Making Smart Automation Work in Your Home
Smart home automation tools such as wifi connected light sockets or smart wifi power bars are available to all consumers. But the key to making your home a smart home starts with organizing your connected device in such a way that Google or Alexa will be able to identify the device you are referring to.
Use Unique Names for your Devices
Creating naming rules will help you no only when adding new devices but also save you the trouble of having to rename and relearn those names in the future. It’s easy to get frustrated when Google or Alexa doesn’t understand what living room light you want to turn on or off. As they will continually ask you to repeat the name of the device. Its help to give each device a unique name, such as “Office light” or “Office outlet”
Use Groups to identify devices
Another important aspect of smart home nomenclature, are segmenting devices into groups. An easy method is to create group name based on the room they are located in. A group of devices in your office should be named Office, a group for your bedroom should be name bedroom , and so on. An exception would be for things not tied to a room. For example if your christmas lights are connected to smart outdoor outlets, put them in a group name “Christmas”. Then tell your voice assistant “turn off Christmas” when you want to control this group.
Similar Devices should be named after Their Location
You should name most devices after their physical area in the room. This particularly applies to smart lights, as you presumably have more than one of every a room. In the event that you have a smart light named “chimney” and another light named “window,” you will have a superior possibility of recollecting their one of a kind names. This issues most when you need to control singular gadgets, for example, the light above or over the room from your television.
Keep in mind, while controlling individual gadgets it’s not just vital your voice colleague comprehend what smart thing you’re alluding to. It’s likewise critical you can without much of a stretch review what name to utilize.
On the off chance that you can take a gander at a gadget’s area and effectively recall its name, that will make everything less demanding. On the off chance that the name of the area itself won’t work, at that point have a go at something related with that area. For instance, we named a light close to our home excitement focus “PlayStation” on the grounds that the television itself is voice controlled, yet the PlayStation isn’t. The more evident name is taken, however despite everything we found a one of a kind name for our devices.
Include numbers for large groups of devices
Some of the time you don’t have to control all the diverse smart things in a room or gathering. In the event that you have three overhead lights in the kitchen that are constrained by a solitary switch, it’s impossible you’ll ever turn on only a couple by voice. In like manner, in the event that you have all your open air Christmas lights on a smart outlet, you presumably won’t turn them on one by one. The best activity is name them consecutively after their related gathering. For kitchen lights, that could be Kitchen 1, Kitchen 2, Kitchen 3. For the Christmas lights, you could name them Christmas 1, Christmas 2, Christmas 3, etc.
On the uncommon event that you would like to control only a solitary smart device, Google and Alexa can at present handle this. The principle reason here is distinguishing the gadgets less demanding when you’re gathering them—from that point onward, you’ll control them by their gathering name. What’s more, you won’t need to invest much energy thinking about a one of a kind name. The number in the name is as yet important. It maintains a strategic distance from the disarray of your voice assistant asking “which kitchen do you mean?”
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