I’ve publicly released my Alexa-HA Skill on GitHub . This provides verbal I/O to control your OpenHAB server/items using voice via the Amazon Echo. Key features include: Switch devices/appliances/lights/etc Set light colors individually, by room or group Control light dimmer levels individually, …

Hi Philipp, it looks quite perfect. I made some additions, but how can I contribute them. I’m not a experienced github user and it seems for me to complicated to get the necessary experience just for this one file. Can I send you a PM with this lanuageGER.js file and maybe some comments. BTW: do y…

I did not understand the whole github pull-request-thing either at the beginning. :slight_smile: You can use the GitHub-Website to edit files directly in the browser. GitHub will automatically creatze a form of the project in your account and after saving you will be ask to contribute your change …

That might be feasible for single text files. But for actual code you have to ensure everything is compiling (and working!) that you send to the project. Manual changes have the tendency to fail due to typos or missing parts. To make the maintainers and suers happy you should always stick to the wo…

Hi Have managed to moved from the HueEmulation to the Alexa OpenHab skill. Was a pretty easy process. However, after a few days of using, i’m finding the behaviour less responsive… Using HueEmulation everything was pretty instant. Ask for lights, on they go. On a very rare occasion i got a 'i’m …

Hi Pete, I’ve experienced the same behaviour. That’s why I moved back to HUEemulation, which is quite reliable. Nevertheless I’m continously watching the alexa skill developments and hope to switch back to the skill soon. At the moment the HUEemulation and the skill don’t have big differences in fe…

Thanks. I may do the same, but will continue to test when the family not in and switch back :wink: I think this skill is going to be great, just need to bed down. We can all help testing it and giving feedback! Pete

@PeteW & @staehler67 - Where are you running the Alexa HA service/endpoint? Is it a server/VM or low powered device? I have also experienced this from time to time but it comes and goes. No rhyme or reason but I would point my ‘development finger’ at Amazon’s endpoints based on what I have seen t…

@Philipp_Prehl - thanks a bunch for taking the time to introduce german translations for AlexaHA. I am excited to get this merged into the project and pave the way for other languages as well! Cheers, .

Switching lights with a cloud service is a no no for me. Lights should be super responsive. And in a home automation setup you shouldn’t rely on a cloud service at all if possible. Remember what you get with this skill is: Local voice > Amazon voice recognition > local Echo > Amazon cloud > myopenh…

@d0t I assume the problems by amazon as well. I run my openhab on a VM and for test on a raspi3. There was no difference. I’ve enriched @Philipp_Prehl patch with some additional translations but am not in the place to “github” this. Is there another way to forward this file to you?

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Ah…not sure I’ve posted in the right place - sorry if that is the case…as I’m using the Alexa Skill…