openHAB Skill for Amazon Alexa: New Device-Centric Metadata Syntax

A new minor release 3.1.1 has been rolled out to the live skill.

New Features

  • The skill is now officially available for Arabic (SA).

  • Supported item types for the range value attribute has been extended to all Number with dimension items.

  • For color temperature customer integration, its item state (Number only) can now be configured to be reset on set color requests.

  • Support for string-based channel has been introduced. This now requires String item to include the channel mappings which breaks the previous integration for such item.

  • Support for channel step adjustment mimicking up/down arrow keys has been added.

  • Support for volume and mute step adjustments have been revamped in line with the new channel step attribute. This new implementation is breaking the previous step speaker integration backward compatibility.

Bug Fixes

  • Window covering devices are now showing the proper control page in the Alexa app. (#417)

Main UI

All the changes listed above will not be reflected in the openHAB 3.2 UI requiring to use the code tab until 3.3 is released. However, these will be available in the 3.3 snapshot shortly.

Documentation

As usual, the documentation can be find here.

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