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Originally Posted by ApK
The "lights" thing does work the way you want. If you create a group (say 'kitchen') and add the lights that are in the the kitchen and the Echo device that's in the kitchen to that group, then when THAT echo hears "turn on the lights" then it turns on the lights in that group. We have our kitchen, living room and bedroom configured that way now.
I don't know if that mechanism integrates with non-light devices though, or, indeed, if it works for anything other the built in "lights" identifier.
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That doesn't seem to prevent other Echo devices from also controlling that Group. I added my "Bathroom Dot2" to my Group "Bathroom" which also includes "Bedroom Lamp" and "Bath Light" but the Group "Bathroom" can still be controlled by all of my Echo devices, not just the one named "Bathroom Dot2."
I also noticed that I could only add one Echo to the Group "Bathroom." That might be because I only had that one Echo device not already assigned to another Group, or perhaps only one Echo device can be assigned to any Group. I'm not sure which is the case. At any rate, Groups don't limit which Echo devices control them at least in my case, unless there is another setting somewhere that I'm not setting properly.