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The only reason to buy this type of Echo is to replace the Philips Hub, but it can't do that. It just doesn't have the same functionality. At most, it can turn lights on and off, and change their brightness. If you want to adjust color, you sort of can, but only verbally. Not only does this mean you can't program it to change colors, it also means you can't get the exact color you want, just general ones like "red" and "blue". When it comes to the Echo Plus and the Philips Hue hub, it's entirely either/or. You have to unregister devices from the hub and register them with the Echo. For me, the discovery scan didn't work at all, so I had to manually enter the serial numbers from each bulb. Of course, you can't register the Echo Plus as a Hue hub so that the Philips software works with it. That would be too convenient. I'm hoping that, a year from now, the Echo software will catch up and I'll switch my bulbs over to it. For now, I have to switch all of them back to the Philips hub, which means I don't get full integration with Alexa. Amazon overpromised and underdelivered. It would be smarter not to buy this until things change, if they do.