Family accounts? - Kitchen doesn't support that erro

[brockp]

My wife setup our alexa in our kitchen, I am setup as a family member and have my own account.  

I setup the alexa skill and I am able to create devices and they show up in my alexa app.

 

Now on the echo show that's my wife's most of them work, but some like 'kitchen lights' Scene the Show says 'Kitchen doesn't support that'

When I do it from the Alexa app on my phone it works just fine.  Why would this be?

 

Also often when I test on the show it says "it looks like you are trying to control this from another household account do you want me to ...(I forget and cannot trigger now)"  Any idea what that is?

[brockp]

Ok I found about profiles and it looks like Alexa is kinda dumb about shared devices like echo's.

If I say switch profiles it switches to me and now works and it stops prompting for that 'other household' stuff.

 

Is the right way to do this to remove all the skills form my alxis account and re-do them all against my wife?

[larryllix]

Ok I found about profiles and it looks like Alexa is kinda dumb about shared devices like echo's.
If I say switch profiles it switches to me and now works and it stops prompting for that 'other household' stuff.
 
Is the right way to do this to remove all the skills form my alxis account and re-do them all against my wife?

I don't know the purpose of having two account would be but ours asked us about each voice a few years ago. Now it recognises each of our voices just to act personal. I do not see any purpose for it.

After many years usi g ten Alexa boxes I thought I would try asdigning devices to room groups as they constantly pestered me to do. For already named devices that is a mistake as a device named 'kitchen lights' and a room named 'kitchen' totally confuses Alexa and I get back that 'kitchen doesn't support that'
or
'there is no such device named kitchen'



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