Smartthings Alexa

Devices & Integrations
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Hi,
I have connected smartthings (I have a hub) with Alexa, i can see the devices but i have a couple of problems

  1. in the Alexa app I can’t see the routines created on smartthings app
  2. in smarthings app I can see 4 philips Hue lamps as “associated device” but I could not do anything with these, neither switch on or off…
    Any help
    Ciao
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Alexa can trigger Scenes or control individual devices. It’s never, to my knowledge, supported running SmartThings automations other than Scenes.

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You can create a virtual switch with vDev Controller which can be used to trigger a ST routine and Alexa can switch it on or off. The ST routine can also turn off the virtual switch at the end of the routine with a time delay.

In this example I can say “Alexa, turn on shutdown”. Multiple devices will be turned off and the shutdown virtual switch is reset to off after 5 seconds…

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Thanks that is a good work around

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Hi,
i thought that virtual switch could solve my problem but it seems that I could not create that
Do you think this is possible? my be due to Italian app?
I could not understand
Please help me
Ciao

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Do you have a SmartThings hub?

If you do there are 2 community created Edge Drivers that will create an Alexa virtual Switch. One is the vEdge Creator.

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Thanks, it works fine, I have an hub since 3 weeks, this is the first ED I use, it seems to have a world to discover…