Alexa "open garage door" instead of "garage door on"?

Apps & Services Amazon Alexa
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Hi,

is there any way to set-up my garage door to be able say “open garage door” instead of “garage door on”? If I tell alexa to open the garage door, she says that device doesn’t support that. I configured it as switchable.

Thanks in advance,
Denis

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You could change that directly in the Alexa app if you simply create a routine and adding your garage door switch to it. In the Routine you can decide wich sentence you want to use.

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I already tried that. But it doesn’t work. If there is garage door in the sentence it’s every time the same result

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Yes, you can without the need of Alexa routines. You should use the semantic extensions concept.

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I got that working with the v3 API. Thanks!

switch garage_door_state “Garagentor” (gStartPersist) {channel=“mqtt:topic:embedded:garage:door”,alexa=“ToggleController.toggleState” [category=“DOOR”, friendlyNames="@Setting.Garagentor", actionMappings=“Close=OFF,Open=ON”, stateMappings=“Closed=CLOSED,Open=OPEN”]}

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As you highlighted in the post below, asset ids (friendlyNames="@Setting.Opening") should not be translated opposed to standard text-based labels (friendlyNames="Garagentor"). The reason is because the former translates to all supported languages on the Alexa side. This is why it usually recommended to use these over standard labels.