[openWebNet/BTicino] openHAB3

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Hi Robert,

Thanks for your contributions. :+1: I added your two latest blogs to the list of useful links.

I have voice control but have a more general approach. Note: I always use text files for configuration.

I set an Alexa tag as mode control on a proxy item. Then you can command Alexa to set the proxy item to any ‘mode’ you want. The change of mode for a proxy item can then trigger and openHAB rule and even detect what mode was requested.

Group NorthLights                                   "North lights"                                                                              {alexa="Endpoint.LIGHT"}
    String NorthLights_Command                      "North lights command [%s]"                                     (NorthLights)               {alexa="ModeController.mode" [supportedModes="ON=ON,OFF=OFF,CONSTANT=CONSTANT"], expire="4h,command=NORMAL"}
    Switch NorthLights_Switch                       "North lights switch"                       <light>             (NorthLights, gAllLights)   {alexa="PowerController.powerState", channel="openwebnet:bus_on_off_switch:gateway:22:switch"}

To make voice commands more natural I also create an Alexa routine that translates a nice phrase or multiple phrases to the ‘mode’ . This also means you can create nice Alexa voice responses to your command for a mode to be set and direct the response to different Alexas. A further refinement is to create an Alexa openHAB device as a group with various capabilities. Then when setting up the routine you are presented the capbilities and the options for the grouped device.

You get Alexa to run any device or scenario this way using more natural phrases

If like me you have various ways to trigger the openHAB rule then the following is useful to log which item triggered the rule

import org.openhab.core.model.script.ScriptServiceUtil

rule "Outside north lights"
when
    Channel "openwebnet:bus_cenplus_scenario_control:gateway:CENPLUS10:button#25" triggered //Screen10 SHORT_PRESS
    or Item NorthLights4hrs_CENplus_proxy received command 'PRESSED' //Sitemap
    or Item NorthLights_Command received command 'CONSTANT' //Alexa command
then

    val list = ScriptServiceUtil.getItemRegistry.getItems(triggeringItemName)
    val triggering_item = list.get(0)	
    logInfo('Lights', 'Triggering item = ' + triggering_item.label.toString )
    if (receivedCommand == "CONSTANT") {
        logInfo("Alexa" , 'North lights voice command received: '+  receivedCommand)
    }
    logInfo("Lights" , 'Outside north lights constant mode started')


.............do stuff...............

Log for voice command

2023-01-01 12:23:02.126 [INFO ] [org.openhab.core.model.script.Lights] - Triggering item = North lights command

2023-01-01 12:23:02.128 [INFO ] [org.openhab.core.model.script.Alexa ] - North lights voice command received: CONSTANT

2023-01-01 12:23:02.129 [INFO ] [org.openhab.core.model.script.Lights] - Outside north lights constant mode started
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