Alexa Binding; How to integrate a Rollershutter?

knaxman · March 29, 2020, 11:43am

HI Guys, I’m struggling to get my rollershutters into the new V3 Bindung. (as Dimmer with “Lightning” i got them mapped but not as Rollershutter)

Here is my .items

Rollershutter   HM_EG_TE_Markise_links_Proxy         "Markise links [%d %%]" (EG_Garten){ alexa="RangeController.rangeValue" [category="EXTERIOR_BLIND", friendlyNames="Markise links", supportedRange="0:100:10", unitOfMeasure="Percent", actionMappings="Close=0,Open=99,Lower=(-10),Raise=(+10)", stateMappings="Closed=0:98,Open=99:100"] }

The Alexa App does not recognize this item.
Has someone a hint for me what I’m doing wrong?

H102 · March 29, 2020, 12:47pm

See this post:

knaxman · March 29, 2020, 2:16pm

It looks like Amazon extendet the Alexa features to be able to display blinds

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/device-apis/alexa-rangecontroller.html#discover-blinds

jeshab · March 29, 2020, 6:21pm

Can you elaborate on the issue you are getting? Please provide as much details as you can to describe what you are trying to achieve and what you are experiencing.

knaxman · March 31, 2020, 8:26pm

OK, sorry for the confusion, I spend now some more time to check my system, I have genrally trouble to discover new items with alexa.

My Items discovered with OH 2.4 still work in the Alexa App, but I cant get any new ones in.

Here is what I did so far:

I followed strictly the description: Alexa Smart Home Skill - No devices found - Solution
–> cleaned up rest/items, deleted all items…
It seems that my server connections are OK, the existing and already discovered items still receive the alexa commands

these are my test items which I want to discover:

Rollershutter   HM_EG_TE_Markise_links_Proxy         "Markise links [%d %%]" (EG_Garten) { alexa="RangeController.rangeValue"  }
Dimmer          HM_EG_TE_Markise_links_AlexatestProxy         "Markise links test [%d %%]" (EG_Garten) [ "Switchable" ]

none of these are discovered

my logfile

2020-03-31 22:07:41.081 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Proxy' received command DOWN

2020-03-31 22:07:41.099 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Proxy changed from 45 to 100

2020-03-31 22:07:45.063 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set' received command 0

2020-03-31 22:07:45.068 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set predicted to become 0

2020-03-31 22:07:46.061 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Level changed from 45 to 43

2020-03-31 22:07:46.088 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Proxy changed from 100 to 43

2020-03-31 22:07:57.420 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - homematic_bridge_3014F711A061A7D8A9AB31F2_DUTY_CYCLE_RATIO changed from 42 to 43

2020-03-31 22:07:58.702 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Level changed from 43 to 0

2020-03-31 22:07:58.725 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Proxy changed from 43 to 0

2020-03-31 22:08:10.594 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'Cat_wants_out' received command ON

2020-03-31 22:08:10.616 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Cat_wants_out changed from OFF to ON

2020-03-31 22:08:10.654 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Proxy' received command 35

2020-03-31 22:08:10.681 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Proxy changed from 0 to 35

2020-03-31 22:08:10.725 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set' received command 35

2020-03-31 22:08:10.729 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set predicted to become 35

2020-03-31 22:08:10.779 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set changed from 0 to 35

2020-03-31 22:08:11.054 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set changed from 35 to 0

2020-03-31 22:08:11.542 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Level changed from 0 to 1

2020-03-31 22:08:11.565 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Proxy changed from 35 to 1

2020-03-31 22:08:22.261 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Level changed from 1 to 35

2020-03-31 22:08:22.288 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Proxy changed from 1 to 35

2020-03-31 22:08:22.313 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set changed from 0 to 35

2020-03-31 22:10:37.061 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - PV_AC_Voltage changed from 231.3 to 231.2

2020-03-31 22:12:13.189 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - homematic_bridge_3014F711A061A7D8A9AB31F2_DUTY_CYCLE_RATIO changed from 43 to 39

2020-03-31 22:15:37.404 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - PV_AC_Voltage changed from 231.2 to 230.6

2020-03-31 22:17:14.094 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - homematic_bridge_3014F711A061A7D8A9AB31F2_DUTY_CYCLE_RATIO changed from 39 to 35

