Manage Devices in the Management Console

Before you can manage Alexa devices and smart devices, you must first associate them with rooms. After you set up your Alexa devices, you can use the Alexa Smart Properties management console to associate them with rooms. You can also discover smart devices and add them to rooms.

The console is available in the CA, DE, ES, FR, IT, UK, and US marketplaces at the following links:

Manage devices

View Alexa device information

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to the Echo Devices page for your property.
  2. The console displays a list of your account's registered Alexa devices, with the following information:
    • Device Serial Number – The serial number of the Alexa device.
    • Device Name – The name of the Alexa device, if the device has a name.
    • Device Type – The type of Alexa device (for example, Amazon Echo Dot).
    • Room Name – The room name, if you've associated the Alexa device with a room.
    • Availability – The availability status of the Alexa device.
      • Online – The device is connected to the network.
      • Offline – The device isn't connected to the network. For example, the device is unplugged, or the network isn't available.
    • MAC address – The media access control (MAC) address used to identify a device on a wireless network.
    • Software Version – The last software update applied to the device. Latest software version numbers can be found on the Amazon Help & Customer Service portal.
  3. To see a list of Alexa devices registered to your account that are available to associate with a room, choose Associate Devices.

Assign Alexa devices to rooms

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to the Echo Devices page for your property.
  2. Choose the Associate Devices button.
  3. From the Echo Devices list, choose the devices to assign.
  4. For each device, choose a room to associate it with.
  5. Choose Submit.
  6. Use the status bar at top of the page to track the progress of the operation.

Move Alexa devices to different rooms

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to the Echo Devices page for your property.
  2. From the Echo Devices list, choose the devices to move.
  3. From the Actions drop-down menu, choose Move to different room.
  4. For each device, choose the new room to associate it with.
  5. Choose Submit.
  6. Use the status bar at top of the page to track the progress of the operation.

Disassociate Alexa devices from rooms

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to the Echo Devices page.
  2. From the Echo Devices list, choose the devices to unassign.
  3. In the Device Details page, choose Disassociate from room.
  4. Choose Submit.
  5. Use the status bar at top of the page to track the progress of the operation.

Change a device's friendly name

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to the Echo Devices page.
  2. From the Echo Devices list, choose the device to rename.
  3. In the Device Details page, choose Rename.
  4. Enter a new friendly name for the device.
  5. Choose Submit.

Deregister devices

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to the Echo Devices page.
  2. From the Echo Devices list, choose the devices to deregister.
  3. From the Actions menu, choose the Deregister.

Discover smart devices for a room

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to your Properties page.
  2. In the list of properties, choose the property.
  3. Navigate to the Rooms page for the property.
  4. From the Rooms list, choose the room.
  5. In the Room settings page, navigate to the Skills section
  6. Choose the Enabled Skills tab.
  7. Locate the smart home skill that corresponds to the smart devices you want to discover.
  8. To begin device discovery, choose Discover Devices.

  9. Wait for the discovery process to complete. This can take up to a minute.

    The console displays the list of smart devices that Alexa Smart Properties has discovered and associated with the room. The discovered smart devices also appear in the Smart Home Devices tab on the Room settings page.

Remove smart devices from a room

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to the Echo Devices page.
  2. Choose the Smart Home Devices tab.
  3. Choose the smart devices to remove.
  4. Choose Forget.

Manage device groups

You can create a device group for a room and add Alexa devices and smart devices to the group. This lets a guest control devices as a logical unit. For example, by saying "Alexa, turn off Kitchen," where "Kitchen" is a device group containing two smart lights and one smart plug, a guest can turn off all three devices at the same time. Only devices that you've associated with the same room can be part of a device group. A device can only belong to one device group at a given time.

Create a device group for a room

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to your Properties page.
  2. In the list of properties, choose the property.
  3. Navigate to the Rooms page for the property.
  4. From the Rooms list, choose the room.
  5. In the Room settings page, choose the Groups tab.
  6. Choose Create a New Group.
  7. In the Create device group dialog box, specify the settings as follows:
    1. In the Name field, enter a unique name for the device group.
    2. From the Devices list, choose the devices to be added.
  8. Choose Create.
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Last updated: Nov 28, 2023