The old Smartthings app allowed us to choose which items to synchronize or not with Alexa. As nowadays it is not possible in the new Smartthings app, I have several duplicated items in my Alexa app (Alexa is linked with Smartthings and Tuya Smartlife and Smartthings is linked with Tuya Smartlife too).
This is horrible problem for me. Not only concerning organizational matters, but functional issues too. In my case, I have a curtain motor registered in Smartlife that doesn’t appears duplicated in Alexa app, but I think because a bad resolution logic in Alexa, the motor appears only once (as an Smartthings exported device).
Unfortunately, the use of this particular “device coming from Smartthings” in Alexa is not possible or unstable. I know that because when a delete the curtain motor from Smartthings, Alexa magically shows only the device coming from Smartlife and it work as expected. If Smartthings app permitted choose the devices I want bring to Alexa (as in the past), I would exclude my curtain motor for sure and my problem would disappear!
Please, is there any prediction to bring this feature again? Or could you suggest other option for my case? Thanks in advance.
Hi Paul! As I said, the duplicated items in Alexa are not my biggest problem, although I hate this equally.
My biggest problem is with the curtain motor in particular. I don’t know why, but only it doesn’t appear duplicated in Alexa.
I think Smartlife and Smartthings export the device to Alexa and Alexa “merge” both devices internally and shows me only the “smartthings version”, that not work perfectly with Alexa. If I disable the smartthings exported version in Alexa, the Smartlife corresponding device doesn’t appear.
I’m able to use properly my motor in Alexa only when I delete the device in Smartthings. Then the Smartlife corresponding device appears in Alexa and works correctly. But this work only for a few hours, because after some time, Alexa resynchronize again with Smartthings and bring back the device I had deleted.
Remember, I have a circular scheme: (Alexa linked with ST and Smartlife) and (ST linked with Alexa and Smartlife). When I intend to delete some device from ST, the app says the device will “return” unless I unlink the Smartlife service and that is so radical in my opinion! Because I have devices in ST exported from Smartlife that I don’t wanna lose contact.
What I really need is disable only one device to be exported to Alexa from ST!
Unfortunately, this approach doesn’t work in my case. For some unknown reason, this device in particular (wifi curtain motor) are not duplicated in Alexa. Alexas devices section shows only the device from the Smartthings integration. Because of that, if a disable this device in Alexa, I won’t be able to control it at all. As I said, the Smart Life version of my device only appears in Alexa after I delete the “Smartthings version” of this device (in Alexa). This is the main reason I’ve opened this conversation, but is very frustrating too see all my lamps, sockets, sensors and other things duplicated in Alexa, even disabling the devices exported by Smartthings, as you said.