Trying to control my rudimentary smart-home setup is a different story. I have three Philips Hue bulbs in lamps around my home, and Alexa can always understand when I ask her to turn them on. Anything more complicated than that is a crapshoot: Sometimes she’ll bring the brightness down to 50 percent, and sometimes she has no idea what I’m asking her. Same goes for leaving myself reminders. If I…