I say a new skill name and Alexa hears it as the old skill name.

[fogyreef]

Using Smartthings I set up several switches throughout the house. All worked well. To streamline the names I changed "The Family Room Light" to "Family Light", but when I dropped and recreated the Smartthings skill, reran discovery and ask her to turn on "Family Light" she says "Sorry, I can't find a device named "The Family Room Light" in your account".  Well, that's because I shortened the name. How do I get Alexa to differentiate "Family Light" from "The Family Room Light"?

[DParker]

The first thing I'd do is to check your SmartThings app and make sure Alexa is authorized to access the device under the new name.

[fogyreef]

In Smartthings Alexa shows all the correct names, and discovery successfully finds the right number of devices. The new devices I set up work. The two older devices I changed names on don't any more. I think her voice pattern recognition is conflating the similar sounding names. If I reset will she relearn?

[fogyreef]

After talking to tech support I renamed the troublesome devices to "Kitchen" and "Family Room", removing "Light" from the names altogether. Tech support mentioned "Light" as being problematic in the name sometimes. All's well now.