[ALEXA] If you use a smart home in multiple rooms, how to name the home appliance, the same species of the same type of iron plate and the same name of the same name can be called with Alexa, so that the head of the home electronics is given the room name.If "" does not work, "Cut -off" and the home appliance name change is changed at the source of Alexa → Ideally, it is ideal to re -cooperate with Alexa.
It is difficult to use Alexa's smart home function in multiple rooms.
So, this time, I will talk about the tips for setting a large number of home appliances from Alexa in multiple rooms.
If you are aware of this area, it will also take measures against the following symptoms.
Before you enter the best practices that distinguish the same kind of home appliances installed in multiple rooms in Alexa, let's explain the differences in the concept of "rooms" in Amazon Alexa and Google Home.
The competition Google Home (Google Assistant) has a function to register a "room" where each home appliance is installed.
For this reason, for example, the "air conditioner" installed in the "study" can be called with the keyword "air conditioner of the study".
In addition, when Google Home is installed in the study room, if you register a device called "Study Air Conditioner" in a "Study" room, the equipment name will automatically change to "air conditioner", and from the study, "air conditioner".From other rooms, you will be able to call the air conditioner of the study under the name "Autumn Air Conditioner".
Previously, if you ordered "turn on electricity", it was not cool to be able to turn on the electricity of all rooms, or even the circulator connected to the smart outlet, but this problem was revised now.Even if you call on the device name, only the "lighting" in the room turned on, and it became sophisticated.
However, in a modern design home, there are many cases where voice parcels are not divided into beautifully separated in each room, so this may cause malfunction.In any case, this specification of Google Home may be easy to set because it has less time to set up and the number of words at the time of calling will be reduced.
On the other hand, Alexa does not have the concept of "room to which the device belongs", but you can specify the "group" to belong instead.
The feature is that one device can belong to multiple groups at the same time. For example, a group called "2nd floor" is created separately from the group name for each room on the second floor, and all devices on the second floor are registered there.It is also possible to use it.This is a very useful feature.
You can do something similar to the custom routine function of Google Home, but in the Alexa method, it will flexibly respond to the wording of the "operation content" part of the "group name + + operation content".Minutes, more convenient.
This area is a specification that feels the difference in design philosophy, or a company that feels like each company.
If it is a light use, Google Home may be easier to get on, but as the number of smart home appliances increases, this group function will be used very well.
In such a case, in my home, all smart home functions were naturally consolidated in Alexa.
As a result, the naming rules of home appliances and equipment at Alexa in my home settled on the following contents.(After the update of Alexa in June 2019, the naming rules were changed.)
- すべての部屋を見渡して1つしかない機器名の頭には部屋名を付けなくてもよい(付けても良い)例：「テレビ」「電気ケトル」「間接照明」など
- 一番良く使う部屋の機器名の頭にも部屋名を付けなくてよい例：（リビングの）「エアコン」「明かり」「扇風機」
- 複数の部屋に同一名称の家電がある場合は、機器名の頭に部屋名を付けるただし、「2」の一番良く使う部屋にある機器は例外とする例：（リビングの）「エアコン」「書斎エアコン」「寝室サーキュレーター」（リビングの）「明かり」「書斎の明かり」
- 「電気」を含む機器名は避け「照明」「明かり」に置き換える「電気」は特殊ワードらしい。ただし、問題なければ使ってもよい。かつては「照明」も特殊ワードだったが、今は使える印象。ダメな場合はそれも避ける。また、「間接照明」のように全く問題ないワードもあった。
- 部屋単位での操作用に「部屋名」のグループを作成する。例：「書斎」「リビング」「寝室」。ただし、誤動作する場合は、機器名の先頭に付いている部屋名と被らないよう工夫する。例：「仕事場」「ベッドルーム」など
- 機器名は可能な限り短く簡潔にする。特に、他の機器名との前方一致は避ける。例：「空気清浄機」と「空気清浄機ターボ」の共存は良くない。
- 家中の電源を操作する場合は、「全部」というグループ名を作っておく。
Feeling like that.
Of these, the most important thing is "2", "3", "4", and "5".
In Alexa, when all the home appliances installed in different rooms are unified into "room names" + "no" + home electronics "(for example, if there is a lighting in the study and the living room)," Same number of the same home appliances was found)."Which is?" Sometimes you may be mistaken for the operation of the entire room (group) for some reason.
Specifically, if the group name "Study" and the device name "Study Lighting" exist at the same time, Alexa ordered Alexa to "turn on a study" and Alexa "Study" and "No".Write down "lighting", and the group name "study" may match first.
This symptom still occurs as of July 2020, and it seems that it will be a problem in the case of specific device names such as "electricity" and "lighting".
There are other specific device names that cause symptoms, for example, "dehumidifier".For example, changing the device name to "Dry" can be avoided to avoid matches with the group name, so it is also a method to change the setting from such a viewpoint.
Regarding the internal processing of Alexa's smart home function, it does not come out, but as a heavy user feeling, I feel.
I am convinced that there is a tacit.
The flexibility of Alexa's match can sometimes cause malfunction, as in the example of the "study lighting" mentioned above, but on the other hand, home appliances registered as "study lighting" are "study".There are advantages, such as being called "lighting".This area is a place that makes you feel the complex specifications behind you.
By the way, as an escape way if you do not recognize it properly, erasing "no" between the room name and the equipment name from the device name is the trouble shooting knowledge that Alexa enthusiasts should know.
At present, according to the naming rules of "2", "3", "4", and "5", if the equipment name is correctly adjusted, and the equipment name is pronounced correctly, these symptoms can be avoided, and in practical use.It can be operated without any problems.
Alexa's recognition logic is that there is little risk of being involved in these complicated specifications unless the room name is attached to the head of the equipment name, but in fact multiple rooms have similar home appliances.There are many cases where it is installed.Please refer to this rule and send a comfortable Alexa life.
( * From October 2019 to July 2020, we returned so that the equipment could be turned off correctly with the phrase "Eraser", but this section is left in the future. Put.)
In accordance with this rule, it has been confirmed that since the update of Alexa in June 2019, a device with a room with a room, such as "Air Conditioner of the Study", will not respond by saying "erase ~".increase.
In this case, if you turn it into a phrase "Cut -down", the power will be turned off properly, so please change the way.
In the past, it was no longer effective to say "eras", but at that time it was mistaken for completing the list item ...
Many smart home appliances have dedicated management apps, and I think that the device name data is linked to Alexa.
In this case, if you change the device name on the downstream Alexa side, it is easy to know which equipment is.
So, when changing the home electricity name, it is recommended that you change the name on each management app in advance and reflect it in Alexa.
Although there may be exceptions depending on the model, it is possible to reflect the name change to the Alexa side as long as you have confirmed at hand.
Since the registered format action and the device name registered in the group may be automatically changed, the cost of trial and error around here may be low.However, the equipment in the fixed -form action may change without permission.
Ideally, as it is realized in Google Home, for example, if you say "turn on the air conditioner" in each room, only the air conditioner in the room is attached, and the room name is attached to the head only when you want to operate another room.I feel like it's smart, but if there are multiple Echo in an open space without a door, it will be difficult to determine which one to prioritize, so it may not be realistic.Maybe.
Even in my home, Alexa in the kitchen often reacts even though I ordered it in a laundry room, and in fact, the on/off of electricity is mostly when I get in and out of the room, so there are always places where I want to turn on and erase.It is not necessarily a place with a smart speaker.There are many cases where air conditioners are put in advance before going to the room and cooled or warmed.
So, the naming rules introduced this time.Please refer to it when making all your home smart home.
