Thanks for the answer, and apologies for not making myself 100% clear.
What I meant by “keep things local” was: Going from CCU to Openhab to Alexa not via Cloudmatic…
- CCU2 → Cloudmatic → Amazon Alexa
… but go from the CCU2 locally to openHAB and then via myopenhab to Alexa:
- CCU2 → openHAB → myopenhab/Alexa Binding → Amazon Alexa
I do not yet fully understand this part:
Am I maybe misunderstanding your solution proposal? As in:
- How do I get from “the end result of what you described above” to an openHAB item which I can control in openHAB via a slider / embed it into my openHAB Dashboard (similar to my lights-example-screenshot above which works perfectly well already)
- How do I get from “the end result of what you described above” to an openHAB item that I can access in openHAB via Alexa (similar to the way I already control my openHAB light-items via Alexa) via adding the “Amazon Alexa” metadata of an item to make it discoverable).
In both examples, I’d like to go the “CCU2 → openHAB → myopenhab/Alexa Binding → Amazon Alexa”-route.
I don’t want to sound stupid (as in: I am pretty new, but got several item working in openHAB already, and my lights also work perfectly via Alexa via myopenhab). But to me, at the end of your instructions at the very top, I am not sure what to do with the three items & groups, because to me they look like nothing I can “slide” in openHAB to set the shutter level or nothing I could sensefully add the “Amazon Alexa” metadata, to have Alexa do exactly that.
Maybe you get my intention from the description.