bOS + Amazon Echo (Alexa)

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Ricardo Pinto
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Hello everyone,


Been testing Amazon Alexa here in Portugal with bOS, and so far so good.


I've noticed that in the first instructions (with bOS beta version) it says that we needed to create a VirtualLight or whatever as a reference to the Appliance, but I've tried to create the Appliance and add the reference of the direct circuit and it works.


Does anyone know why there are so few References in bOS Alexa integration? (ON OFF, Door, Percentage, Target temperature, Thermometer reference). Is it a limitation from Amazon?


I'm looking to do something like "lower up the office shutter", instead of using percentage for example...

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vanathi M S

hello,

I have Linux  PC

How would i install and work with boS?

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Ricardo Pinto

Off-topic: may I ask about the performance of Jigsaw, let's say in a small / medium sized project with lots of logic functions, some remote KNX devices, etc? (As I know the based hardware and I'm a little concerned).


About Alexa, assuming that Scene Reference is not working, if anyone needs to use scenes with Alexa:


- Create a Boolean to use as a trigger (call it for example Night scene)

- Create a scene with your devices

- Add that Boolean as trigger to the Scene (in Value choose True, and don't forget to choose Allow retrigger option)

- Go to Alexa and create an Appliance, and use the Boolean trigger as a device

- Then you can say "Alexa, turn on night scene" for example


Tested and working...

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ComfortClick Support

Hello,


the linux version of our Software is unavailable separately, it only comes pre-installed with our Jigsaw hardware.


Regards.

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vanathi M S
Dear Team,
 

I  want your Linux Software version.
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vanathi M S
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http://www.comfortclick.com/Alexa

Thank you sir

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ComfortClick Support
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Hello,


feel free to join our webinar tomorrow at 10 o'clock (CEST) where the full alexa integration will be explained.


Regards,

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Tilen Suhadolnik
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Hello,

Please let me know how to integrate alexa in comfort click.

http://www.comfortclick.com/Alexa

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vanathi M S
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I've successfully created several Appliances in bOS, and Alexa is working ok with them.


Now I'm trying to create a Scene on the API, but with no sucess, Amazon Alexa App doesn't find the device.


I've created a Scene on bOS (called TV mode), which runs ok manually on bOS. Then I created a Scene on Alexa API and linked the Scene Reference to the bOS Scene, and searched for the device within the Alexa App, but it doesn't show up. Do you have any experience with that?

Hello,

Please let me know how to integrate alexa in comfort click.

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vanathi M S

Hello,

Please let me know how to integrate alexa in comfort click.

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Tilen Suhadolnik

Hello,

available references are defined by Smart Home API from Amazon. They might be adding more of the functionality in the future.


Scenes are not working because there is a bug. It will be fixed in the next release.

Thank you for letting us know about it.


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