NEW: Alexa IFTTT Triggers As of November 12, 2015, there are now two official ways to integrate Alexa and SmartThings. The first way is fast and simple, and can do any one thing that you can do in the official SmartThings IFTTT channel. You pick any phrase you want to use, and use that as the “if…

[image] Tonto: Can the Echo be used as a siren for SmartHomeMonitor, and for spoken alerts such as Alarm On and Alarm Off? For spoken alerts, usually a device has to support a feature called “text to speech” (TTS). The short answer to your question is no, at the present time Amazon does not…

[image] Tonto: Can the Echo be used as a siren for SmartHomeMonitor, and for spoken alerts such as Alarm On and Alarm Off The long answer to this is no. The short answer is that you can connect a Bluetooth phone or tablet to Alexa and have it play TTS notification… It’s a hack.

Except I see on the status page today that customized text to speech is broken right now. :disappointed_relieved: Hopefully they’ll fix it soon. http://status.smartthings.com [image]

Thanks for the responses. I’ve just seen the below, so maybe Amazon are working to bring it to Echo anyway [image] Amazon will reportedly bring spoken notifications to Alexa and the Echo If a new report from The Information is accurate, Amazon is planning to update the Alexa assistant fo…

[image] Tonto: Thanks for the responses. I’ve just seen the below, so maybe Amazon are working to bring it to Echo anyway Amazon will reportedly bring spoken notifications to Alexa and the Echo - The Verge Current discussion for that feature: [image] Push notifications com…

Will SmartThings ever update their Alexa integration? Currently its really fast but saying turn on and turn off means it’s limited. Can you use it to trigger a Core Piston?

[image] RZR666: Will SmartThings ever update their Alexa integration? Currently its really fast but saying turn on and turn off means it’s limited. Can you use it to trigger a Core Piston? The turn on and turn off construction is a limitation on the Amazon side if you don’t want to have it …

I’ve got AskAlexa setup which is great but I find executing a command is faster with the official integration. Hopefully Amazon will open up more commands to SmartThings in future.

FAQ: Amazon Echo: The Official SmartThings Integration is here! (Initial SetUp FAQ)

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FAQ: Amazon Echo: The Official SmartThings Integration is here! (Initial SetUp FAQ)

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