I use a Virtual switch to keep track of the state of my Garage Door (i.e. Is the Door Open or Closed). The problem is Alexa will not discover the Virtual Switch.
I was using the HABridge and Vera to create virtual switches that could be controlled by Alexa. That stopped working yesterday, so I’m trying to move the virtual switches over to OpenHab2.4.
I installed the OpenHab skill in the Alexa app and added a virtual switch to the Items file per the documentation (which is a bit different than what is listed above):
Switch Movie "Movie" {alexa="Switchable"}
I then tried to get Alexa to discover the new devices and the switch doesn’t appear.
I now discovered it, too. (in documentation for latest version)
Version 3 of the Alexa Skill API introduces a more rich and complex set of features that required a change in how items are configured by using the new metadata feature introduced in openaHAB 2.3