paulbates Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Amazon is trickling out improvements to the initial thin skillsets released with the echo. Amazon announced this week that it added thermostat query to their smarthome skill set. The individual smarthome skills need to be updated by their manufacturers to support it. A handful like Honeywell, seem to have made the update, Nest users are reporting that it does not work, neither does it work yet for Venstar. Here are the additional capabilities. Not earth-shattering, but it is progress. Time to bug your manufacturer if its not working for your thermostat. Paul Link to comment
Bumbershoot Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Amazon is trickling out improvements to the initial thin skillsets released with the echo. Amazon announced this week that it added thermostat query to their smarthome skill set. The individual smarthome skills need to be updated by their manufacturers to support it. A handful like Honeywell, seem to have made the update, Nest users are reporting that it does not work, neither does it work yet for Venstar. Here are the additional capabilities. Not earth-shattering, but it is progress. Time to bug your manufacturer if its not working for your thermostat. Paul As of 2/25, this appears to be working with Nest thermostats. When queried, "Alexa, what's the temperature of Family Room", here's how Alexa responds, "According to Family Room, it's currently 65 degrees". Thanks for the notice. One more thing to help improve the WAF... Link to comment
paulbates Posted February 25, 2017 Author Share Posted February 25, 2017 Great, thanks for the follow up.. For Nest, I was referring to user comments to amazon's post a few days ago. I know that today it still doesn't work for Venstar. To clarify, you didn't need to delete the old skill, and/or load a new one? Paul As of 2/25, this appears to be working with Nest thermostats. When queried, "Alexa, what's the temperature of Family Room", here's how Alexa responds, "According to Family Room, it's currently 65 degrees". Thanks for the notice. One more thing to help improve the WAF... Link to comment
Bumbershoot Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Great, thanks for the follow up.. For Nest, I was referring to user comments to amazon's post a few days ago. I know that today it still doesn't work for Venstar. To clarify, you didn't need to delete the old skill, and/or load a new one? Paul No, I didn't touch a thing with either Nest or Alexa. It "just worked"™. Link to comment
alambertus Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 It works for my Ecobee3, without any additional setup. In fact, it added all of my sensors so I can ask what temperature it is in each room...... Link to comment
cheezit73 Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Does anyone know if this should/will work with Insteon thermostats throughout the ISY skill? Link to comment
paulbates Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 Got a confirmation email from Venstar, they said to watch for a press release Paul Link to comment
Michel Kohanim Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Hi Paul, Thanks so very much for the update. We will be working on it as soon as we are a littel more comfortable with Google Assistant. Benoit is pretty much overworked at this point! With kind regards,Michel Link to comment
paulbates Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 Hi Paul, Thanks so very much for the update. We will be working on it as soon as we are a littel more comfortable with Google Assistant. Benoit is pretty much overworked at this point! With kind regards, Michel Hi Michel, Yes, I understand that for sure. Paul Link to comment
nickp Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 So, I have an Ecobee three, and this is sometimes working, sometimes not. I originally setup my Ecobee and called it StreetName. It made sense to me when looking at the app, but when Alexa supported it, saying "set streetname temp to 74 degrees" was confusing for the wife. So, i changed the ecobee name to home. Now, I can say "set home temperature to 74 degrees" and everyone is happy. However, with the new voice commands, I cannot say "alexa, what is the temperature at home" - she always replies with the weather report. I also cannot say "alexa, what is the temperature at master bed" as it tells me that device does not support that command. My ISY also has a device called "master bed" and I belive that is confusing. Lastly, the HUGE bug is that if I say "alexa, set home temperature to 74 degrees", it does so, but puts a permanent hold at that temp. It does not cancel the hold after 4 hours like the controller does, and does not switch to home/away/night mode. So until I manually cancel the 74 degrees on the controller, the temp is on hold So, this alexa stuff is almost working with my ecobee, but really not enough to be useful... Link to comment
stusviews Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 There's a ready made IFTTT recipe to return the ecobee3 thermostat to regular scheduling that's easy to implement is you have the ISY portal. It's called, "Resume Ecobee program at night." Link to comment
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