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Originally Posted by ApK
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We had smart thermostats assigned to Alexa room groups. For all the time we've had it set up, it simply allowed us to say "Raise the heat" or similar, without having to specify which thermostat we meant. But that suddenly broke. So I removed the thermostats from the groups, and now the light commands again work as they always have.
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We've had similar problems when using Google home to control lights and heating. One thing that seemed to help was giving the devices very explicit names. So you would name a thermostat "Living room radiator" instead of just "Living room". It takes a bit longer to say commands - "OK Google set living room radiator to 20 degrees" - but it disambiguates it enough to make it work.
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Originally Posted by ApK
It's little imperfections like that that leave me with no desire to have the locks or the garage door or similar hooked up to these internet systems, but stuff with less consequences, sure, why not. I run a private VPN server, so I can control purely local stuff remotely if I really want to, and I use a purely local video doorbell system, but as long as the consequences of abuse or inadvertent activation low, I'll sometimes use a device that depends on some random Chinese server, if it's cheap and convenient.
And I too consider myself in the IT/sysop/programmer camp.
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Ditto. I get enough hassle during my working day. I don't like having to update the firmware on light switches as a hobby...
Andrew