Hello all, creating my scenes and group activations and running into another issue with Alexa voice control. At this point i have several groups setup, grouping various lights/toggles, together for scenes. Some are asigned to button controllers and some are not. As an example, my hue bulbs are grouped together and assigned to a button controller and it works fine, both with button and voice, however, my simple groups that only combine some lutron dimmers together (No button controllers there) arent working with voce. The group name (in this case "Kitchen Lights") is imported into Alexa and i can manually trigger that group on/off in Alexa (which means the group is doing what its whould), however the voice command doesnt work, with Alexa telling me "Kitchen Lights doesnt support that), when giving a command to turn the Kitchen Lights on or off. The same command works fine for my other group with Hue lights, the only difference is, there is also a button controller with Hue. I have a feeling i'm missing something simple here...
EDIT: I've removed and recreated the group, deleting it and re-adding in Alexa and still getting the same problem. Here's the kicker, i've just created another group, also combining two different lutron dimmers, imported it into Alexa and its working fine... whereas this one is refusing to work.
My guess is it's the naming of devices.. Have you setup any groups/rooms in Alexa?
I found the best way to turn on a group in Alexa was to setup the group in Alexa.
Setup a alexa group called Kitchen and then ask alexa to turn on the kitchen, Or if there is a Alexa device in the kitchen assign that device to the group and say turn on lights, if in the kitchen.
Ok, thank for the reply, i will try. Whats strange is that another group called Activity Room Lights, works via voice just fine and is setup identically, both groups containing only Lutron dimmers..
I seem to recall there were certain reserved phrases or group names in Alexa. Kitchen lights may be one of them. Try renaming it to "purple" or "cat" or something random and see if they work then.
