Score the Amazon Echo Hub for 31% off ahead of October Prime Day

Have you ever seen a movie where someone enters a posh home and immediately uses a big control panel to secure their house, turn on their lights, get news updates, and so on? That’s essentially what a smart home hub does, and you can get one now at a great price if you want.

The Amazon Echo Hub is a central control panel that connects all the smart home devices in your house, and right now it’s on sale for just $125 on Amazon. That’s a 31% discount off its $180 MSRP.

This smart home control panel features an 8-inch touch display that grants easy access to your smart home devices, their settings, and their behaviors. Whether you place it by the door or put it in your bedroom, it doesn’t matter because it just works.

The Echo Hub’s dashboard is customizable, so you can add in your favorite widgets, check in on your smart doorbell camera feed, quickly turn off the smart lights in your living room, send your smart robot vacuum on a cleaning job, or arm your security system.

Some lesser-but-still-cool things you can do include using the Echo Hub to control music playback across your home, seeing local weather and news at a glance, and asking questions to Alexa for quick answers.

The Echo Hub works with any Alexa-compatible device, from smart locks to smart thermostats to smart speakers.

It’s a bit of a hard ask at its usual $180 price, but the Echo Hub is a solid buy when it’s on sale for $125 so grab it while you can. This is a nice foretaste of this year’s Prime Big Deal Days sales event (or October Prime Day, as we call it). Don’t pass it up!