I am setting up my lights to be turned on. I am now getting anything with "master" in the name instead of it being "Master bath" it turns on the bath and master bedroom and master closet. It seems to be leaking into my other bathrooms to. How are people working around this. I hate to make up different names, like Crapper for one bathroom and pisser for another.

I have mine set up this way, but don't have this issue.

 

 

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I have the same problem as the OP. It seems like Google decides if any words match and then turns on all the matching devices. I think it does indicate in its confirmation whether it has a unique match (eg "Turning on normal family room lights") vs an approximate match (eg "Turning on 3 lights") - the number in the latter indicating there are multiple matches. Unfortunately, though, there's no way to know which lights (ie devices / scenes / whatever) it's decided to turn on - it'd be nice if the Activity Detail included that, and it'd be nicer still if you could feed back to Google the fact it got it wrong!

I have the same problem as the OP. It seems like Google decides if any words match and then turns on all the matching devices. I think it does indicate in its confirmation whether it has a unique match (eg "Turning on normal family room lights") vs an approximate match (eg "Turning on 3 lights") - the number in the latter indicating there are multiple matches. Unfortunately, though, there's no way to know which lights (ie devices / scenes / whatever) it's decided to turn on - it'd be nice if the Activity Detail included that, and it'd be nicer still if you could feed back to Google the fact it got it wrong!

AI at it's finest!

 

Don't ever let google find out you automated your toilets! They will be flushing them just before you get home every time, so they are fresh when you get there! LOL

I'm working on renaming things. It will be awesome when Google knows your room. I don't have a huge house so I can work around for now.

AI at it's finest!

 

Don't ever let google find out you automated your toilets! They will be flushing them just before you get home every time, so they are fresh when you get there! LOL

 

Ha. Maybe AI can fix the damn AllOn problem!

The All On problem is an Insteon protocol command. That command has been deleted from Insteon devices a while ago. Sorry, I don't have a date, but I believe that it's more than a year. Older devices can still respond to that command, newer devices cannot. No one has yet pinpointed how the command gets produced, but it seems restricted to an ISY Insteon network only.

I have several Google Home devices as well as two Alexa wands, linked to my (40+) Zwave devices through ISY Portal. I mostly use Google Home and it generally works well but it is a learning process. I don't know whether my European accent plays a role, but I have found out that "Switch On" works better than "Turn On",  but "Turn Off" works better than "Switch Off".....

When it comes to names, one of my Sons' name is Eli pronounced like 'Aylee'. As such I used 'Aylee' to set the Spokens for his room.

Sometimes I have to repeat commands several times and maybe we set our expectations too high with new technologies.

I have several Google Home devices as well as two Alexa wands, linked to my (40+) Zwave devices through ISY Portal. I mostly use Google Home and it generally works well but it is a learning process. I don't know whether my European accent plays a role, but I have found out that "Switch On" works better than "Turn On",  but "Turn Off" works better than "Switch Off".....

When it comes to names, one of my Sons' name is Eli pronounced like 'Aylee'. As such I used 'Aylee' to set the Spokens for his room.

Sometimes I have to repeat commands several times and maybe we set our expectations too high with new technologies.

Interesting! "Switch On/Off" works perfectly for Echo Dots also. It seems like only On/Off count here as "Switch" was never mentioned before.

 

Maybe it is reading ISY's mind?

So far I have to say I am very happy with how things are working. Most issues are easy to work around.

I have this problem...

 

In my Kitchen I have three lights...

Kitchen Light

Kitchen Counter

Kitchen Table

 

If I say "Hey Google, turn on Kitchen Light", then it turns on all three lights in the room.  It has nothing to do with the room I assigned to in Google Home app "Kitchen". To work around this I have to come up with a different name for my "Kitchen Light" and instead I renamed spoken to "Kitchen Ceiling" and this differentiates it properly. I also do this with other rooms like master bedroom and family room. 

 

Seems like Google uses the word "light" as generic so it is best not to have any spokens use the word "light" in it.

Edited December 4, 20177 yr by brians