I have been using Alexa with Roomie to control my home speaker system via voice. I recently converted to Alexa Plus, but Roomie is not yet compatible. Any idea on when that will happen?
We don’t have any plans for Alexa at the moment. Note that the Smart Home Skill is no longer available for new pairings as of Wednesday due to changes on the Amazon side – we expect that to continue. If you already paired it, it should work fine until somewhere around the end of this year (TBD on Amazon side).
The other Alexa Roomie Remote skill remains available indefinitely and should continue to work with any Alexa including for new pairings, but we have not looked into Alexa Plus.
After or as part of Roomie 10, the next voice feature we’ll be looking at is the significantly improved voice support in iOS 26 including farfield microphone support which is by far the most important missing aspect from the current Roomie Voice Control. Roomie Voice Control should be able to benefit greatly from that, but it is far from automatic. We will need to adopt it and that will take place somewhere in the Roomie 10 app either at release or thereafter.
Following that, if interest remains on the Alexa side, or if the real world experience of Roomie Voice Control as enhanced in iOS 26 as part of Roomie 10 isn’t as great as we hope it is, we could take a look at Alexa Plus then. Most likely that will be H1’26 as Roomie 10 will consume no doubt the rest of this year. For now, if you want to continue using Alexa, make sure you’re already paired and if necessary use the Roomie Remote skill.