jeshab
December 17, 2021, 3:50pm
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madshi:
However, I still have the same problem I always had, namely that shutters are not properly assigned to the room they’re in. E.g. if I’m in the bedroom and say “close shutter” then it actually closes the shutter in the bathroom. I have to say “close shutter in bedroom” to make Alexa close the correct shutter.
This room assignment works great for lamps and switches, but for shutters it doesn’t seem to work properly. Any hope to have that fixed at some point?
Your assessment is spot on. Unfortunately, the room awareness feature is handled on the Alexa side and we have no control at the skill level. So there is not much that can be done other than implement the workaround below using the Amazon Echo Control binding.
Currently, the Alexa room awareness feature (aka Alexa-enabled groups) is derived from the majority of the current display categories . So, until Amazon adds new categories, there is no way to address devices not part of that list (e.g. fans) via that feature.
Thanks to the Amazon Echo Control binding lastVoiceCommand channel and a proxy Alexa-linked activity item, we can mimic that feature from the OH side for unsupported categories.
The definitions below set the room awareness portion. This s…
