All, this is a new thread from my conversation in the Alexa Helper area ( [RELEASE] Alexa Helper ) I am officially announcing my new Ask Alexa Smart App. This is what a lot of us have been looking for when it was announced that SmartThings would work with the Amazon Echo (‘Alexa’). Unfortunately, the…

Your idea of creating a simple Do piston helped me solve the problem. I was able to execute a Do piston so I knew the messages were passing. I ended up just rebuilding the other pistons and all works now, even with the conditions. Something in the transfer messed up the execution of the pistons with…

Mmichaelahess … Well you can always plug each Dot into a smart switch module or outlet and command Alexa on the other one to shut down the power to the first dot. :wink: (you could even have it turn it back on, I don’t think it would resume playing).

Yep and works. Now to figure out how to have her announce the alarm is armed when a door opens :slight_smile:

[image] Jsh4ster: Now to figure out how to have her announce the alarm is armed when a door opens Without a voice command? You can query her but she will never respond to external triggers outside of voice.

[image] MichaelS: she will never respond to external triggers outside of voice. Hmmm, I am determined to prove you wrong!!! :slight_smile: With or without CoRE…

Let me know if you can make that happen (and don’t hack it like @N8XD :))

[image] Jsh4ster: Now to figure out how to have her announce the alarm is armed when a door opens Maybe you could do something like this outside of Ask Alexa and use a different smartapp like LANnouncer , BigTalker ?

Awwwwwh! Mine isn’t hacked. I just use VLC Thing to trick alexa into saying and doing stuff! Ok…well, maybe it’s hacked. :wink: I actually do something like that dalec, I put headphones on the Dot’s and and have external microphones plus a VLC thing (connected through a mixer) that talks throu…

I have an iPhone and no android devices in the house. I hate the idea of buying more stuff to make things work.

Yeah but then once this beast becomes self aware, Alexa will try to setup a Last Destination scenario when I tell her to kill one of her children…

Well if you ask Alexa if she’s part of Skynet, she tells you not to worry… I trust her.

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dalec (Dale C) June 10, 2016, 4:02pm 1157

Maybe you could do something like this outside of Ask Alexa and use a different smartapp like LANnouncer, BigTalker?

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