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.

You could call a program that sends an sms notification or use network resource to pushbullet or the like.

You could also do this using IF channel but IFTTT is slow.

 

I'm not real sure though how you want the notification?

 

 

Jon...

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.

Alexa doesn't support push notifications at this time but possibly in the future.

The only response you can get right now is OK 

 

 

Jon...