nandor Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 When I first setup my Alex / ISY I was able to say things like "Alexa open/close the garage". Since a few weeks ago (or so) I now have to use "Alex turn on/off the garage" to get echo to open / close the garage door - which sound silly. Any idea what changed or how I can get the original functionality back? Link to comment
Michel Kohanim Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Hi nandor, Amazon restricted the use of open for security reasons. They mentioned that they were going to come up with a more secure solution for locks and security systems. With kind regards, Michel Link to comment
James Peterson Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 When I first setup my Alex / ISY I was able to say things like "Alexa open/close the garage". Since a few weeks ago (or so) I now have to use "Alex turn on/off the garage" to get echo to open / close the garage door - which sound silly. Any idea what changed or how I can get the original functionality back? I was having this issue till I used the command "Alexa - tell izzy to open/close the garagedoor" instead of "Alexa open/close the garagedoor" "garagedoor = program for determine correct garagedoor status and action" Link to comment
DaveStLou Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 Can someone explain to me or point to the rationale for Amazon restricting the use of the word "open"? When the ISY Optimized for Smart Home updated to V2 I lost the capability to simply say "open garage door". Now I have to say "turn on garage door". Why is it safer to turn on a garage door than to open a garage door? Link to comment
stusviews Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 Interesting. I added our GDO yesterday and used open/close. I just read your post and tried. Open/close works!!! edit: Maybe 'door' is a problem. I didn't use that word. Link to comment
DaveStLou Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 Hi nandor, Amazon restricted the use of open for security reasons. They mentioned that they were going to come up with a more secure solution for locks and security systems. With kind regards, Michel Interesting. I added our GDO yesterday and used open/close. I just read your post and tried. Open/close works!!! edit: Maybe 'door' is a problem. I didn't use that word. I was hopeful when I saw your post, stusviews, so I changed the "Spoken" word in ISY portal, removed all discovered devices in Alexa app and re-discovered devices. Unfortunately Alexa's response is the same when I saw "Open garage": "I'm not quite sure how to help you with that." I still seem to be running into what Michel referred to above. My question remains: Why is "open" more insecure than "on"? Link to comment
aceball Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 Same here, I had the garage door working with open/close command but now its not finding it. I have both garage and garage door as triggers and neither will work with the open/close command. Hoping Amazon will change this as asking alexa to turn on the garage is awkward. Link to comment
mrazz Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Same here, I had the garage door working with open/close command but now its not finding it. I have both garage and garage door as triggers and neither will work with the open/close command. Hoping Amazon will change this as asking alexa to turn on the garage is awkward. "Operate the garage door" works for me and is not quite as awkward. Link to comment
DaveStLou Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 "Operate the garage door" works for me and is not quite as awkward. aceball, You're right. It is a little less awkward. Hilariously, the first time I tried it though, Alexa added "Garage Door" to my shopping list. Link to comment
larryllix Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Operate turns on any lights I give it but not off. Seems it is meant to be a toggle function. Open/close and On/Off works for any light program, device scene for me. Link to comment
cyberk Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 I can confirm that it stopped working for me. I used to be able to open/close front door (program) and it's gone now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment
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