I bought 3 Amazon Show and Echo products during the recent pre-Christmas sale.  Thanks to the generous return policy of Amazon I have a month to check them out.  I'm investigating how useful they will be for our new home in Chiang Mai.  I will connect them on a separate VLAN that will use a VPN to USA so they will hopefully function as if they're in America.  I will be using something like Tomato, DD-WRT or even a home built router to make these pieces function.

 

One of the features I hope will work well is to use them as an intercom system inside our home and to a couple of external office locations within CM.

 

I currently have Plex up and running so I can stream music and video from my iMac to these devices.  Hopefully I will soon incorporate a Raspberry Pi Plex server, a Pi-hole ad blocker and a NAS into my network.

 

I was wondering if anyone on TV has experience with Alexa in Thailand.  Being a retired software engineer I'm also interested if anyone has tried developing any Alexa skills.

I doubt that you will need a vpn with a US ip in order to use Echo in Thailand.  I don't have an Echo here, but I do use the Alexa app to connect to a unit back in the States without any problem.  Sound quality is excellent, better than POTS.  They must be 110 volts though.

The Echo AC adapters accepts 120-240V.  So I’m OK on that.  I guess I would only care about Amazon music but even for that I can use a substitute from my own library.