Hello,
I have one alexa echo dot and one echo plus and I’m trying to setup group awareness with Alexa Groups
I have created two items with the name TV with tag {“Switchable”] and put them in separate groups along with the alexa echo in the same room, one group Bedroom and one group Livingroom.
I have tried Alexa turn on TV and i get that “I found more than one device with the name TV. Please create unique names then run discovery again or create a group if you want to run them simultaneously”
I want to be able to turn on TV by just telling alexa turn on TV in the current room.
I have also tried naming the devices “Livingroom TV” and “Bedroom TV” and adding them to the relevant group but sill i have to say “Alexa turn on bedroom tv” instead of “Alexa turn on tv”
Any ideas how room awareness works? What i’m i doing wrong?
It seems that room awareness doesn’t exactly works as i thought.
After some searching, i found that it works only with lights and [“Lighting”] tags in the current room.
For example i everything i put in a group that is tagged [“Lighting”] and i say “Alexa turn on lights” it turns on all lighting tagged items within the same group.
It seems that alexa groups and room awareness is not working as I had it in mind
What you need is a rule utilizing the lastvoicecommand channel to detect which echo is handling your command and then respectively turn on the right device
