Kentinada Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Anyone know if it is possible to have a program based on a condition have an Amazon Echo give an audible alert? e.g. "Your garage door is open." Link to comment
Michel Kohanim Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 @Kentinada, Here's the link with instructions. With kind regards, Michel Link to comment
Kentinada Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 Thanks. The documentation is little sketchy for me. I tried creating a variable in the Connectivity | Amazon Echo dialog and put it in the Alexa Motion Sensor category. I refreshed my devices in my Alexa app so I could see the new device. When I select it as the "When this happens" device, it says the device is not currently supported. Not sure where I'm going wrong. What info would you need to help? Link to comment
AnthemAVM Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 2 hours ago, Kentinada said: Thanks. The documentation is little sketchy for me. I tried creating a variable in the Connectivity | Amazon Echo dialog and put it in the Alexa Motion Sensor category. I refreshed my devices in my Alexa app so I could see the new device. When I select it as the "When this happens" device, it says the device is not currently supported. Not sure where I'm going wrong. What info would you need to help? Interesting that is the same problem I am having. Link to comment
AnthemAVM Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Thanks. The documentation is little sketchy for me. I tried creating a variable in the Connectivity | Amazon Echo dialog and put it in the Alexa Motion Sensor category. I refreshed my devices in my Alexa app so I could see the new device. When I select it as the "When this happens" device, it says the device is not currently supported. Not sure where I'm going wrong. What info would you need to help? I had this problem, make sure to log out of the isy portal. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk Link to comment
snowtech Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 11 hours ago, Kentinada said: Anyone know if it is possible to have a program based on a condition have an Amazon Echo give an audible alert? e.g. "Your garage door is open." Have you considered a raspberry pi for this project? I tried using routines for alexa and that sucks... It takes around 1 minute for you to get the audible alert. Using Network Resources you can trigger the rpi to say whatever you want. Its way easier and once you have the system running, you only need to change the line on the Network Resource for each alert... Link to comment
Kentinada Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 I have not considered a raspberry pi. Don't know a thing about them. AnthemAVM, once I logged out and back in again, I now see the motion sensor device in the Alexa app under "When this happens" and choosing device. What is not clear is what value it's looking for to trigger this. According to the documentation page (link), you should be able to have Alexa say different things based on the value of the state variable. How does the Alexa routine know what value? I don't see there is anywhere to check the value in the routine. Link to comment
Kentinada Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 OK, another piece to the puzzle. I just figured out that when I added the state variable as a motion sensor in my ISY portal, I set the value to 1 for motion detected. So I created my routine to say "The garage door is now open." in the Alexa app. I have a program that sets the state variable to 1 when the door is opened and 0 when closed. I opened the garage door but Alexa said nothing. I must still be missing something. Link to comment
Kentinada Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 OK, it works. I didn't see that I had selected an Echo device that I could now hear from my office. When I changed it to a closer echo, it worked great! Link to comment
larryllix Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 I have tried this with no success. I can see the variabe change states in the Alexa app but the routine never responds/triggers. I have found this same problem with other Alexa routines using a vocal trigger (no outside factors at all). Some routines work every time and others just refuse to work. I figured it must be something I said. Link to comment
markv58 Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 1 hour ago, larryllix said: I figured it must be something I said. It could be the way you said it, she is a girl. Link to comment
markv58 Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 I've had to delete then re-make a couple of routines or change the action order to get a couple to work. All of mine work now. Link to comment
larryllix Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 3 hours ago, markv58 said: I've had to delete then re-make a couple of routines or change the action order to get a couple to work. All of mine work now. Thanks. I did delete and start from scratch a few times. I just can't figure out why one works the next one refuses to work, and then the third one works fine, all using vocal triggers to run a vocal response. I finally gave up. Another try at it. The ones I have working are entertaining. ISY Portal variable triggers have never worked for me yet. The status shows up in the Alexa app fine. It just won't trigger anything. Link to comment
Kentinada Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 I guess I'll consider myself lucky for getting my first try at this working - after a few tries. Link to comment
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