Update: I just discovered that I can say “Ziggy, Start Wyze Robot Vacuum” to which it replies “Welcome to Wyze Robot Vacuum, you can ask the vacuum to start cleaning or stop cleaning” and then prompts for a response. I then say “Clean Kitchen” or “Stop Cleaning”. What if you changed the utterance to just “Wyze”? At this point it’s assumed you are only referencing the vac so maybe not necessary to say “wye robot vac”, perhaps just “wyze”. While the skill is only currently used for the vac, that gives you the ability to leverage the same skill for other devices all of which would fall under the Wyze utterance…?
Tell was more natural for me vs. ask
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Thanks! That’s an interesting limitation. I will submit a feedback request to Amazon. From a smart home gadget perspective, robot vacs would seem to a be a strong use case for a home skill as this feature has become standard for nearly all newly released vacs. My Deebot vac worked much the same as you have mentioned and I looked up a few other brands on amazon and it looks like they are all using custom skills where the user has to ask the skill to perform an action.
One thing to consider… I believe Amazon provides a workaround for name free utterances… I’m not a developer / sure if it would work here but here is a link I found online. I think adding this would make for a pretty solid user experience. Thank you so much for your engagement!
One other thing or question… I have a Camera named Rover and the Vacuum is named Grover. When I tell Alexa to Ask Grover to Clean, it says Rover does not support that action. Is there anything that can be done with this or do I need to rename the Vacuum or the Camera?
I was reading through these posts and @R.Good posted this:
Which may imply that it can clean multiple rooms by using and to separate each room. @R.Good , is this the case?
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Thank you for your suggestion. The challenge is other Wyze smart home devices are using native Alexa smart home skill. We use custom skill because Alexa smart home skill have not added the robot vacuum. I think a good solution is to use the native Alexa smart home skill once Alexa adds robot vacuum products into it.
I totally agree with you. Robot vacs should be added into the standard Alexa smart home skill. Thank you for the link and we will look into it!
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I think it should not conflicted because you will need to say ‘Alexa, ask Wyze robot vacuum to clean (with Grover)’ to trigger the robot vacuum skill.
Ahhh – I was trying to say Alexa ask Grover to clean xxxxx. After reading in the forum, the key words are Wyze Robot Vacuum… 
Thanks
@spamoni thanks for sharing. I just performed the following:
Me: “Ziggy, Start Wyze Robot Vacuum”
Echo: “Welcome to wyze robot vacuum, you can ask me to…”
Me: “Clean Bedroom AND Living Room”
Echo: Frenchie is starting to clean bedroom, living room"
Summary: Asking it to clean two rooms by saying “AND” between the name of the two rooms (“Clean bedroom and living room”) works. My vacuum successfully cleaned the bedroom and then the living room before returning to charge. #soawesome
Issue: Response is missing ‘and’ to separate rooms when confirming the action. “Frenchie is starting to clean your office, kitchen”. Should be “bedroom and living room”. #notabigdeal
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Yes, I was able to execute a 2 room cleaning. I did not attempt any more than 2.
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Yep AND was the key for me when I went back a looked at the command in the Alexa history when I said
Alexa, Ask Wyze Robot to clean Room 7, Room 8.
It showed as me saying Ask Wyze Robot to clean Roommate.
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So I just had my vac running from a voice command I’d executed forgetting that I have a recurring schedule in the wyze app that begins at 10 PM daily. The good news is the vac continued with the initial command issued via voice to clean the kitchen and office. The scheduled cleaning was not executed. It would be really neat if it queued the schedule in the app and completed it immediately after the voice action but I don’t see this as a major issue. Just thought I’d share.
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Enabled app, but Alexa will not recognize any of my wyze devices.
Same
I know we are testing the Alexa function with our robot vacuum(s), but I have also noticed that my routines using the v2 entry sensors are no longing working. I have an entry sensor on my basement door and a routine in Alexa to turn on the smart bulbs in my basement when opened. This stopped working when I added the WYZE-beta to my Alexa service.
The loss of the Alexa-Wyze routines happens because the Beta skill creates a duplication of all your Wyze devices. In my case, I realized that in the Alexa “all devices” section all my Wyze devices were listed twice - the original device and the one just created by the Beta skill. I determined which one was operational and renamed it, then I updated my routine to reflect the new name and everything worked as before - no problems so far.
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@medinawm I was able to login to https://alexa.amazon.com and click on smart home and then devices. If you short by newest, all of the duplicated devices should be shown at the top of the list. I removed them all and now all of my original routines and utterances work. It’s been 24 hours+ and they haven’t reappeared.
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Relink Alexa in the app. For some reason, I had this issue and the link was removed.
Yeah I figured it had to do with the duplication. I even created new routines with what I thought was the “newer” devices. I’ll verify which one is working and try again to see if I can get them working again. Thank you.