bOS + Amazon Echo (Alexa)
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...
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...