Alexa voice profiles

[bw23198]

I was recently looking through some of the options on my Alexa mobile app.  I noticed under settings that there's a place to create voice profiles.  It looks like these can be used for Alexa calling and messaging along with voice shopping.  This got me wondering...Is it possible to create voice profiles to use with smarthome devices?  In other words, can I ask Alexa to "turn on my bedroom light" and have the service turn on the bedroom light associated with my voice profile?  Of course this would be different than my daughter asking Alexa to turn on her "my bedroom light".  

-Brian

[stusviews]

Were you able to confirm that it worked?

[bw23198]

Are you asking me if I was able to get voice profiles to work in general (for shopping or messaging)?  If so I haven't tried that yet.

-Brian

[stusviews]

No, I'm asking about the specific question you posed about the bedroom light. Actually trying it may give you an answer.

[bw23198]

I looked at this briefly last night.  I don't think voice profiles work this way.  For starters it looks like if you want a user to have a voice profile, that user needs an Amazon account.  This rules out my use case where I wanted my kids to be able to have their own voice profiles to control their lights (and I don't want them to have Amazon accounts).  

-Brian

[Goose66]

The only thing I have seen voice profiles actually work for is music and messaging. 

Coming at it from the other direction, I don't see anything in the Alexa mobile app, website, or Smart Home Skill developers documentation that suggests that discovered devices, scenes, groups, or routines can be tied to a user profile on a device containing multiple user profiles. There seems to be a primary account required for each Echo or Alexa device, and that is the one that works with the Smart Home Skill aspects of the device. However, you could use different accounts for each Echo device to accomplish what you are asking for, but you would also need multiple ISY portal accounts as well.

There's also the "implicit targeting" feature where you can put lighting devices and an Echo in a group, and then if you say "Alexa, turn off the lights" it will turn off all light devices in the group. You could have a group per room.

[bw23198]

Ah, I think that will do what I want to do!  I tried this tonight and noticed the Alexa group only turned off the lights (and not the ISY scenes) in the Alexa group.  But, I think if I change the ISY scenes in the Alexa group from scenes to lights I think that should do the trick (according to this posting: ) 

It's hard to keep up with all the changes/enhancements to this Alexa craze.