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Should there be a new thread started for the Alexa skill ? I too was a little puzzled over the email address being case sensitive when setting up the portal btw. Congrats and a big THANK YOU for the Alex skill.

WooooHoooo! Just bought my portal account. Linked to my Echo. My setup is very small only 2 devices but it works ok for me. Will help test any way I can though.

"Amazon, when will you make an end?" Search movie quotes if you aren't familiar with this one. It's more than disappointing that they change the game midstream. I can see why they would want a unit to test for certification, but... Hopefully the skill will come soon. Update much appreciated. God grant me patience, and I want it NOW!

Hopefully that will be soon.Will be happy dance time. Thanks for the update!

I think we should do like Best Buy shoppers before Black Friday. Get a group together to camp out in tents in front of the door to Amazon HQ.

I think this could be done now if you built your own website/portal that's called by your own skill. You say "Alexa, tell my skill I am home". Alexa passes "I am home" to the portal. Your portal runs a program on the ISY, then passes a text back to Alexa with what it did. I've been playing with the sample with the Alexa SDK. I already know what Alexa does with bad words. "beep". For any Ohio State fans I'm going to have her respond to Alexa tell Buckeye "O H" Greg

If you are wanting to use PowerShell here is an example. http://www.sytone.com/2014/10/home-automation-with-isy-and-powershell/

I put a Togglelinc on my kitchen lights yesterday just so I can say "Alexa turn on the kitchen lights "

Looking forward to the Echo support! I took the ISY plunge for the Echo support and bought the Echo because of the ISY support. I really think this is a game changer for HA. All Echo needs now is a skill "Alexa send a 6 pack to Michel and Benoit."