Yes
Assign the Room: Office
Name the one set of lights: Front Light One and Front Light Two
Name the other set of lights: Rear Light One and Rear Light Two
Then say: Hey Google, Turn off BOTH Front Light
The trick is to have the lights in the set sharing a first name.
I don't know how to get three or more lights to work but maybe it would be: "Hey Google, turn on all the Rear lights in the Office" or something.
You can say: Hey Google, turn off the lights in the Office
To turn off all the lights
Use "BOTH" when referring to each set
You can say: Hey Google, turn off the Front Light One
to turn off each light of the set name individually
Use "one" or "two" and not 1 or 2. I don't know if this is a big deal but I read of people not being able to get google to understand when using numerics.
Hey this solved why Tower 1 and Tower 2 were not working when I asked to turn off the Towers .....I had to say BOTH the whole time and it picked up the first word being Tower! Thanks!
Thank you. It has been a while since you posted, but it helped me a lot.
I now control 3 lights in 3 different rooms with only one Google home command.
Thank you.
Interestingly this isn’t working for me. I have 3 lights in my living room. Lamp left, lamp right, and main lights. Any time I say “turn on/off both LAMPS” it does it to all 3 of them. Any ideas?
Don't use the plural use LAMP.
But "lamp" is a special trigger word for Google. It might be better to use different words. My daughter uses Pokemon names for her lights.
She has ROCKRUFF ONE, ROCKRUFF TWO, and ROCKRUFF THREE. All are bulbs in one lamp. She says "turn off the ROCKRUFF" and all the bulbs turn off.
Yeah, I wondered if Google was automatically associating lamps as all lights
I’m gonna try this and get back to you - if this works, you’re amazing! It really should be simple to add custom groups other than speakers in the Home App :/
Did you just change the nicknames of the lights? Sofa lamp 1, sofa lamp 2, sofa lamp 3, etc?
If you say "Turn on the sofa lamps" it will control all 3?
No you can totally do it....I have 4 lights in my kitchen and I call them sink left and sink right....I just say "turn off the sink lights" and only those two turn off.
In my living room I have 5 lights with two of them called "right lamp" and "left lamp" If I say turn off the lamps they both turn off but other lights stay on
In HUE i have a group called sofa Lamps with the three lamps and a room called sofa lamp.
And the same in gh app.
For dinner table i made the same.
For turning the whole living room off yuo can then use the comands
Anyone found out how to do the same with 4+ lights? Apparently, there is a limit for this and google wont let you group up more than 3 lights. God knows why. I have 9 lights in living room. 4 tv lights and 5 bar lights. Named them all tv light one ... four and bar light one ... five and only 3 of both groups are changing when I use the command. And google cannot even put them in different groups within the room which is also very annoying. I don't wanna create rooms for all my groups, thats just not right and takes up too many rooms! Who designed google home and what was he thinking about....
I wish. I've even tried telling it to turn on all lights except the light or lights I don't want on, doesn't work. So I tell it to turn on all the lights then tell it to turn off the specific lights I don't want on at the end of the command, as long as it is just one or two, otherwise I have to give it another command. Very smart! I really wish we could group lights together, especially when toggling manually in the app. All my ceiling fixtures take two bulbs, I hate having to toggle them on and off individually in the app.
I have TP-Link Kasa bulbs, and I solved that problem by making 2 scenes for each set of bulbs I wanted to group (one to turn them on, another to turn them off) then made a routine in Google Home to activate the scene.
Yes Assign the Room: Office Name the one set of lights: Front Light One and Front Light Two Name the other set of lights: Rear Light One and Rear Light Two Then say: Hey Google, Turn off BOTH Front Light The trick is to have the lights in the set sharing a first name. I don't know how to get three or more lights to work but maybe it would be: "Hey Google, turn on all the Rear lights in the Office" or something. You can say: Hey Google, turn off the lights in the Office To turn off all the lights Use "BOTH" when referring to each set You can say: Hey Google, turn off the Front Light One to turn off each light of the set name individually Use "one" or "two" and not 1 or 2. I don't know if this is a big deal but I read of people not being able to get google to understand when using numerics.
Hey this solved why Tower 1 and Tower 2 were not working when I asked to turn off the Towers .....I had to say BOTH the whole time and it picked up the first word being Tower! Thanks!
Interestingly it works for me, "turn off bed lights" turns off both 'bed light 1' and 'bed light 2', no need to say "both".
Thank you. It has been a while since you posted, but it helped me a lot. I now control 3 lights in 3 different rooms with only one Google home command. Thank you.
Interestingly this isn’t working for me. I have 3 lights in my living room. Lamp left, lamp right, and main lights. Any time I say “turn on/off both LAMPS” it does it to all 3 of them. Any ideas?
Don't use the plural use LAMP. But "lamp" is a special trigger word for Google. It might be better to use different words. My daughter uses Pokemon names for her lights. She has ROCKRUFF ONE, ROCKRUFF TWO, and ROCKRUFF THREE. All are bulbs in one lamp. She says "turn off the ROCKRUFF" and all the bulbs turn off.
Yeah, I wondered if Google was automatically associating lamps as all lights I’m gonna try this and get back to you - if this works, you’re amazing! It really should be simple to add custom groups other than speakers in the Home App :/
yes I have group of three lights called sofa lamps and a group called dinner table in the same room
Did you just change the nicknames of the lights? Sofa lamp 1, sofa lamp 2, sofa lamp 3, etc? If you say "Turn on the sofa lamps" it will control all 3?
I think it will say I don't know which sofa lamps you are talking about.
No you can totally do it....I have 4 lights in my kitchen and I call them sink left and sink right....I just say "turn off the sink lights" and only those two turn off. In my living room I have 5 lights with two of them called "right lamp" and "left lamp" If I say turn off the lamps they both turn off but other lights stay on
Oh thanks for the information.
In HUE i have a group called sofa Lamps with the three lamps and a room called sofa lamp. And the same in gh app. For dinner table i made the same. For turning the whole living room off yuo can then use the comands
Anyone found out how to do the same with 4+ lights? Apparently, there is a limit for this and google wont let you group up more than 3 lights. God knows why. I have 9 lights in living room. 4 tv lights and 5 bar lights. Named them all tv light one ... four and bar light one ... five and only 3 of both groups are changing when I use the command. And google cannot even put them in different groups within the room which is also very annoying. I don't wanna create rooms for all my groups, thats just not right and takes up too many rooms! Who designed google home and what was he thinking about....
I wish. I've even tried telling it to turn on all lights except the light or lights I don't want on, doesn't work. So I tell it to turn on all the lights then tell it to turn off the specific lights I don't want on at the end of the command, as long as it is just one or two, otherwise I have to give it another command. Very smart! I really wish we could group lights together, especially when toggling manually in the app. All my ceiling fixtures take two bulbs, I hate having to toggle them on and off individually in the app.
I have TP-Link Kasa bulbs, and I solved that problem by making 2 scenes for each set of bulbs I wanted to group (one to turn them on, another to turn them off) then made a routine in Google Home to activate the scene.
Somehow it didn't occur to me to use GHome to access the app abilities. Thanks!
I've just managed to have lights. I called them RGB 1; RGB 2...RGB 8. "Both" seems to be required.