Controlling and managing home with Amazon Alexa is one of the most quirky things to do. Alexa works on advanced virtual assistant AI produced by Amazon. It can be used for voice interaction, settings alarm, making to-do lists, music playback, playing audiobooks, streaming podcasts etc. Here, in this blog, you will find all the tricks on how to control and customize your home lightings with ease.
Here is how to set up and control smart lightings with Alexa
Setting Up and Controlling Smart Lights with Alexa
- First and foremost, launch your Alexa application directly on your device’s screen.
- Then, hit the “More” menu situated at the lowermost section of the screen.
- Now, tap on “Add a Device” parked at the bottom portion of your device’s display.
- After some time, a prompt will ask you “what type of device are you setting up?” It will show you popular brands and device categories there. You may easily select a particular brand or hit the Lights button.
- Next, choose the brand of smart light you need to set up. You may select any of the available.
- If you have selected “Philips Hue,” then you will be asked to connect your Philips Hue lights to the in-built hub of Alexa.
- Press the Discover Devices option to connect to the Alexa Hub.
- In case you don’t have an Amazon device with the built-in hub of Alexa, then you will be asked a question related to the hub you are using. Most of the smart light manufacturers need a hub or bridge gadget to turn on their lightings to communicate with the voice AI of Alexa. If you are using a voice assistant with your smart bulb, then ensure that you have a relevant Alexa hub.
- Choose the bridge device there.
- After that, it will ask to connect your light to Alexa by downloading the respective app. If it is Philips Hue; then you need to download the Philips Hue app directly on your device by abiding all the set-up process.
- Once you have connected your Philips Hue light to Amazon Alexa in both the apps, then you will be required to tap the Continue button and turn on your Philips Hue Alexa Skill. Once more, it is common for most of the light manufacturing companies.
- Then, press the tab “Enable to Use” into the skill and follow onscreen prompts there.
- Now, you have connected the smart light bulb to Alexa successfully. Now tell Alexa to enable or disable lights. You may ask it to change light’s colour.
- In case you desire to make illuminations more effective and smart, then control entire rooms or set up theme-based lighting.
Setting Up and Controlling Smart Light Group with Alexa
- Hit the Devices tab situated at the lowermost right-hand side portion of Alexa app.
- Then, press the “+” signed icon located at the uppermost right-hand side edge of the screen.
- Then, press the “Add Group” tab.
- Now, you may choose the pre-defined group name; for instance “per room” or use the Custom Name.
- Hit the Next button and then select the device or light bulb you want to add to the respective group.
- Now, press the Save button there.
Note: You may create as many groups as you wish by repeating the same procedure. Then, tell Alexa to perform actions like: “Alexa, turn on the lights in the office,” or “Alexa, change the drawing-room lights to yellow” etc.
How to Set-up and Control Smart Light Routine with Alexa?
- Open the Alexa app directly on your smartphone.
- Now, hit the hamburger icon “More.” It is located at the lowermost right-hand side section of the page.
- Click on the “Routines” option.
- The followed screen will display all the previous routines that you can have already set up. You may also choose anyone from the Amazon sponsored featured routines.
- If you desire to create a new routine, hit the “+” icon located at the uppermost right-hand side edge of the screen.
- After a while, a New Routine screen will display, and you need to tap the “+” signed option located just after the respective option.
- Now enter “Routine” name and then create a new name for your routine.
- Next, you may select the trigger by clicking the option “When this happens” and then choose an action for the specific trigger.
- In case you have selected Voice and enter in a voice command for Alexa to trigger the next action. Still, you may select the relevant option based on your schedule, a device action, an alarm, arriving or leaving schedule from the particular location. Alternatively, you may tap the Echo button.
- After that, hit the Add Action tab that will allow you to select several responses for triggering various actions like playing music, switching on or off smart lights, reading latest news directly from the Smart Home tab.
- Next, press the Smart Home button, you will see a new screen related to the Control Group or All Devices. In case you choose “All Devices,” then you can select the particular device to be added for the action. If you clicked the Control group tab, you might easily select the particular group for adding to the associated action.
Setting Up and Control Smart Lights with Alexa Guard
- Launch the Alexa app directly on your smartphone.
- Then, press the menu “More.”
- After that, hit the Settings option.
- Scroll down the page and hit the Guard option located inside the Settings menu.
- After a while, the Alexa Guard screen will come into view. Then you need to press the Settings icon situated at the uppermost right-hand side edge.
- In case you have already set-up all your smart lights and linked them to Alexa voice assistant based on the earlier section, then you may easily hit the turn on “Away Lighting.”
- It will enable Alexa AI to turn connected lights automatically activated once the Guard set up properly.
Conclusion
Alexa is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon to facilitate users with advanced virtual AI technology. It can be used for various outstanding actions and tasks such as streaming podcasts, playing music, making to-do lists, setting alarms, and getting weather and traffic status with real-time data. One can use this AI functionality to switch on or off home illuminations very easily.
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