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Google's increasingly prickly Android perception problem (www.computerworld.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

But then "turn on the lights" doesn't work. I've only got 1 speaker in the room. This would also fail if you had IoT lights in your nightstands and you wanted to control just the main (multi-light-fixture) light but not the nightstand lights, for example, which is specifically why I don't bother with IoT lights in nightstands and the like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The Alexa home app allows you to have groups of groups, so you can divide the room into separate groups, then combine them into one room group. This is what Google should be doing, pretty bad that Amazon of all people does this part of smart home management better when it's a relatively simple thing to do.

However you should be using automation from timers and sensors to turn lights on and off, the app or voice should only be needed on rare occasions. This is also something Google is shit at, I use home assistant to manage this (I have about 200 smart devices) but there are plenty of other options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The solution is to name every light in the multi light fixture with the same name. For example I have an arc lamp with 3 bulbs all named "arc lamp" saying "hey Google arc lamp on" turns all 3 on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh gotcha