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Expose your homebridge controlled devices to Amazon Alexa.
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HomeKit scenes #460

Closed adavison007 closed 2 years ago

adavison007 commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to control HomeKit scenes with your Alexa plugin?

NorthernMan54 commented 2 years ago

No, scenes are not exposed

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 Is it possible to control HomeKit scenes with your Alexa plugin?

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brinley commented 2 years ago

Just to add to this, i found that in Alexa app itself after the homekit devices are picked up, I was able to manually recreate the scenes by creating Alexa device groups. This allowed me to do what I was doing with scenes which was to beable to turn on and off groups of devices. Hopefully this will help your use case as well

NorthernMan54 commented 2 years ago

Personally, I create composite devices within homekit-bridged( node-red ), and control those from Alexa. I find they work really well when combined with Homebridge-automation and the stateful lights pattern ( https://github.com/NorthernMan54/node-red-contrib-homebridge-automation/wiki/Stateful-Lights ). I have all my Alexa devices using stateful lights as the device controlled for 'Alexa, turn on the lights'. As this makes a great WAF experience.