How to Create a Smart Home Group With Alexa

Once you have an Echo and smart home devices, creating a smart home group is easy. You can manage it all from the Alexa app on your mobile device. Once you create the smart home group, you can tell your Alexa device to turn on or off that group without needing to create any further commands. If you prefer, you can also control the group through the Alexa app on your mobile device.

How to Edit a Smart Home Group

Getting a new smart home device after you have created a smart home group doesn’t mean you have to leave that device out of your group. For example, if you get a new smart bulb after you’ve created a Living Room Group but you want to add that bulb to the group, you have a couple of options. You can add the device manually using steps that are similar to creating a group. You can also add a new device to the group using a voice command. Just say, “Alexa, add to .” Alexa will add the device to the group automatically.

How to Delete a Smart Home Group

If you acquire new devices or change the configuration of your smart home devices (for example, when you move into a new home), you may want to delete a smart home group and create a new one. Deleting an Echo group is as easy as creating one.