Here's what I can think of right now: turn on my coffee machine; which I setup to brew the previous night listen to the news listen to podcasts listen to au

Here's what I can think of right now: turn on my coffee machine; which I setup to brew the previous night listen to the news listen to podcasts listen to audio books or it can read kindle books listen to local radio stations add items to shopping list listen to music Control my TV Control the lights around the house Make phone calls and use it as speaker phone get notifications on amazon orders delivered get information about local businesses look up wikipedia info get word definitions tell me the weather look up recipes Get traffic info Turn a fan on and off It's primary function is to listening to stuff. I can use my phone for all of this but using the echo is much more convenient. I don't use any of the echo skills simply because I haven't taken the time to figure out what's available. I suspect there's useful stuff there.