Glad to see this. I didn’t notice the problem until I installed the new Echo Show that showed up today. I figured it had something to do with the new device.
Since others are seeing the same thing, I know Amazon probably ruined things in a update.
Crazy how dependent I’ve become on voice automation
Since I am dependent on voice technology, this is why I have Siri as a back up. Anything I can turn on and off with Alexa, I can also turn on and off with Siri on my watch.
I prefer Alexa because the voice recognition is better, multiple people can use it, and I also use the other features, but at least I’m not left sitting in the dark.
It wasn’t working when I got up this morning, I hadn’t been making any changes and haven’t for quite a while.
My housemate did go through and make new control groups for all the rooms and “echo, turn the lights on“ is working again for those rooms. But he had to delete the old control groups since an echo device can only belong to one group. He didn’t have to change the individual devices for this purpose, though. Just the groups.
I started to do that, but then my 30 years of marriage experience kicked in and reminded me of the futility of that particular exercise…so I swallowed my pride, said, “Yes dear” and just used the ST app.