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Originally Posted by wodin
I renamed all of my Echos (except tho one that's currently offline) to room names, set them all to drop-in "Only my household" and went home and told the Living room Echo to call the bedroom; and she did! Both Echos started to softly chime and showed a flashing green ring. When Wifey said "Alexa Answer" they stopped chiming, the green ring went solid and we could talk to each other. Since the two echos are within audible range from each other I could tell there was a slight (500 mili-seconds or so) delay, but that's about the same as cell phones or the Nucleus intercom system.
Getting her to stop intercoming (is that a word?) was a bit of a chore as she didn't seem to listen to the wake word, and I had to push the button. And I haven't experimented with connecting to my Alexa app on my cell phone. I don't see a way to initiate a call from the app.
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I'm assuming you signed up for Calling and Messaging. That seems to be a prerequisite.
I have no idea how all this stuff will work, but it wouldn't make any sense to me for the Intercom feature to work with phones. The Intercom should only be for devices within the home, though Amazon did allow friends and family and friends of friends and family to drop in on you unannounced. Very creepy. Now Calling and Messaging does make sense to work with phones. However, it is not yet clear what Amazon actually allows. We should start to find out as Shows arrive and more people try to set up Intercom capability.