Turn On Hue Lights With Alexa

Alexa knows what lights to turn on based on the amazon echo device you are asking.

Turn on hue lights with alexa.

If your hue lights aren t responding to commands it s probably because someone in your household manually turned off the light fixtures. The perfect pairing for your smart home lighting setup using alexa is an echo speaker and lifx smart lights. Philips hue lights a guide to what each does and costs 1. Now your new light group will be available as a tile directly from the devices tab of the alexa app and you can ask alexa to turn on the lounge or whatever you decided to name your new group.

Use this guide to easily create an alexa light group. Group light bulbs in one lamp or group all the lights in a room. The smart home groups feature in the alexa app is perfect for making your voice lighting control even better. Turning on and off your lights brightening and dimming and other basic light controls can be executed in a variety of ways.

You don t have to specify the light that you want to turn on. Make sure to preface each command with alexa to get its attention and replace with your own light and room names. The alexa enabled echo plus and echo show 2nd generation provide basic light control as a built in smart home hub. Open the alexa app and select the smart home tab in the bottom right corner the little house shape.

If this happens you can ask alexa to turn the hue lights on and off but they won t respond. Watch this video below which shows you how to set up amazon alexa with your philips hue home lighting system. Alexa can turn on the exact lights you want just by saying turn on the lights. Alexa turn on the lights alexa turn on the living room lights alexa turn off all lights.

Our top equipment picks. Control multiple lights with one voice command with alexa. Select the plus sign. There are now many brands of smart light bulbs and as a result setup procedures may differ from brand to brand.

Alexa can turn on the exact lights you want just by saying turn on the lights. The handiest hue commands for alexa are some of the simplest. Turn all the lights off in your house using simple alexa commands alexa turn off all lights alexa lights out connecting the philips hue lights to the amazon echo. Make sure everyone in your household uses alexa to control your hue lights.