Thanks Micheal. What would you recommend. Doing the household or just resigning developer account using the same account I have all my Echos devices setup on. Just means I have to redo the app setup stuff and lambda again.
Thanks
Actually, the Lambda has nothing to do with this…you will use the same ARN number, but I do recommend you simply create a developer account that is the same as your normal Alexa account. In addition, the app can remain the same…it is just the developer section, so you WILL have to create the intent, utterances and fill the slots.
Hey all,
I’ve been using helper perfectly for a year. Last night- my sleep and this morning my awake momentary buttons stopped working. My non-Alexa helper momentary buttons work fine still. These sleep and awake buttons trigger hue dimmer, IFTTTT sequences, dimmers, home monitoring etc. nothing in ST was changed in in ther interim. Any idea what’s going on?
I got a note that ST was doing a code upgrade…could you have been affected by that? What if you press the buttons by themselves in the app…do the automations work?
Have you gone into the app and ensured the buttons are still associated with the actions? I recommend going into the IDE and reloading the latest code. Is there anything in Live Logging to indicate what is happening?
No idea what to say. Just got home again and everything is working fine. My logs won’t load into last night and this morning- I think the new updates are being pushed now.
When I try to add scenarios now in Alexa helper, I’m able to add all the info until I get to adding the scenario “switch state reacts to” button and it shuts down my SmartThings app. Even in scarios previously added that work, it shuts my app down. Any thoughts?
Thanks
Funny how the world works…After leaving Alexa Helper to focus on Ask Alexa, Amazon has put a feature in that now brings Alexa Helper back into the spotlight…Amazon Routines. This new functionality allows for you to create CUSTOM NATIVE commands and run small ‘scripts’. The issue is that these scripts are rather limited and you still can’t do things like lock and close doors. However, by having the routine flip a virtual switch, you can have Alexa Helper run a full scenario of items.
I am porting this concept over to Ask Alexa to allow for even MORE control. Be on the look out for it in the next couple weeks, but until then, I wanted to make people aware (again) of Alexa Helper as this may give you what you want for the full control over your environment!
I finally update the app after a LOOOONG time. My issues is that I added and deleted some device from my ST. I went into the helper and added the new one. However when I go back to my Alexa App the old ones are still there and the new ones are not. Again it has been a while since I have updated this so am I missing something
When you sat that you go into the Alexa app, do you mean the Amazon one? Or the SmartThings app? Can you share screenshots? and highlight some of this?
There are different contexts here. There is the SmartThings Alexa Helper, which is the app I designed. There is the SmartThings Alexa app, where you select the devices within your SmartThings environment that you want the device to recognize, and then there is the Amazon Alexa app, which is outside of SmartThings, but show you hat it heard and does a lot of the home automation routines and such.