I replaced a few wall switches.
Cheapest way to control lights with alexa.
By replacing your existing lighting with new smart bulbs you can control them with either your smart phone or through alexa voice commands such as alexa turn off the lights.
You can get started with just a few smart light bulbs a smart light hub and your phone.
Smart lights are a nice jumping off point for someone curious about smart home tech.
Works great with alexa.
Being able to control.
However even the cheapest wi fi bulbs can be expensive so if you don t want to splash out on new lights you can instead buy smart switches that are compatible with alexa.
That is exactly why you need to create light groups in the alexa app.
I have around 10 different lights now set up with scenes.
You can add on easily and cheaply.
Launch the alexa app on your iphone or ipad.
You can easily combine lights such as lamp 1 and lamp 2 into a group called lamps to control both lights with one voice command.
Tap on the plus symbol at the top right of the screen tap on add group at the bottom of the screen.
Who doesn t want to be able to control their lights with their voice.
Most of the time you want to control the group of lights instead of each light individually.
Hub 2 dimmable switches.
Scenes are the best you can group lights and dimmer settings.