Label entities for Alexa recommendations

@jriker1 wrote:

So I have three light switches in the basement that are Z-Wave. Want to figure out how to name them or get opinions to make things easy for my family. What I have:

1. Main light switch at the top of the stars which turns on the light at the top of the stairs and all the cans in the main basement.
2. A light switch in the basement that turns on a light over the sink down there.
3. A light switch that turns on the lights in the crawl space.

I want to do two things:

1. Be able to control each light individually by voice.
2. Be able to turn them all on and off by voice

So was thinking for the all lights would create a group in HA called All Basement Lights which I would think you could then say “Alexa turn on all basement lights” and it would work?

But what is a good name for each individual light and is it the node name or the entity name or something else? Using the Alexa integration and not sure what it will pull in.

Right now my entities are called thinking those are what is pulled into Alexa:

Light Switch Main Basement Switch
Light Switch Basement Sink Switch
Light Switch Basement Crawl Space Switch

The above are the override entity names. Again the Alexa integration not sure what it pulls as I have it working and this will be the first item I’m actually paying attention to with Alexa right now.

Also if I want to limit just to these items and the one group so every group and entity doesn’t get blasted into Alexa’s interface how would I do that? Was reading the filter but couldn’t tell if one would be a HA group and how a domain worked. Plus if I have include_entities will more things than those come in because the example shows in the same examples include_entities and exclude_entities.

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