Discover Devices specific to the Echo

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NewUser-0cdc6273-197d-4bad-97f2-fe10d2639708 asked · Feb 08 at 09:25 PM

Discover Devices specific to the Echo

I am looking to use Alexa in a commercial setting. A simplified example of my problem is this:

- I have two conference rooms, each with their own echo and TV

- In each conference room, I would like to be able to say "Alexa, turn on the TV" or "Alexa change the input on the TV to HDMI"

- However, "the TV" would refer to two different devices - one in each conference room

How does this work with device discovery? Do I need to return each TV with a unique identifier during discovery, and then in my lambda function translate the request for "the TV" to the appropriate room based on the echo device that initiated the request? I am open to using Alexa for Business if that makes this possible.

Thanks in advance.

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Answer 1 · 2019-02-09T08:51:00Z

GlennL answered · Feb 09 at 08:51 AM

You have to create two groups. Eg Conference room 1 and conference room 2.

Assign each Echo to a group then when you say turn on TV it only refers to that room. There is no way to limit discovery per device.

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NewUser-41675ba5-65a7-492f-be36-3de2c44d44fa · Feb 14 at 09:40 AM

But is there a possibility to create it automaticlly, after acticating the skill. Because when I have for example two echo dots in two different appartments and I have about 20 devices in each place or there are devices with the same name. How I can handle this with the skill?

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Answer 2 · 2019-02-26T15:32:08Z

barry@amazon answered · Feb 26 at 03:32 PM

Hello and thank you for your message.

Every device has a different endpointId that you can collect during the discovery phase. You could use those to differentiate between devices with same name. However if the devices have all the same name, it becomes complicated for the user to interact with them.

Regards,
Barry

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