# \[APP\]\[Pro\] Alexa - Control your Amazon devices from Homey **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Created:** [January 31, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alexa-control-your-amazon-devices-from-homey/8356 "2019-01-31T08:04:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1999
**Author:** ![loy80y](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@loy80y](https://community.homey.app/u/loy80y)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alexa-control-your-amazon-devices-from-homey/8356/1999 "2025-01-17T14:10:26Z")
from what im reading online it appears you cant make an announcement to groups. it will announce to all amazon devices. i havent personally tried it. i wont be able to do a quick test now as its nearly 1am here. I’ll probably wake up everyone in the house if it goes to all amazon devices. i originally did set mine up it go to multiple amazon speakers. i knew that there will be delay or an issue where it wont go to all speakers. so i made it so that if there was motion in that room it will send that announcement to that speaker in the room. then i had 2 speakers inside the house (upstairs hallway and downstairs hallway) primarily making those announcements that i considered to be more important. thinking about it again alternatively you could set up a flow card to trigger a routine. then set up the routine to send an announcement to to those specific amazon devices. i think that would be the only way you can make the annoucements happen at the same time. you probably would expect a slight delay since your coming from homey to then ask amazon to run a routine and then wait for that routine to trigger. may not be ideal if you were trying to set this all up in homey but i dont think you will be able to get around it. i personally havent tried the other amazon/alexa homey app. i did look around there and asked about sending announcements to multiple devices. someone did also mention that they trigger a routine also. i havent had the time to test the other app out but i suspect it will be similar to this one as the developer did mention its using the same package as Jamie’s amazon alexa homey app. the only difference at the time of the response is that staeff mentioned that this app is using an older package. > [@\[APP\]\[Pro\] Amazon Echo - Looking for testers and contributors](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-looking-for-testers-and-contributors/120365/69): > > Maybe to clarify some things, I’m using the alexa-remote2 package (same as the other Alexa app) for all interactions with the alexa api, so if a feature is not supported by this package then it won’t be supported by my app. The difference between the other Alexa app is that as far as I remember it uses a two year old version of the package so there might be a bunch stability improvements missing and that I use a more generic approach how to support devices. I need to check the package again but… i assume once jamie has the time a future update will be using a newer package. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alexa-control-your-amazon-devices-from-homey/8356)._