Forgive me if this has been discussed before, elsewhere, a million times. I do not even know how to begin finding results with the searches I’ve done. My issue is this: my echo dot responds to requests that there are “multiple devices that share that name. which one did you want?” Obviously she’s a …

I’m sure that’s very frustrating. :scream: I’ve had very good luck with Amazon support for Echo, I would definitely try them for something like this.

[image] Andy_Armijo: Obviously LMAO. Add them to a group and name the group something more unique. That’s what I has to do.

Adding them to a group would do nothing. The issue isn’t with alexa overall. It is specific to one alexa device, so there must be something to do to that one device to fix the issue.

I had this problem. My great room has an ecobee sensor that shows up in Alexa as both motion and temp sensors and I have an actual motion sensor. I named these Grate Room, since I know which is which inside of smartthings. I also have a light I refer to in smartthings as great room. Recently the Ale…

[image] Expose: PRecently the Alexa app was updated to include motion sensors, I can’t figure out why yet but I can guess. You can now trigger an echo routine (not a smartthings routine) when a sensor detects something. :sunglasses: [image] Using Contact and Motion Sensors …

I suspected it was something like that. I didn’t add any motion sensors into any of my Alexa groups yet. I was really hoping I would be able to say, “Alexa, turn the light off 2 minutes after motion stops” or something like that. Maybe it’s coming. I’m still waiting for the ability to control based…

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You can now trigger an echo routine (not a smartthings routine) when a sensor detects something.

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