. Specifically: “Alexa, what temperature is inside.” Using the word “inside” instead of “inside” doesn’t work. Don’t ask me why.
(I also discovered that if you designate a room for your Echo device, using the Devices in the app, you should also be able to ask Alexa “What is the temperature [name of room]? ”)
The number you are told it should is the current temperature of the room where the Echo is located. And you can check that number using the button Alexa application> Devices> Echo and Alexa> “Echo device name”. Scroll down until you see the “Temperature sensor” field:
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Touch it and you can even start creating automatic routines based on temperature.
Viously, obviously turning on a fan when it’s too hot is a perfect routine to set up, but it only limits your imagination (and the number of Alexa-compatible devices you have). Me? I would just like my echo to call the temperature once an hour. I wonder if I can build a routine for this.