Echo Naming Quirks

Hey @Mbhforum and @SBDOBRESCU!

Thanks for letting me know. I am working on finding out more information for you! Thanks so much for your patience!

We just posted a blog with some tips and tricks for life with Alexa, so check that out in the meantime. I’ll get back to you once I hear from my team regarding Harmony / Alexa / Yonomi functionality.

– Cait

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Excellent advice, but as a practical matter the problem often arises with

avoid using song names…

Because echo has access to thousands of songs, many of which I’ve never heard of. So avoiding those is tricky. :wink:

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No one has yet asked me why I had a light named “Whiskey.”

Same reason I had one named “Oscar,” of course. :wink:

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OW… Do the lights hurt?

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I have had this happening with my Philips smart bulbs since day one. I just gave up on a resolution and decided that nothing works 100%. If you get an answer from Echo tech support, please post.

Today, fast forward and rewind are no longer working with my TV viewing.

I use a momentary contact relay as a garage door opener and the device is called “garage door relay”. “Open Garage door” works for that, even though it’s a switch. “Close garage door” does not work but I can say "open garage door to close it again :worried:

Yup same here, but I didn’t like to say open when I was trying to close it. Ask Alexa skill works for close. I rather say alexa ask my home to close the door, instead of alexa open the door to close it. A matter of semantics nonetheless…

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So I have that same semantic dilemma. I created a group called “bedtime” to power off the TV and living room lights. But, I have my “off” switch position in the start activity sequence. It didn’t seem to work to power off TV, etc in the end sequence.
However, I have to say “turn on bedtime” to turn the TV off, but “turn off bedtime” to turn the lights off. I feel like I’m missing the obvious in my set up, but I tried a few methods and then nothing would power off.

Am I the only person for whom Alexa regularly mishears ‘off’ when I say ‘on’?

Did you try voice training in settings? Perhaps that will help.

i created a group of thermostats called Downstairs, which confused Alexa (I presume because ‘down’ is a trigger word for thermostats). I had to call it “ground floor”, but to be honest that sounds a bit stupid when I say it.

I didn’t. But it’s not just my voice, wife has same problem :smiley:

Try it with both of you it’s first, if that doesn’t help, contact Amazon.

Kinda. It often hears on for off. Gotta love it when it turns every bloody light ON when you’re trying to turn a few off!

I have an issue for Echo & Google in naming conversion:

  1. Google Home - google advised not to include “group name” in the device name, e.g. Bed room fan. So i name it in ST as “broom fan” and in Google Home app to give a nickname as “Bed room fan”.

  2. Echo - once i done above naming conversion. I can’t command echo to turn on Bed room fan, unless i move “broom fan” into single group name called “Bed room fan”.

Please advise how to support both assistance naming conversion in ST. Thanks