Well if that is an important feature that you need then it would probably be worth paying $60 for the gen 4 Echo, since it has a jack that can be configured as either an input or an output.

https://www.amazon.com/Echo-4th-Gen/dp/B07XKF5RM3

For those following the drama here’s the email. Yeah...I agree with the group, Amazon most have been sitting on this waiting for Wink to screw up major. Way to go Sam IAm..

Dear valued Alexa smart home customer,

We are contacting you because you have the Wink smart home skill enabled in your Alexa account. We recently became aware of an outage of Wink services, which impacts your ability to control smart home devices either with the Wink app, or through Alexa. During this outage, you may experience issues controlling smart home devices connected to your Wink hub, and routines that you have set up through the Alexa app may not function as intended. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Wink outage, please contact Wink customer service. To continue to use your Zigbee smart home devices during the outage, we recommend that you connect your devices to another hub, or an Echo device with a built-in smart home hub, such as Echo (4th Gen), Echo Studio, Echo Plus, or Echo Show (2nd or 3rd Gen). Follow the below steps to continue using your smart home devices with Alexa without interruption by migrating the devices to a new smart home hub.

Migrating Zigbee & Z-Wave devices to a new smart home hub: 1. For any devices being controlled by the Wink skill, delete these devices in the Alexa App. 2. Disable the “Wink” skill in the “Skills & Games” section of the Alexa app. 3. Unplug the Wink smart home hub. 4. Remove smart home devices connected to the Wink hub by individually re-setting each device. If you’re unsure how to re-set your smart home device, search for this information on your manufacturer’s device help pages. a. If you have a Z-Wave based device, you will also need to perform Z-wave Exclusion for these devices using your new hub. 5. Once your devices are reset, you are ready to add it to your new hub. To do this, put it in pairing mode by following the instructions on its manufacturer’s support pages.

1. In your new hubs App, click on "add new device", find and pair your smart home devices to your new hub.
2. Find and enable your new hubs skill in the “Skills & Games” section of the Alexa app, then follow the on-screen instructions to link your account.
3. After enabling the Skill, say “Alexa, discover devices” to send new devices to Alexa or manually add the devices by navigating to the Devices page, and then selecting "+ Add device".

If you don’t have a separate hub at home, we’d like to extend an exclusive discount of 20% off the original price for the Echo 4th Gen to keep your smart home up and running. Eligible Echo (4th Gen) devices can be found here, bundles excluded: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XKF5RM3/ref=ZZXZ_CSE_WNK_PMO