Lights smart lighting lets you control your connected lights remotely or by voice when paired with alexa.
Controlling lights with alexa.
You can also set automations and zoning to automatically control lighting by your schedule and most used rooms.
The smart home groups feature in the alexa app is perfect for making your voice lighting control even better use this guide to easily create your alexa light group.
Group light bulbs in one lamp or group all the lights in a room.
An alexa smart speaker has the power to control your lights plugs and other devices and it s so easy to set up.
Buying a connected bulb is the simplest way to get alexa to control your home lighting but it can be a little impractical if you had scores of bulbs around the room.
Alexa turn on the light if you have a single bulb or use the bulb s name or room if you have multiple smart lights.
Your alexa echo device will learn your lighting preferences and patterns and adjust according.
It looks like three lines.
Tap the menu icon in the top left corner of the screen.
Control multiple lights with one voice command with alexa.
Better yet you can just shout to alexa and control the lights with your voice.
Create light groups control groups of lights or light bulbs with one command.
Enable alexa brief mode shorten alexa s responses and.
First you re going to need some alexa devices which including smart bulbs such as philips hue or lifx connected plugs followed by smart home hubs thermostats and security cameras.
Once your smart lights are connected to your home wi fi follow the manufacturer s instructions you re ready to connect your lights with your echo so that you can ask alexa to control them.
Controlling your smart lights with alexa with setup complete you can control the lights either by tapping at the alexa app or by speaking to alexa on your echo speaker.
A device with alexa built in or the alexa app you need at least one piece of hardware from this list that is compatible with alexa before you can control a light along with the latest version of.
Smart bulbs can come with the ability to dim or change color so you can adjust the mood of any room and in a wide array of sizes to fit light fixtures or lamps.
In just a few simple steps you now have a connected system of voice controlled mood lights around your home.
Create custom routines your own custom voice commands to control lights with alexa routines.
You simply need to buy smart led bulbs that can connect to wifi or a smart hub that s compatible with amazon s echo.
Launch the alexa app on your iphone or ipad.