I hunted for a IR blaster to work with smart things but found none. So i took a punt on this. Thought I could control and fan and TV using smartthings routines and some virtual switches to trigger alexa routines. However I have installed smartlife and configured the ir blaster (works ok from app)…

[image] Declankh: The device claims to work with alexa but no devices show up. Most similar devices work with Alexa through Scenes (except for air conditioners and lightbulbs, which can use a predefined set of Alexa commands), not by having the device itself show up in Alexa. You might try th…

yes I have installed it, should have stated that

[image] Declankh: I hunted for a IR blaster to work with smart things but found none. There are a couple, but most require doing A fairly clunky integration like creating scenes in the IR blaster’s app and then getting to those through either Alexa routines or IFTTT. For example, you can use…

Ok. Then It is hard to say what problem might be. I only have one device using SmartLife skill. I can’t remember how Alexa finds new devices from SmartLife :thinking:

Great, that works, I created two scenes in smartlife and they are exposed in alexa. Should be possible to build a ST routine then based on a switch to start the scene in alexa. A little clunky but it should work.

[image] Declankh: Great, that works, I created two scenes in smartlife and they are exposed in alexa. Should be possible to build a ST routine then based on a switch to start the scene in alexa. A little clunky but it should work. Glad it worked! BTW, you are limited to a total of 99 routi…

The scenes you created in SmartLife will probably show up in Smartthings. That would eliminate the need to use Alexa as a middleman. But I don’t have a Tuya IR blaster so I can not say for sure. Rerun your Tuya integration in ST and see if the scenes show up. Let us know what you find.

This so nearly works. The Tuya integration spots the two scenes I created. They appear as “devices” not scenes in Smartthings However they are offline and cannot be executed. [image]

I know of 2 ways to wake them up. create a ST scene with both switches. Operate it once and they will wake up. You can then delete the ST scene. use the ST web portal ( my.smartthings.com ) and toggle the switches once and they will wake up. You only need to wake them up once and you are good…

Thanks, I tried both and neither work unfortunately. the dont appear in the list to select to add to a scene the switches appear in the portal but show as offline and cant be toggled.

That is too bad it didn’t work, because that method usually makes a very reliable integration. Initially the Tuya devices scenes always appear offline in the ST portal. But will appear online after you wake them up. Did you open the device tiles in the web portal and push the button inside a few t…

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Declankh April 25, 2022, 10:05pm 12

Thanks,
I tried both and neither work unfortunately.

the dont appear in the list to select to add to a scene
the switches appear in the portal but show as offline and cant be toggled.

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