This can take ages to do if you have various lights, especially due to how many scenes get imported (see issue 5 for more on this!). Then I had to delete each light and scene from the Alexa app. I did this by renaming my lights, and giving them silly names that I won’t say to Alexa: My Hue app shows my uniquely named bulbs, which hopefully won’t confuse Alexa anymore. Unfortunately the solution is to rename either your room or the lights in the Hue app, so that they are no longer the same. The issue here, other than the Alexa app having lots of duplicates, is that when you say “ Alexa, turn on my bedroom light” to your Echo device, your Alexa will reply with “ A few things share the name ‘my bedroom light’ which one did you want?“Īnnoyingly if you then just say “ my bedroom light“, Alexa will turn on your bedroom light without further complaints! Fixing this issue However this causes an issue when you import your Hue bulbs into Alexa, since it doesn’t see any difference between the room and the light – resulting in lots of duplicates: My bulbs appear as duplicates within Alexa, e.g. My bulbs are named the same as the room they’re in. “Hallway”: Hue app showing my four room names. ![]() ![]() Hence it’s easy to do what I did and call your room and the bulb inside it the same name, e.g. After all, if you’re just starting out with smart lighting, you’ll probably just have one bulb per room. When you’re first setting things up in the Hue app, it’s hard to know what to name each bulb and room. 5.1) Solution Issue 1: Bulb/room naming confusion
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