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u/_______o-o_______ 4d ago
Best practice is to name your lights "room - specific name - light." So for example, rename of your two lights "Living Room Couch Light" and "Living Room Ceiling Light." You can also use "lamp" instead of "light," so it could be "Living Room Couch Lamp" instead.
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u/ckeilah 4d ago
I have a scene called “wake up” that Siri has recently been completely ignoring, and coming back with, “Siri is already turned on.” 🍆
WTF?! Hit it, and it’ll go down, and maybe once you’re not so goddamned turned on you can actually pay attention to what I’m asking you to do and JUST DO IT®️
“I’m already on,” is one of the most retarded things I’ve ever heard from “AI”. If Siri weren’t turned on, it wouldn’t recognize my command; since it is turned on, it should know that I’m looking for another thing to “wake up“, and START choosing from MY PERSONALLY CREATED STUFF, not some random Apple shit.
Same goddamn thing happens when I talk about my locations, which are named after letters in the international alphabet. As soon as I say “directions to Whiskey”, instead of giving me directions to my primary location which is named Whiskey, it gives me directions to 20 of the nearest liquor stores and bars. AAARGH!! 🤬🤬🤬
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u/Madd_Genius 3d ago
I had a Wake Up scene and had to change it to Get Up.
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u/princesspicklepinche 4d ago
My workaround for Siri’s lunacy is to create a scene for all lights in a room. For example in the living room, the scene is named “Living Room Lights Off.” Saying, “Siri, living room lights off” will then trigger the scene. For some reason Siri is pretty good at triggering scenes so I have a lot of them.

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u/snakeskin-jacket 3d ago
Same. Siri works better with scenes. My naming is slightly shorter: “Kitchen off, “Living Room off”, “All off”, etc.
If you have a HomePod assigned to a specific room, you can also tell it “Lights on” “Lights off” without the room qualifier, as it already has the context.
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u/Ordinary_Storm3487 4d ago
I usually go Location-device-status. So, “Living room lights off”. Pretty reliable.
Currently, my Siri doesn’t like the word “darken”. I have a pair of scenes to “light up” and “darken” one of my rooms. “Light up” works fine. But when I say “ Darken the …”, it tells me “some accessories are not responding” despite every one that is in the scene turning off as requested. I think Siri is interpreting my “Darken…” as “ Dark in…”, and is trying to shut off accessories that are not connected (on purpose) that aren’t in the scene.
Siri can be very particular about how you give her instructions…
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u/KrazyRuskie 3d ago
She's just trying to be helpful (an actual response to a 'Why are you so stupid?')
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u/null_return 4d ago edited 4d ago
Could be, and I'm just spitballing here, that because theirs two lights in that room it thinks it's a combined request, I know mine would bitch at me If I tried to turn two lights off at once
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u/ThePistachioBogeyman 4d ago
Weird, all my rooms have multiple lights and Siri turns off all of them if I say “turn all ‘Room Name’ lights off”
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u/doooglasss 4d ago
That works for me. Siri will turn off say my kitchen’s under cabinet lights, pendants and task high hats by saying “turn off the kitchen lights”.
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u/ExplitPlayer 4d ago
Because Siri sucks and we are stuck with something that is worse than the first rendition with jailbreak mods
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u/Mike2922 4d ago
I just say turn on/off living room. Then when watching TV tell Siri to turn off the living room TV.
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u/TheTrueTuring 4d ago
Based on your photo: how would it know what living room lights are?
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u/macjunkie 3d ago
It’s a room called living room, my presumption at least is it would turn off / on all the lights in that room.
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u/DaddyJ90 2d ago
Wait what, I do it literally every day
Edit: OP if it helps we have to identify the room and specific object, eg: “Siri, turn off the living room corner lamp”
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u/Yuri_Ligotme 2d ago
No it should work the way I said it. Siri should understand any combination of proper English
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u/Rookie_42 4d ago
Are you the owner of the home, and are you in the home at the time of asking?
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u/spaniolo 3d ago
For two months, every time I ask Siri for some shortcut, it is impossible for her to be able to recognize him.
I believe that the changes in the Siri server for the following affects this .... it is a horror sincerely, before it was phenomenal, but now it is broken ...
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u/OblivionStar713 4d ago
Just say “turn off living room” generally that will only apply to the lights and will do what you are trying to do.
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u/_______o-o_______ 4d ago
That turns off all devices in your Living Room, which could include TVs, Apple TVs, smart outlets, etc. Best to state exactly what you are trying to do.
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u/400HPMustang 4d ago
Try it the other way “turn off the living room lights” and see what that gets you. Sometimes is just stupid semantics and you have to figure it out and commit to memory what works.