Echo & Alexa Forums
General Category => Amazon Echo Discussion => Topic started by: jwlv on April 05, 2016, 09:42:58 pm
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A few days ago, I got two more Wemo switches. When I added the switches to the Wemo app, I just named them by their network ID which is just a 3 digit hex number. I did this because I did not decide where I was going to use them yet.
The first thing I noticed is that Alexa automatically recognized these two new Wemo devices without having to say "find my devices."
Since then, I connected one Wemo switch to the outside walkway lights and the other to a light in the garage. Then I changed the name of the devices in the Wemo app to Walkway Light and Garage Light.
Last night as I was laying in bed, I opened the Alexa app and looked at the names of the two Wemo switches. Alexa still knew them as the 3 digit hex number. Whenever you ask Alexa to "find my devices" she announces some useless information on every Echo in the house (we have 4 now). People were sleeping, so I figured I would do that later.
It is a surprise to me that I didn't have to say "find my devices." Alexa got the new names all by herself.
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A few days ago, I got two more Wemo switches. When I added the switches to the Wemo app, I just named them by their network ID which is just a 3 digit hex number. I did this because I did not decide where I was going to use them yet.
The first thing I noticed is that Alexa automatically recognized these two new Wemo devices without having to say "find my devices."
Since then, I connected one Wemo switch to the outside walkway lights and the other to a light in the garage. Then I changed the name of the devices in the Wemo app to Walkway Light and Garage Light.
Last night as I was laying in bed, I opened the Alexa app and looked at the names of the two Wemo switches. Alexa still knew them as the 3 digit hex number. Whenever you ask Alexa to "find my devices" she announces some useless information on every Echo in the house (we have 4 now). People were sleeping, so I figured I would do that later.
It is a surprise to me that I didn't have to say "find my devices." Alexa got the new names all by herself.
sounds a lot easier than when I installed about 7 wemo insight switches when I first got the echo.
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It's even easier if you control your Wemo devices via a SmartThings hub.
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I tried to use the hub but to me it was worse... and lagged terribly. WEMO app is easier to use, setup, for example: times on at sunset etc. Maybe I'm just more used to it.
I can't speak to more involved setups, as the only WeMo device I have is a single plug that controls a small table lamp that an ST rule turns on (along with 5 other downstairs lights) 30 minutes before sunset, and that's part of a group that's turned off via an Echo. I haven't noticed any lag there. But then again, I haven't really been looking for it.
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I tried to use the hub but to me it was worse... and lagged terribly. WEMO app is easier to use, setup, for example: times on at sunset etc. Maybe I'm just more used to it.
It's even easier if you control your Wemo devices via a SmartThings hub.
seems to me, a hub would add a lag to a wemo setup. Maybe not noticeable but there would be one since there is an extra gateway for it to go through.