SmartThings and Alexa can play Grand Piano

[adawalli (Adam)]

Using @MichaelS’s Excellent Alexa Helper

[RELEASE] Alexa Helper

All, Be sure to read this thread…newer version is listed below Been quiet lately installing more Echo’s in the house along with the V2 hub. Everything is good and I am taking a more ST approach to my homes, getting rid if IP devices and replacing them with ST compatible items (Samsung SmartCams replacing DropCams, a ZWave garage door opener instead of Chamberlain’s model, etc). Anyway, I am 100% in to home automation. As such, I re-looked at my Alexa Helper app. ST has been a bit slow in reviewing submitted apps, so I took an opportunity to update this app. One of the limitations of the platform is the inability to have more than 4 scheduled items within an app. To get around this, you must install the app multiple times. In the original Alexa Helper there were 6 slots, but only 4 that …

I was able to chain together Alexa, SmartThings and my wife’s grand piano in under an hour. My wife is starting to like smart things after all…

Amazon Echo Dot (Alexa) plays grand piano

In case anyone is interested.
The piano has QRS PNOMATION II, which uses servos/actuators to handle the piano portion. This exposes control through a webserver. You normally browse to the IP address of the piano, and it exposes a web-based smart app.

I sniffed the traffic going to the web-server from the smart app, and dropped this into the HTTP GET section of Alexa Helper.

[MichaelS (Micheal)]

Nicely done!