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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That's the opposite of what I want. I NEED them to be tied to a specific Echo device. I already have groups that I can use from any echo in the house. But I don't WANT the living room echo to be able to turn on the bedroom lights. And I don't want my bedroom echo to be able to turn on the living room tv. I can't have a simple, concise name like "Bedroom Light" because their are multiple bedrooms with different people using using different echos to control the lights.
What I need is a way for "Bedroom Lights" to only work for the lights in Bedroom A when spoken to Echo A (located in Bedroom A). I don't want Echo B in Bedroom B to be able to control Bedroom A's "Bedroom Lights."
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I'm not sure if it is possible to link a single Echo device with specific smart home devices, but it might be. I do know that you can link one Echo device to a Fire TV, and I think you can only link one to it. So obviously Amazon has the ability to do that, but whether 3rd party smart home devices have that ability built in is another story. That is also why it gets rather complicated. We are limited by what the 3rd party manufacturers build into their devices, and how well they integrate those features and functions. Good luck, and I understand your frustrations. I certainly think Amazon needs to get more engineers who actually use these devices to work on them. They don't always seem to understand how people use them in the real world.
ETA: In the meantime you will likely have to find a workaround that you might not like as much. Amazon obviously did not design the Alexa smart home systems to be as complex and all encompassing as many of us would have liked. You CAN do it through clever, well thought out naming schemes associated with Groups, though you obviously don't want to, and I understand that. But it is what it is, a smart home system designed with a few controls and purposely kept on a level that people can set up without calling in system engineers to set it up and maintain it for them. If they make it too complex, customers would so complain.