[How To] Alexa V3 - Report status of window contact (Update: now possible via ContactSensor in DE)

[jeshab (Jeremy)]

@momo90

Is it possible to get the state of a switch item?

This should answer your question:

Alexa question --> Read out boolean status of lamps & switches?

So this is a limitation on the Alexa side with the PowerController interface. Only Amazon would be able to answer the reason for it. As you noticed, you can get the status of a PowerController modeled item via the Alexa App but you can’t get that same status when requesting via voice commands. This is because the skill only gets ReportState requests for the former but not for the latter. I know it’s pretty frustrating but if this is a feature you must have, you could use a workaround via the t…