After the upgrade from classic, a lot of my Alexa groups stopped working. Since the new smartthings app supports lighting groups, I figured it would be a good chance to set them up there. However, I can’t get them to be discovered by Alexa. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a limitation?
Tagging @Lars.
But I believe that feature is not working. Only room assigments are passed to Alexa.
Alexa does not support rooms or groups sent from partners unfortunately, that is a limitation on Alexa side. I guess we could potentially expose lighting groups in the future as a single light.
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That’s how the old custom app TrendSetter worked and worked great with Alexa but of course it doesn’t display correctly in the New App.
I like this. Lighting Groups as a whole are so far a disappointment. But I guess that’s for another thread…
This is the approach that Phillips hue uses for hue groups with Alexa, and it works pretty well.
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An old thread but I just ran into this. I’d say lighting groups are near useless as l-is. At least allow them in rooms in ST, but certainly they should look like a single device to external systems like Alexa. Otherwise we create virtual switches to give us what we want.
I’ve got to agree with the prior posters. ST Lighting Groups are only useful when using the ST’s app…and I’d rather tell Alexa what to do rather then hunt down my phone every time I want to turn a group on/off. ST’s is forcing me to put grouping logic in Alexa. I would think ST would want as much logic in their app instead. And still an issue after 4 years? …with a solution already proposed? Hmmm.
You can create a native ST virtual switch or use a community created Edge driver that can be triggered from Alexa. Additionally, Manually Triggered Routines (formerly Scenes) can be triggered from Alexa. No need to do the grouping in Alexa.
I’d second the comments above. Lighting Groups need to be exposed to Alexa to be of any use to me.