Looking forward to being able to label all my fans “fan” and just turn them on based on what group/room they are in. Please add this Amazon Devs!

This is a basic feature in my view. If I say fan on the fan in that room should be switched on, otherwise its irritating. this should be implemented asap.

Bump. Please implement the features brook mentioned below.

Yes !!!!

And yes, shades are a great idea too.

Yes, absolutely! Especially fans!

Please do this! I have finally got all of mg devices showing under the proper category, just to find out this isn't possible get.

Please add this for shades.

Completely agree. Ceiling fans and shades are my biggest pet peeves on this front. I don't understand why this isn't just a simple copy/paste from the code that was used for lights.

It was easy enough to implement room awareness for lights a couple years ago, there should be no reason why the functionality cannot be extended to other smart devices like fans etc. in 2020. Hoping that Amazon will comment on if/when this expanded functionality will be rolled out.

Agree, this basic functionality should be supported across all display categories: https://developer.amazon.com/en-GB/docs/alexa/device-apis/alexa-discovery.html#display-categories

I agree with all we need this control. Brooke is spot on all those features I've been waiting for years.

This is such a basic but critical function. Another example, all my lights in each bedroom are smart.

I want to say "Alexa, turn on the bedside lights" in any room - and since those lights are already in a group with that rooms Alexa device, it should just work. But it doesn't and I have to say "Alexa turn on the Guest Bedroom Bedside Lights". I should also be able to create nested groups. So I can say Alexa dim the main lights in any room. and so on.

I have been waiting for this for quite literally, years!

Could Amazon opine on whether this is in the works or is just something they can't/won't do for some reason.

+1

Fans, Blinds and other devices should use natural semantics with room awareness, my blinds / fans and other devices do not have names only for alexa and thats odd - such and easy fix and big win for alexa usage

Another +1 for this!!!
I have multiple rooms with fans and would love to say “Alexa, set the fan to 50%” instead of telling her “the living room fan” or the “master bedroom fan”

I have been waiting for this feature since first purchasing echos for the smart home several years ago... Not sure why this has not been a high priority. Why can we say "turn on the light" but not just as simply "turn on the fan". Please implement this.

why narrow it down to device type. if alexa knows where you are and you have a "train" grouped with your echo device, you should be able to say "alexa turn on the train" rather than "turn on the office train" (or whatever)

This would be fantastic! When you have a massive house with many rooms this would be helpful.

Right now, it works for lights, AC, TV, temperature sensor and speaker. No luck for fan.

There are lots of use cases for this in my home... Please implement this Amazon!