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I changed my echo location to Australia and the voice to Australia but haven’t gone near my amazon account. All things still there and controllable.

Thanks
Andrew

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will openhab2 for alexa be available in Aus anytime soon? All my devices are gone.
Dan, Thanks for this Skill, appreciate your efforts. Please include English (Aus) to this skill

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The Skill is still not available if the language selected is English Australia, can someone please help to publish the skill to the Australian Market?

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I use my account for prime and purchasing things so it’s in there somewhere I’m in Australia. Might make a new US account as a workaround

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This has been a great integration/skill, thank you, however would love it to be published in ENGLISH (Australian) please. Switching to my native language has broken my skill.

Details here: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/baecec2a-3bfa-4f8f-94d1-c2c85c1f0669/how-to-update-your-skills-for-australia-and-new-zealand

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As far as it is communicated here on github, Dan is working on the Australien English support.

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Ok, good to hear.about English (Au) language support is in progress. As it takes up to 5 days for certification so can I take it more than just adding the language to the app profile in this case?

Now I just need to chase ewelink and wemo both of which are currently not available.
It was good to see Harmony became available yesterday and Hue were therefor last week or so.

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This is a huge thread and I am feeling a little lost here…I would like to know if rollershutter control is now implemented or if I still need to create some rule to control the rollershutters.

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Rollershutters as an openHAB item works for Alexa, but you should tag them as Switchable.

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Great to hear skill is in play for English (Australia). Main reason a bought the Dot was to integrate into OpenHAB2.

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Any updates on a timeline for AUS support?

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Hi SmoochiesBoss,

How did you make this work? I’m literally losing all my hair. cant make it work using the RFXCOM RFY actuator controlling Somfy shutters and using the switchable tag just does not work. To be precise, Alexa understands the command, sends the command to openhab but the openhab command fails to execute because it cannot interpret a number or percentage value and make that run as a command.

i dont know if i was able to explain it :slight_smile:
Emre

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Alex does not find my device, do you see any tagging error?

Number HzTargetTempWz "Zieltemparatur Wohnzimmer" <temperature> (FF_Wz_Heizung) ["TargetTemperature"] {channel="homematic:HmIP-eTRV-2:ccu2:000A1709A64307:1#SET_POINT_TEMPERATURE" }

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@siod

Standalone [ “TargetTemperature” ] is not possible.

You need a group tagging [ “Thermostat” ].

See here in this topic the very first post.

Group  gDownstairsThermostat "Downstairs Thermostat" (gFF) ["Thermostat","Fahrenheit"]
Number DownstairsThermostatCurrentTemp "Downstairs Thermostat Current Temperature" (gDownstairsThermostat) [ "CurrentTemperature" ]
Number DownstairsThermostatTargetTemperature "Downstairs Thermostat Target Temperature" (gDownstairsThermostat) [ "TargetTemperature" ]
String DownstairsThermostatHeatingCoolingMode "Downstairs Thermostat Heating/Cooling Mode" (gDownstairsThermostat) [ "homekit:HeatingCoolingMode" ]
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@asemev, sorry for the slow reply. I can tell Alexa to “Open the shades”, “Close the shades 80%”, “Open the right shade 90%”, etc. My motors are ILT2’s with a Somfy ILT to Z-Wave Digital Interface on each one. Here is what I have:

shades.items

Group:Rollershutter		gShades
	Dimmer				iShades				"Shades" ["Switchable"]
Rollershutter	iRight_Shade	"Right Shade" (gShades) ["Switchable"] {channel="zwave:device:b3440654:node18:switch_dimmer"}
Rollershutter	iLeft_Shade		"Left Shade"(gShades) ["Switchable"] {channel="zwave:device:b3440654:node19:switch_dimmer"}
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Do you have a rule to connect Dimmer iShades to the Rollershutters?

/Mike

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Yup. Forgot to put that in my earlier post. Here you go!

rule "All Shades"
when
	Item iShades received update
then
	gShades.sendCommand(iShades.state.toString)
end
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Is there a possibility to get Alexa / OpenHAB to respond to Lock / Unlock.
I want to say Alexa, Unlock Frontdoor.

/Mike

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Check Routines in Alexa App. There you can set phrases and combine these triggers with switches

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I don’t know if that’s possible, but it sure sounds unsecure. Someone could break into your place with a loudspeaker!