Ecobee3 First Thermostat to be Controllable by Amazon Echo

Ecobee3 connected thermostats are the latest devices to be controllable by the Amazon Echo, said ecobee Friday. Echo’s Alexa will be able to facilitate requests from across a room through commands for setting temperature to a particular level or raising or lowering temperature, said ecobee. The ecobee3 is the first thermostat directly compatible with Echo, it said.