I can't tell you if it works or doesn't, as I can't get it set up! I'm pretty tech savvy, and have 8 Echo devices and numerous devices connected to my EchoSphere. So, I thought, this will be easy. No, it isn't! First you have to subscribe to Alexa Together. The person you are trying to monitor must also have an Amazon account, so if they don't you have to make one for them. With the attendant One Time Passwords being sent to the other person's phone and email accounts. Older folks might find this confusing, or not have a phone which is smart... So, prepare to be there with them to sort that out. Then, once you have established their account you need to go back to Amazon to activate the Alexa Together subscription. Then the fun begins... You have to download the Vayyar app, easy. Then you following the instruction for mounting the unit on the wall, carefully measuring the room size, and the midpoint location of one of the walls. In my case the room was 12' x 12' so it was okay, as the unit will monitor a 13'x13' room. Then you peel off the backing tape of the "worlds crappiest" Velcro, and watch out, as it will peel off the Velcro backing before it peels off the two sided tape. Really... For the cost of this, put decent two sided tape on it! Then you mount it to the wall, and pray that you have an outlet that is within 4'4" of the device (counting the height!!), so it better be right above an outlet, or you'll be hunting for an extension cord (which is in the boxes of Christmas decorations if you're wondering!). So, you have it mounted, now follow the onscreen instructions to connect the blue tooth to your phone, and the wifi to the device. Now, I have an Eero Mesh Network set up in my house (SO easy to set up and works great by the way), so you'd think it would be easy to connect... Nope, it took the device several attempts for it to find my network (even though I had full reception on my phone only two feet away!). Eventually it connect to the network, and my phone. Then it tells you to connect the device to your Alexa device... And that is where it got stuck. No matter how I tried (opening up Alexa, searching for devices) it wouldn't show up in my devices, or when I tried to "Add a device". This thing was totally undetectable! So, I'm going to try to call their customer service and see if I can get help. But I wanted the Amazon customers to know... Hold off on buying one of these P.O.S., because even the set up is NOT customer friendly or intuitive. Oh, and yes, I tried YouTube to see if anyone else had gone through this and solved it... Nope! Only their crappy video which only covers Android devices! Don't they know how prevalent iPhones are here in the US??? So, IF I get this solved I'll update and let you know. But from my perspective, this thing is NOT ready for prime time! Oh, and the device feels flimsy and super cheap, along with the dumb Velcro and double sided tape.
