How To Program Alexa To Turn On Lights At A Certain Time

Fade is a feature that can slowly turn your lights on over the course of five minutes to 30 minutes.

How to program alexa to turn on lights at a certain time. Right underneath that you can also select certain days of the week by tapping on one to select it. You can also just leave it at instant to have your lights turn on normally. Now your new light group will be available as a tile directly from the devices tab of the alexa app and you can ask alexa to turn on the lounge or whatever you decided to name your new group. Alexa can turn the lights on at the start of your routine and play.

If your routine includes music you can instruct alexa to turn it off after a certain time. This very simple routine will now automatically turn on your bedroom light when you say alexa good morning and then one hour later the lights will automatically turn off. For example you could say alexa check my timers or just alexa timers and alexa will list off the remaining time on each of your timers. With inexpensive hardware you can get alexa to turn individual or groups of lights on and off and by using routines you can make them turn on automatically at set times.

Our top equipment picks. For this routine you ll want to make sure you ve enabled the action that lets alexa turn off your lights. You can ask alexa to tell you the status of all the active timers currently going. You can get the status of a specific timer by specifying the timer s name.

You can easily add other devices and actions to this routine like getting a weather report or turning on your coffee machine. Next tap the where option. Routines aren t limited to turning devices on or off though. Scheduled routines allow you to set reoccurring scenes that span all devices supported by alexa such as turning on lights from multiple manufacturers at a specific time each day and playing music at certain times or with certain routines.

If you typically have a hard time falling asleep use the music action to play rain. The perfect pairing for your smart home lighting setup using alexa is an echo speaker and lifx smart lights. Then when you want to turn off the lights tell echo to turn on the timer and when the timer automatically shuts itself off the other lights will shut themselves off too.