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If the only thing this does is make it easier to control devices whose names I forget, than it is worth it. Because I never, ever remember what I name devices
by cruffle_duffle 2y ago
If the only thing this does is make it easier to control devices whose names I forget, than it is worth it. Because I never, ever remember what I name devices and to address them with the current implementation of Alexa I need to be pretty spot on.
- taeric 2y agoThis could be solved with a reliable way to ask the device its name. Which, for the life of me, I don't know why they don't let that work easily.
- criddell 2y agoWhen I would ask my echo to turn my reading light off it would respond with something like I don't know about a device with that name. The natural follow-up question is "what devices do you know about?". It always drove me crazy that it couldn't answer basic and obvious questions like that.
- mgiampapa 2y agoYou can take a few minutes to make a routine and give it a custom name. "Ziggy, goodnight" turns off all the lights in my bedroom, closet and office (in case I left them on), sets DnD mode on the Echo, turns it's screen off and sets my ceiling fan to speed 1. This took about 5 minutes to setup.
- brewdad 2y agoHa! You just reminded me how we changed our Alexa to Ziggy while my kid was away at college. He came home over a break and was eventually screaming "Alexa" trying to get it to wake up.