–Updated 5/31/2018, added new Languages and Regions – I am pleased to announce that the openHAB 2 Alexa Smart Home skill has been certified by Amazon today and is now live. This skill allows you to connect your openHAB setup through the myopenHAB.org cloud service to Amazon Alexa. With this skill…

[image] digitaldan: see the Homekit binding ReadMe above. Or at the openHAB Documentation site: http://docs.openhab.org/addons/io/homekit/readme.html

[image] watou: Or at the openHAB Documentation site: http://docs.openhab.org/addons/io/homekit/readme.html Right, thats a better place to go. I have updated the original post. Thanks :slight_smile:

This works great for me. Thank you. As many others I’m waiting for support for rollershutter-items. If I tag them as “Lighting” it works a little bit with quirky sentenses… What is your best practice for the moment? And only the Label of the item is recognized as triggerword for alexa. Is it pos…

[image] mashborn: As many others I’m waiting for support for rollershutter-items. Roller shutter support has been added, its just not deployed yet. I hope to push that out in the next few days after we get some usage on the code. This would work like a dimmer, so on/off, increase decrease, o…

[image] mashborn: As many others I’m waiting for support for rollershutter-items. As a workaround use a dimmer item and a rule: items: Rollershutter your_shutter_item ... Dimmer your_shutter_item_Alexa "shutter" ["Lighting"] rule: rule "Shutter Alexa" when Item your_shutter_item_Ale…

Please vote for rollershutter/blinds support in Alexa Smart Home Skills: [image] Official Openhab skill for Alexa amazon echo available! Beginners Awesome news! If you are interested in rollershutter/blinds support for Alexa Smart Home please vote on this fea…

Finally!!! Giving it a shot soon, since it is a missing link up until now. Even my wife asked me a couple days why this isn’t possible… here we go!

At the moment the smart home commands are only remote-control-commands. “Switch on light x” I would like so see another kind of voice-commands like “Switch off light x at midnight” or “Close roof-window in 20 minutes” I think, it would be ok to use the alexa internal timer functions. Is this …

Any hint why the command lasts so long from saying to doing? I say “Light Living Room Off” and about 1 minute later the light is off. But not always as it doesn’t seem to understand me all the time. With the hue emulation it worked better and about immediately.

And only the Label of the item is recognized as triggerword for alexa. Is it possible to add different variations for a single item? (In our house one person calls it “Library”, the other “Music Room” and the third says “Piano Room” for the same light.) Yes, I’ve done this. Create an item for e…

Official Alexa Smart Home Skill for openHAB 2

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henning (Henning Treu) February 22, 2017, 9:12am 30

Please vote for rollershutter/blinds support in Alexa Smart Home Skills: