Amazon Echo / Alexa app

[jetsetter]

Hi
1. Alexa has only one way communication at the moment. You can only ask her to do something.
2. I have in my office two set of lights and I called them 'Office one' and 'Office two' In 90% she do recognize me correctly. In rare cases she do ask which one do I want? This is nothing to do with our implementation. You can check in alexa app what words did she pick up. You can help her this way to understand you better as you can tell her if it was correct or not.
Description is only for you. Alexa is ignoring it.
3. This is known bug :

Amazon recently announced range of new possibilities Read here
We are in process of complete rewrite of current app as they changed whole approach to the devices.  We are nearly finished and will publish soon.  This is why we didn't fix this bug as new app is on its way.

BR
Daniel

Thank you for the feedback and the amazing news about the upcoming app update Daniel!
Per above point:

1. From what I understood from the new possibilities link you send me, their new API now supports "Proactive State Updates" which means that AT LAST we will be able to ask for a light status! Please tell me that this will be included in the upcoming app update that you will publish soon??
   
2. I see from other Alexa enabled devices like Philips Hue, that they don't have such kind of long device name issues... Is there any chance that maybe you are using a slight different api implementation that could potentially causing this issue?
   
3. No problem! Looking forward the new app version!
   

Regarding new features, I was desperately looking for a way to make Alexa announce something without been asked first (like, "Doorbell is ringing" or "Someone is at the door"), I saw that many people was asking for the same thing, so eventually, Amazon announced a new "push notifications" Alexa capability! Will this feature included in your new app?? I also saw here that there is also a workaround for direct announcements without have to ask Alexa what are your notifications!!

Thank you again.

BR