Room awareness enhancement: add popular device types such as Fan, Air Conditioner, Set-top-box and let users change device type
Room awareness enhancement: add popular device types such as Fan, Air Conditioner, Set-top-box and let users change device type to their favorite. Now Alexa app allows changing device type between Light and Switch for some smart plug devices. But it would be great if for any device, users can define it as light, fan, air conditioner or set-top-box... and the room awareness feature will help simplify voice command. Users just can say: turn on the air conditioner, turn on the fan...
This device-type-changing feature will be very powerful when an infrared/RF universal remote control like Broadlink is connected to alexa. All traditional “dumb” devices can be voice controlled by alexa taking advantage of the room awareness feature.

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Kevin Wright commented
Yes, yes, yes.
I love that I can say "turn on the lights", it's crazy that we can also say "turn on the fan" or "set temperature to 23°". Smart thermostatic radiator valves are every bit as location-aware as lights are.
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Royce Pope commented
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!
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Chandra Morkonda commented
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.
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Blake commented
Bump. Please implement the features brook mentioned below.
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Tristan Wasser commented
Yes !!!!
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Anonymous commented
And yes, shades are a great idea too.
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Anonymous commented
Yes, absolutely! Especially fans!
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Blake commented
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.
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Philipp commented
Please add this for shades.
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bullfrog34 commented
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.
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Darryl Forde commented
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.
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Tim Loram commented
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
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Jeff Ferrell commented
I agree with all we need this control. Brooke is spot on all those features I've been waiting for years.
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Suresh Kavan commented
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.
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Carl commented
+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
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David Fail commented
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” -
Ryan Coodey commented
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.
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pr findlay commented
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)
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Ludvik Jerabek commented
This would be fantastic! When you have a massive house with many rooms this would be helpful.
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Ben Leow commented
Right now, it works for lights, AC, TV, temperature sensor and speaker. No luck for fan.