Openhab-cloud and Alexa or IFTTT

Apps & Services myopenHAB
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Hi

I’m running my own instance of openhab-cloud and all is working really well… I can access it fine, browse through to see my sitemaps/paperUI etc with no issues.

I can expose items to myopenhab instance and see those items in the items view etc.

My next step is to look at integrating both Alexa and IFTTT. This is where I’ve hit a bit of a stumbling block. When I try to connect IFTTT or enable the Alexa skill i’m automatically re-directed to the myopenhab.org login. Is there anyway for me to make this use my own instance? I have a dedicated server running to host all of my “webapps”, including various Alexa Skills such as one that allows me to voice control my kodi players running under either Node.JS or Python, and I’m using this same server to host my openhab-cloud instance.

Any hints/tips/pointers greatly appreciated

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I don’t think you can do it with the standard IFTTT channel. You will have to use the Maker Channel which lets you make standard REST API calls. You will probably need to use Basic Auth though in your REST calls.

I don’t know anything about Alexa but would not be surprised if it has the same limitations.

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If you use the openHAB in IFTTT, it will point back to myopenhab.org because that’s where the callback is pointed to. If you want it to point to your own instance, you will need to create your own IFTTT service.