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Hi Simon,
might be worth it. Maybe someone has a solution for this issue. I would really like to get this fixed.

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Hi!
Anyone made experiences with Alexa Routines and setting a Thermostat?
When i select a thermostat in the app i get the notification:" device not supported"

Best regards

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@digitaldan Hi Dan! Could you please answer to my question? see here

EDIT: here is the answer!

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Hello,
I have the same problem my Alexa set the right temperature but says "something went wrong"
could some one fix it?
Best reguards

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Waiting eagerly for Openhab Alexa skill to support English(India). Eager to use it in India since echo devices have launched here. The openhab alexa skill is not available here yet.

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I had this for a longer time as well. It was actually becuase my heating mode was undefined instead of somethign like: off, auto, heat or cool

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Hey guys,

at first - thanks for the skill - great work.

I’ve some troubles with the Humidity and alexa.

I am using Homematic CCU2 with several Homematic IP devices. One of these devices is one Wall mounted thermostat which is collecting the current temp, set point temp and humidity and much more.

CurrentTemperature and TargetTemperature are working fine. I’ve configured them as a part of a group which is tagged with “Thermostat”.
I’ve added another Thing with the Tag “CurrentHumidity” and exposed it via openhab cloud connector.

The “Thermostat” Group is shown at alexa - the “CurrentHumidity” Number not - Any clue?

Thanks in advance

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I think that’s a shortcoming in Amazon’s implementation of their home automation protocol. Thermostat control is pretty basic via Alexa regardless of what it’s talking to (Nest/Hive/OpenHAB)

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Hi, The skill is not available in India (English-India). please help…

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Anyone else getting device is unresponsive to any OH devices with Alexa tonight?

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Yes, see this thread.

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Any news on the “open/close/stop” command topic? I mean are you really controlling your shutters like “set the shutters to 0/100%” or “switch the shutters off/on”?! How do you stop them then? This seems totally contrary to how natural you talk to the Echo otherwise…

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Humidity is not supported at the moment.

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I like this skill and I started to port it to Alexa Smart Home Skill V3. I would create a github fork if the first version is ready. Or is anybody else working on it?

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Best would be to ask @digitaldan

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You should open an issue to let others know you are working on this enhancement.

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Hi,

I’ve just installed OpenHAB and added some devices with the PaperUI and created some items.
Furthermore I’ve connected my OpenHAB to the cloud and installed the Alexa skill.

Now I’m a little bit confused what I habe to do to add my devices to Alexa.

For example:
I have added my Samsung TV by the SamsungTV-binding und created a Switch called “TV”, which controls the Mute-chanel.

What I have to do, to connect this Switch to the Alexa skill?

Regards
Philipp

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Read the first couple of posts in this thread. Mainly you will have to tag your items according to the homekit addon:

http://docs.openhab.org/addons/ios/homekit/readme.html

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Is this possible in PaperUI yet? You couldn’t add the required ‘tag’ via PaperUI in the stable 2.1 release but I’ve not tried the 2.2 snapshot so don’t know if it’s been added.

Creating a text file based item from the samples provided is easy though so don’t let that stop you @hmerk , just means you might also need to create a rule to map the Alexa ‘switch’ item to your PaperUI switch item that keeps them in sync.

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Thx for the tip.
So I have to add these special tags to my item-definitions.
Do I have to create a new items file or where I can find the items file from the PaperUI, to edit them ?

And what is the purpose of groups?