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Resources for Alexa Smart Home developers.
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Missing Feature: no capability for curtain control #57

Open alexiade opened 6 years ago

alexiade commented 6 years ago

I have a pair of motorized curtains that run with commands Open,Close and Stop but there seems to be no matching skill to expose them to alexa. Right now I have no other option than to use TurnOn and TurnOff combined with Stop from playback... but its a bit weird to turn off curtains...

So Im wondering if there could be a way to extend the default skill protocol to support curtains too?

alexiade commented 6 years ago

(also, there seems to be a bug with routines containing smart home integrated devices - for every smart home instruction alexa just says "Sorry, what dev...", and that's it. running the same routine from the app works just fine, but alexa invocation is not working)

ninhxuanluu commented 5 years ago

I have to work around with light via brightness control to support curtain, so ugly.

skipfire commented 5 years ago

Completely agree, not having open/close is a big gap. Curtains, blinds, patio shades, even my motorized pool umbrellas. I know that I can make my own skill, which I have, but what I have in my home right now is 4 different apps (3 manufacturers and my own) just to issue various open/close commands.

swijckmans commented 2 years ago

+1 on this