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I can't explain it much better. It's just there is a "routine" option in the Echo app. When they introduced it last year it seemed to be an "easier" way to setup a process to turn off a bunch of lights without having to make a scene or program in the ISY. It saved me tons of "programming" time and made it easy for my family to turn off most nonessential lights. Now, with the V3 update I can't get the "routine" option to trigger any lights turning off. I can add lights, but they show up as houses with what I call "wifi" icons inside them. They don't look the same as they did before. I've gone back into the ISY portal to make sure everything is shown as a switch or light. Nothing changes on the Echo/Alexa app side. I have removed the entire routine, and recreated it. I went through the steps of forgetting all devices and turning off V2 then enabling V3 and then rediscovering the devices. Everything seemed to populate back into the Alexa app on the phone (iPhone X iOS 11.2.5). I can control some lights as usual, but some that I just installed (Fanlinc and switches) aren't showing in the new V3 even though they are in my portal. The stuff that does show up in the Alexa App shows up as I mentioned above and shown in the original post. It's interesting that each device shows up and each spoken option shows up as different devices. I have multiple spoken phrases for most lights for when family comes over they can control the lights with the Alexa with common phrases for rooms/lights in case they don't know what we specifically call it maybe they can get close enough...if we're not there. Thanks for the help. Hopefully it's a simple re-set process. I'll try forgetting the devices and re-enable V3 again tonight when I'm home.

Similar to this post (https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/23234-problem-with-routine) I'm having an issue with the V3 update and how routines work (or rather don't work). Background: Under V2 we had a "routine" in Alexa/Echo that we could simply say, "Alexa, time for bed". The result would be that it would turn off about 15 lights no matter their status. This was setup within the Alexa smartphone app (iOS). Current issue: I went through the steps to remove/deactivate V2 and "forget devices" on the computer side of Echo/Alexa. I then added V3 and found devices. Everything seems to work when I say, "Alexa, turn kitchen on" - the kitchen will turn on. (The kitchen is a Device/Light on the portal page connection). When I created the routine as we had before nothing happens. You can only create the routine on the smartphone app (I don't see routines available on the web version for Echo). Here are some screen shots showing what I see and what we're trying. Alexa/Echo made it so easy with the routines to not have to say "alexa turn "something" on" to do what we wanted. It made it easier to remember and simple for us to just say, "Alexa, time for bed" and it worked. Pictures: Menu you get on the smarphone app when opened from top left of phone Creating a new routine shows this screen Called the routine "bedtime" (for this test only). I added the kitchen light to the routine for testing. We should be able to say, "Alexa, bedtime" and it will turn the kitchen light off. This shows the kitchen and kitchen light as options. They are different because we have 2 spoken names for the kitchen ("kitchen" and "kitchen light" control the same device/switches) This shows that we want it to turn off the "kitchen" This shows how the kitchen setup in the ISY portal with the Echo connectivity. I'd like to get this working again, since it was so easy in the past. In the post linked above it got hijacked and the issue seemed not to be understood exactly what was going on. There was a suggestion made by nathagt (https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/23234-problem-with-routines/page-2?do=findComment&comment=230389) that might work...I'm going to head off to try that soon, but wanted to ask if the easy way of having a routine was broken somehow with V3 and point out the steps we went through to create this previously. It shouldn't break something in an update, but if Echo and UD aren't working together then I'm sure they could have broken the functionality of this. It was a welcomed process with Echo added "Routines". Hopefully it will be usable in the near future without having to reset a lot of different things. I look forward to suggestions! -Scott