Does Amazon Echo room awareness work with anything besides lights?

I have room awareness working with lights. I can say “turn on the light” and it works.

But if I put something named “fan” in a group, I get the dreaded “a few things share that name…” response.

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I have ecobee room semsors and it works with those. So I can say, alexa what is the temp in the room. and it returns the temp sensor of that room. I do have fans too, but no such luck with those, Maybe sometime in the future. Maybe you could set up a light template for the fan, then add it to alexa as a light. Then you could treat it as a dimmer. 0-33 = low, 34-66 - med, and 67+ = high.

I’d have to do some thinking on naming to get it to work naturally.

I’ve already tried setting the fan as a light by changing the device type from switch to light in the Alexa app. It states there:

“Changing the type to light will allow you to control the switch as a light in your Alexa-Enabled Group… ‘Alexa, turn on the lights’”

I also tried changing the display_categories option in my alexa:smart_home setup. Neither of which allow the fan to act like a light.

Change it in HA, use a light template. and then expose the light to Alexa, not the switch


light:
  - platform: template
    lights:
  - platform: switch
    name: fan name here
    entity_id: switch.fan_device_name

Thanks, I’ll give that a try tonight.

So far, only these display categories work…

  1. LIGHT (e.g. Turn on the lights)
  2. TEMPERATURE_SENSOR (e.g. What is the temperature in [name of Alexa smart group])
  3. THERMOSTAT (e.g. Turn on AC)
  4. TV (e.g. Turn on TV)
  5. SPEAKER (e.g. Turn on speaker)

No luck with fan.

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