Yes, this is a known issue. There are a number of discussion threads about it going back to 2016. Smartthings will expose multiple locations to echo, but which one it will control at any time seems to be random. You can’t assign a specific Echo to a specific SmartThings location.
The solution is to have two smartthings accounts and two echo account, although that doesn’t fit for everyone.
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I’m hoping someone can help me sort this one out…
Short version. I currently have 2 “locations” in my smart things account, my house and my Mother’s apartment. When I go to enable my Smartthings Skill for my Amazon Echo I choose to link it to the location which is my house. When I go to have Echo scan for devices however it picks up the devices at the location which is my Mother’s apartment.
Has anyone been able to get the Amazon Skill to successfully work with 2 different Smart Things locations?
And, yes I have tried choosing the location that is her apartment thinking maybe they got mixed up somehow. No mater which location I choose I get her devices.
Here is my situation. I have a ST hub and devices at my house, and my father also has a ST hub and devices at his house. We also both have Echo Dots installed. We each had our individual systems working fine with my Dot working with my ST hub and his Dot working with his ST hub. My father added me as a user on his ST, which is on a separate account. When I accepted, suddenly my echo Dot no longer works with my stuff, but I can turn on his lights and other devices by talking to my Echo Dot which is physically 50 miles away. I have tried many things to get around this with no real solution.
I have a sub-standard solution, but is not acceptable as far as I am concerned. What I would up doing is creating a new e-mail account and a new ST user account under that e-mail and my father added …
I just thought I’d post this in case it tripped up someone else
I already have an echo with a large amount of lights hooked up to it. I decided to buy an echo for my dad who has 5 lights total, and then set it up so that he could trigger them thru alexa with the smartthings integration. He has his own amazon account + smartthings account.
I went home and then noticed that none of my commands were working, and that only 5 lights were showing up in discovery after I deleted everything on Echo. This should have been the part where I realized what happened, but a few more hours would pass before that hit me.
After a few hours of troubleshooting I remembered that I granted myself access to his hub as a different location on my account. Apparently, if you have 2 locations Alexa can only cont…
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