In this video we'll take a look at how to control multiple devices using groups.
We'll also add an Echo into a group that way we can say, "turn off the lights" and
it'll know which lights we're talking about. Or, "play some music" and it'll know
which Echo speakers to play the music on. Hi my name is Craig this is part of my
weekly echo series. Check out the description, I'll put links in there to
the echos if you want to learn more about them. Please, use those links they
definitely help the channel out. This is season 2, episode 3 of my weekly echo
series. Here's a playlist from last year's series if you want to check it
out. Also, I've changed the name of my device to Echo so hopefully I don't
trigger your device at home. Amazon is great about updating and adding new
features to control smart devices. Now groups isn't a new feature. But, it is a
great feature to know about if you're not using it. Groups allow you to take
multiple devices and put them into a group. That way you don't need to
remember that that's called the small lamp, that's called the tall lamp, this is
the office LED. And you don't need to keep track of all these new devices as
they enter your house. So with groups you put them all into one. The thing I like
about using groups is you can add Echoes into groups. Once a group has an echo
tied to it you can say things like, "Echo turn off lights" and it knows that lights...
Thank you It knows that when you ask to turn off
lights, since it's part of my office group, it'll turn off just the lights in the
office group. To turn the lights back on, "Echo turn on lights"
"okay" and it turned on my two Philip Hue bulbs and a smart plug that has this LED
light plugged into it. You can also do the same thing with playing music. Echo
play classical music. "playing classical music from Apple music" so it's playing
here. But it also started playing over here on my show. Echo stop. So let's
look at how to set this up. The first thing you're gonna need to do is grab
your mobile device and we're gonna open the app up. Go down to devices and here
if you're not familiar with this screen it has a list of your devices up on top.
You can also add devices by hitting the plus button in the upper right hand
corner. You'll see add a device and it'll discover it. You can also see a list of
your devices by clicking the all devices in the corner. It'll show you everything
that you have installed there. What we're gonna do is create a group. Right now I
have a bedroom group a living room lights group. I also have my speaker
groups downstairs, everywhere and the office group that you heard before. We're
gonna go up in the upper right hand corner. Hit plus. We're gonna add a group.
Give it a name, office. Done, hit next. Here we can see our Echos. If we scroll down
we'll see all of our devices. For now let's just pick out the lights that I
want. So, I have my office LED, I have my short lamp, my tall lamp and that's
all I want to control right now. So I'll hit save
and now I have a new group that's created called office. If I want to turn
off that group I can say, "Echo turn office off. Okay. Being patient for her to
respond. Now you see everything turned off. Echo turn office on. Okay. So how do I
turn off the lights without having to specify the group? Echo turn off lights.
Sorry, I didn't find a device named lights. The way we do that is we go back
into our group and you could have added this from the beginning. But, I just
wanted to show this as an example. Let's select our group that we made called
office. Let's hit edit and if we scroll through here you'll see that your
different echo devices are listed here. My bedrooms not available because it's
in another group. My living room is not available because it's also in another
group. You're only able to add echoes into one group so that it can tie it to
the devices in that group. So in here I'm gonna select my office dot and my office
show and I'll hit save. Now if I select that group you'll see that the dot and
the show are in there. I have my office LED switch, my short lamp, my tall lamp
and there's also a category here for preferred speakers. Preferred speakers is
for when you're playing music. So if I hit plus, I can have it set up so that if
I speak to one of my devices in this room, if it hears me and ask for music it
will either play music out of this echo or to play it out of this show. Or, one of
the cooler options is you can pick one of your speaker groups. So I'll just pick
the office speaker group. So now if I ask for music like I did earlier it'll come
out of both of these speakers or in the case of my living room if I wanted it to
play in the kitchen and in the living room that could all be in the
same group. I could use my downstairs group it really gives you some options.
There, so let's save that. While the coolest parts of using groups now is
opened up to us, I can say "Echo turn off the lights" and it knows which devices.
Now if I want to play music like I did before,
"Echo play classical music." Playing classical music from Apple music. Echo
turn down the music
Now we're accessing our group without having to actually specify play music on
downstairs group. It knows that if you're requesting it from either these devices
in this room to play on this specified group. Echo pause. Echo turn the lights to
50%. Okay. And it brought those lights up to 50%. it didn't bring on my smart plug
because that's not dimmable. Echo turn on the lights.
Okay. Now that lights up because it's considered a light. Echo turn lights blue
okay
Echo turn lights to full. Okay Echo turn lights to white. Okay
Echo turn lights to warm white. Okay. I still can grab things individually such
as "Echo turn tall lamp to cool white." Okay.
Having this functionality and adding the echoes to a groups really simplifies
things. I think it makes it a lot more useful for myself for my wife who's not
into most of this tech. For people who don't want to remember what everything
is called. Is it called this group? you just want to be able to leave a room and
say echo turn off lights. Okay when you wake up in the morning you
don't want to have to remember what this stuff's called. Echo turn on lights okay
That's it. That's the benefit of adding your devices into a group. It used to be
if you asked to turn off all lights your whole house would shut off because it
would just grab all the lights. But now with this you're able to kind of
customize rooms and just be able to walk from room to room and say turn lights on
turn lights off and the device will know what you're talking about.
What do you think of this feature? is this something you use or are going to
use? Let me know in the comment section. If you like this video, please hit that
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little. I appreciate you watching this. Have a great day, bye
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