The Hue Alexa Skill is one example of a smart home Alexa Skill. Users can use smart home Skills to lock their doors, change the volume on their stereo system or to switch off the lights.

Amazon's new "Skills Connections" let one skill borrow the functionality of another, including Uber and OpenTable. Yep, your skills have skills now.

These skills allow you to turn on your smart devices through the Alexa app or your Echo speaker by voice. To enable these skills, open the Alexa app menu and tap Skills & Games.

Alexa skills are programs that are similar to apps for your mobile devices. Skills range from specialized weather information, fun games to smart home applications and more.

But for Alexa users, I recently found a helpful skill that has helped me better understand Alexa’s behaviour and made me feel less confused about its behaviour overall.

A few years ago, the coordinated smart home felt like a pipe dream, but Alexa changed all that.

A homeowner simply enables the Control4 Smart Home Skill inside the Alexa app, connects with Control4, discovers devices and scenes, and their home is ready for voice control.

You'll link your compatible smart home devices with the Alexa app to get started. Then, you can create smart home automation routines in a few minutes.

Now you ask Alexa to show the last recorded video from smart home security cameras on Echo Show, Echo Spot, Fire TV, and Fire Tablets. Amazon Alexa's Skill development group just added the Cameras ...

Amazon's Alexa line of products will soon get new home automation skills thanks to the release of an API by the company.

Amazon's Alexa assistant has 13,000 apps, but the retailers wants more. To that end, it's partnering with Coding Dojo on pop-up sessions.