2020-03-31 22:20:39.054 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - PV_AC_Voltage changed from 230.6 to 231.5

2020-03-31 22:22:15.064 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - homematic_bridge_3014F711A061A7D8A9AB31F2_DUTY_CYCLE_RATIO changed from 35 to 31

==> /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log <==

2020-03-31 22:24:20.467 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Refreshing model 'default.items'

==> /var/log/openhab2/events.log <==

2020-03-31 22:24:20.587 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - HM_EG_TE_Markise_rechts_Proxy changed from NULL to 1

2020-03-31 22:24:20.625 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - HM_EG_TE_Markise_vertikal_Proxy changed from NULL to 99

2020-03-31 22:24:30.464 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - homematic_bridge_3014F711A061A7D8A9AB31F2_DUTY_CYCLE_RATIO changed from 31 to 32

2020-03-31 22:25:30.616 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - homematic_bridge_3014F711A061A7D8A9AB31F2_DUTY_CYCLE_RATIO changed from 32 to 33

jeshab · March 31, 2020, 10:54pm

knaxman:

these are my test items which I want to discover:

Rollershutter   HM_EG_TE_Markise_links_Proxy         "Markise links [%d %%]" (EG_Garten) { alexa="RangeController.rangeValue"  }
Dimmer          HM_EG_TE_Markise_links_AlexatestProxy         "Markise links test [%d %%]" (EG_Garten) [ "Switchable" ]

none of these are discovered

The forum post you linked is a bit outdated and focuses more on the cloud connector setup. I would recommend that you use the troubleshooting guide.

From just looking at the item definition you provided, the Alexa configuration is incomplete and therefore most likely causing the discovery process to silently fail. Please only valid configuration setting as listed in the documentation.

Additionally, if you provide logs, please include what actions that were taken to trigger these events. All this is part of helping the troubleshooter, like myself, help you resolve your problem. Otherwise, it will be hard to get anywhere.

knaxman · April 1, 2020, 7:11pm

I ran through the troubleshooting guide.

Could you give me advice what is wron on my alexa definitions?

jeshab · April 1, 2020, 7:23pm

As I mentioned to you before, you need to narrow down the scope of the issue. To do so, you need to provide details on what steps you have taken and the outcome, what you are trying to achieve and what you are getting instead, what you understand and what you don’t. I would love to help you but without any of that information, I can’t help you much more than what is already documented.

knaxman · April 1, 2020, 8:38pm

@jeshab,

thanks for your help, I finally found my bug. The item definition had a syntax error! The group definition was the root cause " ```
(EG_Garten)

knaxman · April 5, 2020, 8:43am

HI here I’m back just having one issue remaining:

I want to give the command “Alexa Rolladen schließen” (Alexa, close Rolladen )
Issue: I get The message: “Rolladen unterstützt das nicht” (Rolladen does not support this)
The Lower and Raise commands work (Alexa Rolladen tiefer) but it seems it does not care about my mappings daying lower=-30 (see log, it lowers always 1%)
I saw several posts on this issue, but never a clear statement what the problem is and how I can solve it:

here my .Items

Rollershutter   EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Proxy         "Rollladen Wohnzimmer links [%d %%]" { alexa="RangeController.rangeValue", category="EXTERIOR_BLIND", friendlyNames="@Setting.Opening", supportedRange="0:100:10", unitOfMeasure="Percent", actionMappings="Close=0,Open=100,Lower=(-30),Raise=(+30)", stateMappings="Closed=0,Open=1:100" }

.Log

2020-04-05 10:41:26.104 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set' received command 94

2020-04-05 10:41:26.109 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set predicted to become 94

2020-04-05 10:41:26.136 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set changed from 95 to 94

2020-04-05 10:41:26.404 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set changed from 94 to 95

2020-04-05 10:41:27.708 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Level changed from 95 to 94

2020-04-05 10:41:27.761 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EG_WO_Rollladen_Links_Set changed from 95 to 94

Flole · September 6, 2021, 8:06pm

Did you ever solve this issue?

jeshab · September 8, 2021, 9:52pm

Which issue are you referring to?

Flole · September 8, 2021, 9:58pm

The roller shutter issue described in the last post before mine.

jeshab · September 8, 2021, 10:17pm

If it’s related to the utterances in German, you should use the examples listed in the official documentation.