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Get current temperature from Venstar


rrehart

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I have a Venstar Thermostat connected to WiFi and a Venlink server setup on my Raspberry Pi. The ISY can read the Venlink just fine and update settings based on various programs. Great.

 

However, I would like to be able to query/present the "iVenstar_IndoorTemp" integer variable when I ask my echo, "Alexa, what is the current temp?". Since I can only use programs, scenes, and devices in the "Amazon Echo" tool in the ISY portal, I can't poll the variable directly.

 

I tried to setup a simple program with a "then" statement to just get the variable, but "query" is not an option for variables in the then statement.

I also tried to setup an IFTTT with Alexa/Maker (I can query via HTTP GET https://my.isy.io/isy/[key]/rest/vars/get/2/21),but that failed as well.

 

So, any ideas on how I can get the value of that variable to pop when I ask Alexa for the temp?

 

As always, thanks in advance.

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What I am after is to ask Alexa, "What is the current temperature in the house?" and for her to return "72 degrees" or something like that. I tried IFTTT with the "Alexa" "If" and the "Maker" then but nothing returned.

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