Who doesn t want to be able to control their lights with their voice.
Cheapest way to control lights with alexa.
Works great with alexa.
Tap on the plus symbol at the top right of the screen tap on add group at the bottom of the screen.
Amazon echo light control is also one of the easiest smart home upgrades you can make.
Most of the time you want to control the group of lights instead of each light individually.
Being able to control.
Scenes are the best you can group lights and dimmer settings.
Smart lights are a nice jumping off point for someone curious about smart home tech.
I have around 10 different lights now set up with scenes.
Tap the devices label in the lower right corner of the screen.
You can get started with just a few smart light bulbs a smart light hub and your phone.
You can add on easily and cheaply.
Hub 2 dimmable switches.
Launch the alexa app on your iphone or ipad.
That is exactly why you need to create light groups in the alexa app.
You can easily combine lights such as lamp 1 and lamp 2 into a group called lamps to control both lights with one voice command.
However even the cheapest wi fi bulbs can be expensive so if you don t want to splash out on new lights you can instead buy smart switches that are compatible with alexa.