It’s utterly insane to me that I need to put “Room” in the name of Groups because Alexa is too stupid to put two and two together.
If my kid’s room is just named “Kid” and I say “turn off the lights in Kid’s room” I just get told sorry there’s no group like that.
How do people reckon this is good or better even?
In contrast Homekit knows it’s a room and doesn’t need to be actively told with perfect phrases how to do this ****.
I literally feel you need to drip feed Alexa every step of the way to make it work where Siri/HomeKit simply works organically with no deeper intervention.
It’s like everything is treated individually and there is no hierarchy or links between stuff whatsoever.
There’s also nothing clever stripping names away for things inside the same area.
So if it’s Simon’s Room then everything inside needs to be called Simon Bedside light, Simon Fan, Simon Light Strip, otherwise you can’t find it in the main list and you also can’t really use it.
HomeKit you make things similarly but it’s displayed intelligently. So you don’t need to say “Simon’s Room” but just “Simon” because it already knows it’s a room. And then it shows that as “Light Strip” or “Bedside” or whatever inside that grouping even though it’s named as “Simon Light Strip”.
So when you say “turn off all the lights in Simon’s Room” it uses its brain and does that instead of telling you a pre-made group like that doesn’t exist.
Am I missing something deeply obvious here? Or is Alexa just thar dumb that it expect me to manually create every little thing for it to make it work?
It is honestly easier to pull the app out and do it there than argue with the thing every time. And don’t even get me started on how idiotic the app structure is either…
