What would be cool is to enable that presence sensor to behave as a switch also. There are VP sensors out there that can do this and they can be used within IFTTT.
For instance, If babysitter unlocks the door, enable switch on ‘babysitter’ which is your presence switch. This way I can have it both ways by either telling Alexa that the babysitter is present our allowing IFTTT do it for me.
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This is a great idea… And actually can accessed be done, but with a lot of configuration. I’ll look at making it simpler.
The Notification add-on is about to become the most flexible scheduling app since these changes occurred:
“Cron schedules should be are more resilient in the case of failure.” (this has been largely underutilized since March 2016… but THAT is about to change …)
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My apologies, I thought I replied to an earlier thread.
I have automated curtains in my bedroom.
I also have a ‘Bedroom’ profile I can use to turn on the bedroom lights. I’ve created a custom group to also handle my bedside lamps (“Alexa, turn on the lamps in the bedroom”).
I would like the ability to open/close my bedroom curtains from within this profile. Currently the only way to open/close my curtains is with “Alexa, tell home to open/close the curtains”).
I would much rather say “Alexa, open the curtains in my bedroom” or “Open the curtains” as a follow up to another command within the bedroom profile.
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Yes you did, I apologize. Things are moving super fast and some things do get over looked.
I am following up on this simple request: Most of this might be learning on my part but how would I get this profile ‘Living Room’ to trigger a core to follow up with the host of actions involved in triggering all the stuff I want to do when watching a move in my living room.
I got that and my apologies for not articulating my question better. I guess I am more questioning how the profile interacts with the invocation.
my profile is named movienight and the invocation is movie night.
I see lots of examples where you say things like “Has Barkley Been Fed” and you get the desired result. Relating back to your example (Barkley) what is the profile name and what is the invocation because I feel my thinking is too rigid and I am not creating invocations and/or profile needs to speak naturally.
I would simply like to sit down and say “Alexa, start a family movie” and have the profile execute in the core.
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Hi Justin…
Try this.
Create a Profile name “Movie Time”
Create your AWS skill for the child profile
Invocation name “Movie Time”
In CoRE, choose that profile as your trigger for your Piston
Now, when you sit down, just say…
Alexa, tell Movie Time to start.
This will fire the Profile which will in turn fire your Piston
The confusing part of the wiki is the examples where the user states things that seem to have nothing to do with the invocation or the profile. Again, “Has Barkley been fed?” or the example with putting Moira to bed.
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ok, I understand…
Maybe this will help.
For the “Moira is going to bed”
The Invocation name is “Moira”
The Profile name is “Moira”
So, when I say, “Alexa, tell Moira xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx” The profile is triggered. It’s just like I sent a message, but I do not choose a message output. It just fires the profile and executes the profile actions.
but THAT is about to change …)