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Originally Posted by wodin
All of my Echos are on the same account. What I want them to do is to establish an intercom link from the one that I'm near (initiating device), and blast the whole house. When someone answers from another Echo (answering device), limit the link to only those two. Then close the link when either of them are told to hang up. It would be nice if the whole house blast could include the name of the person I want to talk to.
The syntax of the initiating and answering commands is unimportant just so everyone knows it.
It might go something like this:
me in living room: "Alexa; intercom wife"
Alexa: "OK" {optional}
whole house: "wife"
wife in bedroom: "Alexa; answer"
Link limited to living room and bedroom
Conversation
Living room or bedroom: "Alexa; stop intercom"
link closed
That doesn't seem so hard to me, but then I'm not a software engineer, and even if I were I don't have the source code for the Echo's firmware.
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Contributing to the fantasy, I would suggest two changes to your scenario:
Instead of the whole house saying "wife", it would say "calling 'wife' from {name of initating station}"
And, if instead of "wife" you said the name of another device (or a contact name, or however a device is recognized for calling) then it would not alert the whole house, but just that station.