My simple Variable Off

Reading Lamps Variable Off - [ID 0092][Parent 0094]

If

'Sitting Room / Sitting Room Lamps' Status is Off

Then

$sReading_Lamps = 0

Else

- No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

1 minute ago, bgrubb1 said:

I tried to make this work months ago and never got the alexa spoken to work

There is a PG3X node server called "Virtual Button" that accomplished it for me

And this is triggered with a ISY Switch?

@PB11 You are talking about a different thing here. This is ISY telling Alexa to do something, not Alexa telling ISY to do something.

And yes, I have tried deleting variables, and I have added additional variables and exposed them to Alexa. But Alexa, as can be seen from the screenshot, says the device is not responding or sometimes it says the server isn't responding (whose server I don't know). Of course ISY is working with Alexa in the other direction, I can tell Alexa to do something with ISY and indeed ISY does whatever.

And I am not using switches or a program at all to change the variable state. I am manually changing the variable, so I know it is changing.

Edited yesterday at 02:16 AM1 day by apostolakisl

The best I can recommend is to be sure Alexa is not showing more than 1 item with your variable. Then as said give it a day or 2 and if it still not working try to get help from UDI to see if everything looks good in the portal, then you will have to move on to Amazon to try and get it working.

Larry

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18 hours ago, PB11 said:

Ppl have told me how share your programs to this forum other than cut and paste but i can't recall.

Can anyone enlighten me?

@PB11 in the AC, right click on the program you want to copy and go tot he bottom, copy to clipboard. Then paste into the body of your post

@apostolakisl

Ok, not sure if this is what you are describing, this was the issue I started this topic about, but the second portion of my setup is the Alexa routines which are triggered by a spoken name which i have assigned to the state variable.

I simply ask Alexa to turn on "Reading Lamps" (state variable name) which sets the variable to 1, and "reading lamps" off sets the variable off.

17 hours ago, apostolakisl said:

@PB11 You are talking about a different thing here. This is ISY telling Alexa to do something, not Alexa telling ISY to do something.

@apostolakisl This portion occurs with the spoken word associated in the isy portal alexa device list. I think i misunderstood this was the portion not working for you as when i started this topic i was simply trying to get alexa variables visible to Alexa ecosystem

For my setup, my spoken word changes the status of the isy state variable, which then triggers alexa scenes via my Alexa routines , but i think could also trigger isy scenes.

To get my head around this I had to watch the status of my variables as I voiced commands to Alexa. ie, Alexa, reading lamps on = variable closed

But this may be all for not, as it sounds like you may be having issues with the portal setup as others have pointed to.

Wish i could be of more help.

1 hour ago, PB11 said:

@apostolakisl

Ok, not sure if this is what you are describing, this was the issue I started this topic about, but the second portion of my setup is the Alexa routines which are triggered by a spoken name which i have assigned to the state variable.

I simply ask Alexa to turn on "Reading Lamps" (state variable name) which sets the variable to 1, and "reading lamps" off sets the variable off.

@apostolakisl This portion occurs with the spoken word associated in the isy portal alexa device list. I think i misunderstood this was the portion not working for you as when i started this topic i was simply trying to get alexa variables visible to Alexa ecosystem

For my setup, my spoken word changes the status of the isy state variable, which then triggers alexa scenes via my Alexa routines , but i think could also trigger isy scenes.

To get my head around this I had to watch the status of my variables as I voiced commands to Alexa. ie, Alexa, reading lamps on = variable closed

But this may be all for not, as it sounds like you may be having issues with the portal setup as others have pointed to.

Wish i could be of more help.

I think you are doing both ways (Alexa voice to isy, isy back to Alexa via a variable triggering a routine. I am pretty sure a voice command can directly trigger a scene though, so not sure you would need to have Alexa use a routine on that at all. I have a number of voice commands that directly trigger Insteon devices without need for a routine.

I opened a ticket with UD since my variable changes are not being seen by Alexa and thus my routines are not running.