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Aircoookie / Espalexa

Alexa voice control for ESP8266/ESP32 (including brightness and color!)
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Choose/adjust the effects in Alexa App #67

Open anrada73 opened 5 years ago

anrada73 commented 5 years ago

Thank you for this project. I implemented your library in my project https://youtu.be/IG_WMCPlVx4 , so you can turn it off/on and adjust the brightness. Is it possible to choose/adjust the effects with Alexa? I would like to do it so that the names of the effects will be shown in the Alexa app, just like the selection of colours.

Aircoookie commented 5 years ago

Very cool project! You have done something very similar to my WLED project!

Since Espalexa communicates with the Echo via the local Philips hue api (which only supports on/off, brightness and color), setting effects is not easily possible. Sorry, the only workaround I can think of is emulating more EspalexaDevices which trigger certain effects when turned on or set to a specific color. As cool as an effect list in the app would be, it won't happen (soon), because it's not supported by the API.

anrada73 commented 5 years ago

Thank you. "emulating more EspalexaDevices" this will not look good and not user friendly

anrada73 commented 5 years ago

I did a little differently) . ab 08:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3nQG0HoIDA