I recently added a new hub in a second property, and I have everything setup on HE. What I'm wondering about is after I enable the Amazon Echo, it wasn't really working. So diable the HE skill within Alexa and reenabled. It asked me to choose between the two HE hubs... so, can I not have the Alexa integration in multiple places/hubs?
Not with the same Amazon account. Use a separate account for your second location.
An alternative that I think will work would be to give your devices at both locations completely unique names; then use HubConnect to share devices from the second location to the first location, and connect the Alexa Skill to the first hub. I tag @csteele for him to determine if this will work.
I have this exact problem and found two solutions, each with their own tradeoffs.
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Use separate Alexa accounts and two Hubitat integrations, one of each for each of your locations. Pretty straightforward.
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Use a single Alexa account with a single Hubitat-Alexa integration. But then you’d have to use HubConnect (or similar) to bridge devices from one location to wherever the Alexa integration is running. And you’ll also want to be thoughtful about naming your devices since Alexa gets confused with two “Kitchen Light” devices. As others have pointed out, there is some limited facility in the Alexa app to assign devices in Alexa to individual echos so that if you command an Alexa device in house one to turn on Kitchen Lights, Alexa knows which device you mean. I’ve had mixed success with this so far, but tbh haven’t spent a lot of time on it.
Hope this helps. Curious to hear if others have creative solutions.
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Does it matter if the two separate accounts are family accounts? Thanks, BTW
I know this is an old thread but I'm going through the same thing right now. From what I am finding out it can't be a related family account because the app just associates you right back into the original account. I think you're going to have to set up a dummy email address and make a completely new account. If only the dang Homekit integration would get fixed, then I could use homekit in one house and Alexa in the other. But Homekit keeps telling me devices aren't responding.
My solve was to use my account at one location and my wife's account at the other. We have a family account and this works. Sort of a pain when setting up, but it does work.
We use alexa for all of our grocery lists, todo lists, etc between two houses so I didn't want to lose that. I ended up getting a Fire tablet to use as a dashboard and turned on alexa on the tablet, but named it Amazon. So now when I want to control hubitat I say amazon blah blah and we can still use alexa for everything else. It really is perfect and I love having the fire tablet for a dashboard. Going to mount it on the wall between the kitchen and den.
If you don't want a tablet, you can pick up a cheap used echo dot or something to do the same thing for like $10
