OH2 will load all new ‘items’ when the file is saved. You can check your OH2 log to see what has loaded and make changes accordingly. Finally I scanned for devices in Alexa and it found them all.
Now I can simply say “Alexa, turn on Room 2” or “Alexa, turn off Room 2” and it responds almost instantly.
Note: Sometimes comments in the items file stop loading of the items beneath it. For this reason I now remove them on my setup!
That’s great! I am trying to achieve the same thing although with the Amazon-echo-HA-bridge. Can I ask where did you get the hue emulation .jar from? I have found the GitHub, but I cant seem to find the compiled version anywhere?
Took less than a minute to get it all set up and working, as opposed to the 4 hours I’ve spent trying to work out how to POST rest commands to Amazon-Echo-HA-bridge. I will link your post in my previous question, absolutely great guide and thanks again!
Yes, I actuallly had the echo-bridge working in a docker container and spent about a day on it. It is crazy. All those posts should be commented on as they are a hindrance.
I’m using Insteon as it is … Dimming works just fine. I don’t have a color change option with the insteon (I’m not using directly controllable bulbs, just wall switches & dimmers and the like).
It’s astonishingly simple when you know what to do! and thank you for that.
When the HA skill is approved by Amazon that will provide additional functionality but for now this is awesome!
I agreed however the HA skill will require an internet connection which is no problem (we all have them) but it results in a round robin to the internet and back for each openHAB request to turn the lights on or off.
I think that’s a bit of overkill for me but could help the control when not home…
I agree! But the addition of custom responses and the ability to return information to the user will be a giant bonus. Perhaps it will be possible to use both types of connectivity depending on what we request of the Echo device! What’s really nice about this is we can then programmatically decide how we want to handle the request.
Hi sir, as I do not use Amazon Echo and I’m totally new to OH so I was confused in several parts you mentioned:
OH2 will load all new 'items' when the file is saved
Where exactly can I find items loaded by OH2? Because when I access the log file of OH2, I see nothing related to loaded items.
And when you said:
Finally I scanned for devices in Alexa and it found them all.
What exactly how can I scanned for devices in Alexa, I’m now using Alexa +IFTTT as my voice controlling system so forgive me if I don’t understand your method.
OK friend <3 @sir_luddite
When I finished reading the both links you gave, I realize that this method only used with devices which are able connected to WIFI and compatible with Alexa.
As I using IFTTT with alexa, so I can control any items from my .item file (for example I can control a relay + lightbulb connected to arduino…). The only thing I feel annoying about my method is that I have to say the long keyword “Alexa trigger turn on/off abc” and the response from Alexa is “Sending that to IF” sometime sounds a little bit silly. I just want something simple like “Alexa turn on/off abc” and a brief answer like “OK”.
As far as I know, it seems that even amazon ha bridge also need compatible devices and control directly that devices through commands which are said to Alexa device. My purpose is saying command to OH host (raspberry pi 3 running Alexa) => it will control my items and I will send commands from my rasp to arduino nodes => my device changes correspondingly (Just like IFTTT + Alexa but I need more simple command and reply syntax from raspberry). This way I can reduce the cost of setting up my whole system
Anyway to implement a system as my description? Please let me know! Thanks soooo much
If pleased, can you give us the link where to get the milight bulb just like yours?
At last, two silly question:
In your example you order: 'Alexa, turn on Room 1". Is “Room 1” is your item’s tag or is it the display name? I mean, my item is:
I installed Alexa on Raspberry pi 3 and it;s working pretty well now with IFTTT service
Thanks for your reply, now I know the syntax but my Alexa system keep saying discovery incompleted