Brilliant Home Control now supports Alexa announcements and garage doors
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Now you can now broadcast messages and close the garage door. What you need to know Brilliant has released an update that adds Alexa announcement capabilities to its in-wall control. Feature allows for broadcasting messages to other Brilliant Home Controls and Alexa devices. Update follows another recent addition that brought support for Genie garage door openers. Brilliant has introduced a new update for its in-wall Home Controls that adds support for Alexa announcements. The latest feature enables owners to broadcast messages on demand to other Brilliant Home Controls or Alexa devices within the home. Alexa announcements now work with Brilliant. This means that you can say `Alexa, announce...` and this announcement will be broadcasted across your Brilliant Control(s) and any other Alexa-connected device(s) in your home. To enable the feature, users must be running version 20.05.27 of the Home Control operating system, and must be signed into an Alexa account. The update ...