Amazon has unveiled Alexa Home Map, a new smart home interface that lets you see and control connected devices through an interactive 3D model of your house, rather than scrolling through endless lists of lights, plugs and speakers.
Announced alongside Amazon’s latest Echo devices, the feature creates a digital layout of your home, with smart devices appearing in their actual locations. Instead of remembering whether you named a lamp ‘Living Room Light’ or ‘Corner Lamp’, you can simply find it on the map and control it from there.
The interface goes beyond a basic floor plan, too. According to Amazon, smart lights will appear in their current colour and brightness, so a room illuminated in blue will look blue on the map. Speakers playing music will display animated notes, while users can zoom into individual rooms, switch between floors and filter devices by category.
Perhaps the most interesting addition is how Alexa Home Map handles outdoor security cameras. The interface can show animated representations of people and vehicles moving around your property, giving you a visual overview of activity outside without displaying photorealistic images. Amazon says the map can also reflect local weather conditions, including rain and snow.
Setting everything up will require a little effort. Users will first enter their address to generate the exterior of their home, before scanning the interior using a compatible LiDAR-equipped iPhone. They’ll then need to position their connected devices on the map, although it’s unclear how long that process will take in homes with dozens of smart gadgets.
Once configured, the map will support light and dark modes, alongside controls for individual devices and rooms.
Alexa Home Map will begin rolling out in preview later in 2026, initially through a dedicated iOS app. Amazon also plans to bring it to the Alexa and Ring apps, larger Echo Show devices, new Alexa tablets and compatible displays. Android support is expected in early 2027.
For households already juggling plenty of connected devices, being able to tap a light where it actually sits could be considerably easier than remembering what Alexa thinks it’s called.
