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vintlabs / fauxmoESP

Add voice control of your ESP32 and ESP8266 devices using Amazon Alexa
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Change device type to light instead of smartplug? #37

Closed pvint closed 6 years ago

pvint commented 6 years ago

Original report by Karl Steddom (Bitbucket: ksteddom, GitHub: ksteddom).

Is it possible to edit the setup to have the echo detect the fauxmo device as a light rather than the current smartplug? This would not necessarily require diming, just on and off. The reason this is an annoyance is that Alexa has slightly different ways of handling lights from plugs (not a fauxmo issue). For example, I have two smart light bulbs in a room and a lamp that is plugged into a smart outlet. If I say "turn out the lights" Alexa will turn out anything that has device type of light but ignore smartplugs. It seems like it would be easy to edit modelName in WeMo.h but I can't seem to find a list of acceptable modelNames. Is there a list somewhere of variants of the setup.xml file for different devices?

pvint commented 6 years ago

Original comment by Bibi (Bitbucket: bibbbi, GitHub: bibbbi).

Hi there, Happy new year... this is not possible with FauxmoESP. You must create a device group in Alexa. Create a Smart Home Device Group