When you’re not home, Astro can move around your home on its own (as long as you have a Ring Protect Pro subscription), check on specific areas, show you a live view of rooms, or send alerts if it detects someone who shouldn’t be there. Essentially, it’s like having a more advanced Echo Show that can move around your home.

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When you’re actually home, it’ll provide you all of the Alexa features you’re accustomed to. It can control your smart home, entertain you, and all that sort of stuff. It can even snap a photo of you and your loved ones on command, making it so everyone can be in the shot.

Astro can do a lot of the data processing on the device, which is good for anyone worried about privacy. There are clear indicators when anything is streaming, so you’ll always know what’s happening with your Astro device.

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