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An easy-to-use NodeRED node for adding Alexa capability to NodeRED. NO Alexa Skills required.
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Controlling blinds #5

Closed Shogun1978 closed 6 years ago

Shogun1978 commented 6 years ago

First of all: great work and big thank you! I use to control my Loxone smart home 👍 Is it somehow possible to say "Alexa, close livingroom blind"? Currently I use "Alexa, set livingroom blind to x percent." Works great, but sounds completely strange.

By the way: it works with the german Alexa!

torinnguyen commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately no. In order to keep this node so simple to use. It was designed to emulate a Philips Hue bridge & device within local network. Amazon Echo is hardcoded to support only on/off/dimming command via this route. Any other type of support has to go through the Alexa Skills route (cloud-based). There is another node does just that node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill

Shogun1978 commented 6 years ago

Ok, thank you for the fast response. I know this node and already tried it. Basically, I can control blinds with the node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill like I do with your contrib. But I don't need any server in the backend. I already tried my own Amazon skill, but don't like using a keyword for it. So for now: "Alexa, set blinds to x percent" :-) I would be happy, if you extend the skill (create another) for blinds, getting/setting temperatures etc.

burleanu commented 6 years ago

hello @Shogun1978 I think I found a solution for your request. Inside the Alexa app on the phone you have a page called "routines" and in there you can say what you want to Alexa. So you can make a routine for opening the blinds and another to close them. Or anything you like to say and what Alexa will have to do to that words.