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Can Alexa turn on two things at once?
It’s called Follow-Up Mode and it lets you give multiple commands to an Alexa smart speaker like an Echo Dot without having to say the wake word each time.
Can Alexa turn lights on and off at certain times?
With Alexa Routines, you can schedule your lights to turn on and off, change brightness, and change colors. You can even create schedules for your lights to run on specific days and times.
How many devices can Alexa control?
Alexa can control an unlimited number of devices. If you want to control Alexa with multiple devices, such as smart phones, it is possible to connect multiple devices. However, Alexa will only respond through one device.
How many switches can Alexa control?
The Echo can control all 20 or so lights I have, however, when using groups to control multiple switches with a single command I have found 4-5 are all that will respond instead of all of them.
How do I turn on and off Alexa lights?
To turn the bulb on and off, you can simply say, “Alexa, turn on,” or “Alexa, turn off.” You can also dim it: “Alexa, dim to 50 percent.” Welcome to the world of smart homes.
Can Alexa turn everything off at once?
But you can create a Scene called “Bedtime” which turns off the closet light and sets the overhead light to 10%. If you just want a way to turn on or off a bunch of things at once, an Alexa Group may be quickest solution. If you want more fine-grained control, create a ST Scene and import it into the Alexa App.
Can you name smart plugs the same?
The first way is by using a device’s own app. So with a Belkin WeMo smart plug, for instance, you can go into the WeMo app and rename your smart plugs to whatever you want, like “space heater”, “bedside lamp”, or whatever the smart plug is controlling.
Can two phones control one smart plug?
A: Yes, you can actually control the smart plugs from two or more devices. However, you can’t have multiple accounts controlling the same smart plugs so you must use the same account login from all your devices.
How many devices can be connected to a smart plug?
The limiting factor for connecting Wi-Fi smart plugs becomes the router, which can support a maximum of 255 devices, depending on the router.
How can I use Alexa to turn on lights?
Eco (just today!) Connected all the above to SmartThings and used SmartThings App and Alexa to turn on / off lights. Know how to trigger using SmartThings app lights based on motion Used the home smart home monitor to auto turn on lights and alert me etc’
Is there a way to turn off the Alexa outlet?
There are several ways to do this, but one of the easiest is to set up a virtual timer for the outlet. That way you just tell echo to turn on the virtual timer, and when the virtual timer goes off the outlet goes off. But the physical outlet is still available to be controlled in other ways as you like.
Is there a 2 minute turn on time for Alexa?
You can also use the stock smart app, smart lighting, you would just set it up like the picture below. The issue with using the official smart lighting power light feature for the physical device, as discussed in the how to article in the wiki, is that then that two minute allowance will always apply no matter how you turn the device on.
Do you have to have a smart TV to use Alexa?
Note: Alexa can only switch your television on or off if it has the HDMI-CEC feature enabled. You will usually find the HDMI-CEC feature in the advanced settings of your Smart TV. Before you begin, you also need to know how to link your TV to Alexa.