My use of "Squeezebox" ahead of each device name was intended to allow
Alexa to differentiate these units from Hue lights and iDevices switches
and sockets in some of the same locations -- said devices now operated
with location-based names set up in Alexa.

If the term "Squeezebox" will be used to activate these devices, then it
can safely be removed from each of my named units to avoid an awkward
redundancy.  Easy enough for me to do, -and I will do that-. 

The word "Squeezebox" seems a good choice for skill invocation, btw --
it is clearly unique and I would guess unlikely to trigger anything else
accidentally.

meep wrote: 
> 
> 
> Interested in your device naming - is the word 'squeezebox' actually
> included in the device name?
> 
> I ask because there's a discussion at the moment as to what the skill
> invocation name should be. Right now it's 'Alexa, ask squeeze box
> to....'. Now, this is a bit clunky and even more so if the sentence
> needs to be 'Alexa, ask Squeeze Box to pause Squeezebox Classic'. Not
> only is this repetitive, but it's actually against Amazon
> recommendations to re-use the invocation name later in the command
> string. 
> 
> I'm hunting for the best invocation name. Someone suggested 'Alexa, ask
> Slim Server to....' as an option and echo of the squeezebox past.
> 
> All input on this appreciated.


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