Amazon Alexa + Ring

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Control of floodlight from Alexa
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I would like to be able to tell Alexa "all floodlights on", so that if something spooked me I could get multiple floods on, light up the whole outside at once. Finding a phone and cranking up the ring app in the middle of the night? That is why I have voice control.  All lights inside is one command. But Alexa won't turn on my floods. This starts with getting the ability to control one light from an Alexa app, which means that the path would be there so that I could create an Alexa routine.   The ability to control the light part exists...I can control it from the Ring app. But when I try to do the simple act of controlling one floodlight from Alexa, I can't.  When I tried to figure out why, it seems that it was just left off of the ring app that connects Alexa to Ring devices. I'm heavily invested in Alexa for home automation.  When you advertise "works with Alexa" that should mean that all features of the product, or at least all major features, should work with Alexa.  The controllable light feature of the camera floodlight is one of the major features of the product.  It should work with Alexa. Edit:  This may be working after all! OK, I named my camera Fred.  I can show the video for Fred (on, say, an Echo Show) by saying "show Fred" but if I try to turn the light on using voice, and I try to say "Turn on Fred" or any variation of that, it refuses. That is where I was when I wrote the above rant. But somehow I added the light on Fred to a group called "backyard" and I can say "Alexa, turn on Backyard" and the light comes on. This will probably allow me to build the skill I need to turn on a set of lights in a situation.  I have no idea why a light in a group is somehow controllable while a light attached to a camera is not.  If Alexa treats the light as a separate device, fine, but it should be in the documentation.  If you can't use the lights on your wired floodlight camera, maybe they need to be added to a light group.  I'm confused....but it works.

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