The “momentary button tile” in the IDE is a simulated device type. There’s no physical device associated with it, just a tile on the things screen. That’s what I’m using.
Here’s my complete set up:
Updated 12 November 2015 after Amazon added “Triggers” to their IFTTT Channel for Alexa
As valuable as I personally found this project, and as much as I learned in doing it, as of 12 November 2015 it’s now no longer necessary.
Amazon has added verbal triggers to their IFTTT channel. So you can say anything you want to as a trigger to Alexa and use that as the “if” for an IFTTT recipe, and have that trigger anything that has an IFTTT “that” channel. So SmartThings, Philips Hue, Harmony activities, etc. No virtual switches needed, no synch issues.
It really is that easy.
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