–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…

Here lately I’ve been getting a lot of “Hrrmm, [device] is not responding” from Alexa. Whenever I try and access https://home.myopenhab.org/start/index , I get… 504 Gateway Time-out nginx/1.10.0 (Ubuntu) From reading the recent messages on this thread, it seems like this is a server / load issue …

[image] RayMYP: As far as I know you still can’t “tag” items via Paper UI which means any Alexa items need to be created via text files. I use the Rest-API for Tagging items, there is no need to create text files. [restapi]

Hi Matthew, I have set up a private openHAB cloud instance and a custom Alexa skill last week. I’m runs perfectly :blush::+1:t5:

@Toddah @RayMYP There are two ways of tagging: I desrcibed it earlier here: [image] Official Alexa Smart Home Skill for openHAB 2 Announcements My tip is to delete the database and readd your items with config files. I was in the same situation. Everything wa…

[image] Benji: I have set up a private openHAB cloud instance and a custom Alexa skill last week. Could you please elaborate? What do you mean by “private openHAB cloud instance”?

Off course, I have installed a personal version of the myopenhab.org service running on a cheap VPS hosted in the cloud. This is where i connect my OH2 server to, and also the point of contact for the AWS Lambda Function I use for the Alexa Skill. Link: setup-your-own-openhab-cloud-myopenhab-server…

Hi Benji.. Can you give a bit more info on how you’ve setup the Alexa skill… I have my own instance of openhab-cloud on a virtual server and a Node.js & WSGI server that I already host a couple of Alexa skills on but I’m struggling to see how I could host the OpenHAB Alexa skill myself.

Hi Mark, did you have a look at this Project ? It gives you all the details, only thing is that you can only create API Version 2 skills with a little trick as described here .

Hi Michael, I have the exact same question.Alexa skill for openhab 2 is great but from the point of user utility having timmer based commands integrated with regular on/off commands makes a lot more sence.I want to achieve the same. Do you have any idea how can this be done?

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Rickecho (Rick Sanchez) January 9, 2018, 7:35pm 587

He is speaking of this: Setup your own openhab-cloud (myopenhab) server/instance - #62 by juppe1