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Available now. No mention of ISY. https://www.brilliant.tech/pages/works-with

I managed to re-add the program from scratch, went through the entire process again and am able to use a program to control the garage door. This is fine, but the "ask izzy" part of the skill is annoying. I'd rather just ask Alexa than ask Alexa to ask her friends daughters sisters cousin to do something for me.

If they're z-wave they have a device-category of "lock". Look in your ISY portal under your Echo config and look at the category column. I'm GUESSING that's how it determines it.

Yeah, MWareman -- I kept trying to do a discover and it kept not showing up. No error, no nothing. Just simply didn't work. I'm guessing type "lock" is not allowed. If it's amazon that's the culprit then I can take it to them, but either way, it should be configurable. Make it opt-in with a big fat warning for those who might not understand the implications. But it should be up to the end user how and where they use their supported devices. </gripe>

Yeah, I get the "I'm not quite sure how to help you with that."

Apologies if this is a duplicate topic -- I actually did look to see if it had been addressed. It's become apparent to me that ISY portal won't allow Echo to discover secured devices. Specifically, I'm trying to get alexa to work with a GD00Z garage door controller. While I understand the reason for this, in my particular application the security is not required and Echo integration is. I came across documentation which allowed it via a program with the commands of "off" and "on", which is hardly intuitive, "open" and "close" would obviously be preferred. I also came across instructions to do it with a skill, which did NOT work -- Alexa responded with "Unable to turn on lock". Where specifically is this decision being made? Is it an ISY function to not share that device? Is it the ISY portal? Is it the Echo Portal deciding not to retrieve such a device? Is there any way to disable this security "feature?" -Ray