What’s the exact name of the switch Alexa doesn’t find?
And what’s the exact behavior when Alexa doesn’t find it? Does she say anything or just turn off
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And when you check History in the Alexa app, what does she think you said?
Alexa does reserve some words for her own use, and overvtime occasionally does take back some words which used to be available.
For example, I originally had a switch called “power” I used this for over a month. I could say “turn off power” and Alexa would send the instruction to smartthings to turn off that switch.
However, that then became a reserved word for echo’s use. So if I said “Alexa, turn off power” echo turned itself off!
I ended up changing the name of the switch to “shut down.” That was all I had to do to get everything to work again.
So it may be the exact word choice is running into one at Echo is reserved words. There doesn’t seem to be a list of these anywhere, you just have to figure them out.
We do have a topic thread for echo naming quirks just to try to keep track of some of them: