Is there a fairly simple way getting alexa to open and close garage door. Haven’t really found much on the topic. I have a golinear zwave controller for the garage door.
I use stringify with the words close garage and it locks my August lock and closes my garage door. Probably easier dropping a couple icons on a flow. Only issue is you have to say tell stringify.
I used to have alexa doing it. But the amount of work involved in upkeep of that function was greater than the work involved in pressing a button on my way out the door, which if I’m opening the garage is occurring anyway… so it was cool for two months but utterly unnecessary. So it’s gone.
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Not directly due to security reasons. You can use a modified device handler to get Alexa to control it using turn Garage Door “On” or “Off”
See this topic for details
Alternatively you can use the Ask Alexa app, this is a replacement for Alexa per se and can do a lot more than Alexa like controlling locks etc which Alexa cannot do but beware that it bypasses security restrictions.
I think now we have a much safer and easier integration option. All it takes is to add the Lock capability to the device driver. I did that to my MIMOlite Garage Door Opener so I can ask Alexa to lock/unlock garage door now. Alexa will ask me for a pass code when I try to unlock, a nice safety feature.
@JDRoberts@rontalley so from what I just read, if I add switch capability to the device handler that I’m using I should be able to create the routine in Alexa to turn the door on to actuate my relay? I’m pasting the code that I’m using below:
Sorry to drag up an old thread, but how does one make the Iris GoControl act like a lock to Alexa so that you have to say a 4 digit passcode to open it? It doesn’t seem to be explained here and my searches only find this thread and very old threads.
Alexa allows me to unlock my front door now this way, hoping to do the same with my garage door opener.