spyd4r
March 4, 2018, 1:50am
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it’s so limited, will there ever be more “this” items added for use?
example… Smart Home Monitor events… even enabled, disabled, away, alarm active?
You can use it now to respond to pretty much anything that smartthings can do, but you have to use a virtual switch as a proxy.
If you just want something simple like a Mode changing, you can use the following method:
Echo and Google home only recognize some device classes, specifically lights, switches, thermostats , and maybe locks.
The official SmartThings/Alexa integration can run routines, but only routines that are limited to the device classes above.
IFTTT has the same issue. The SmartThings service/channel can turn a single device on or off, but it doesn’t show routines or modes or smart home monitor status.
So how can you use your voice assistant or IFTTT to change your mode, unlock a lock, or change smart home monitor armed status if the voice assistant/IFTTT won’t work with those kinds of devices?
Fortunately, it’s easy.
For anything more complex, use webcore to turn on the virtual switch.
CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.”
Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you.
For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog.
A lot of the integration you’re looking for might also be possible with Webhooks in IFTTT and WebCore here in ST.
The following video walk through should help webCoRE users trigger any action/piston by using “Alexa, trigger _____” In this video, I made a good night routine as a trigger, but literally it can be anything you want. The video shows how to use IFTTT...
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spyd4r
March 4, 2018, 2:19am
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i know all about webcore, but my yeelight lightstrip isn’t supported by smartthings so it doesn’t help me. I was looking to use IFTTT to make the lightstrip change colour depending on an action.
The actions available in any given IFTTT service are completely up to that individual company. So you would need to be talking to Yeelight about this one. It’s up to them to make the lightstrip available through their channel.
Lgkahn
March 4, 2018, 5:36am
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i find it usefull for two thing,’
alexa trigger find my phone
and having it flash lights when alexa timer goes off
rontalley
March 4, 2018, 3:38pm
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Didn’t know about this one. Thanks!
Nezmo
March 4, 2018, 4:24pm
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I tried in the days before I had ST and then when I first got ST but it’s just too laggy and unreliable to be of use to me. I have turned just about all my IFTTT stuff off.
diehllane
March 5, 2018, 1:26am
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I use this one for cooking all the time. I don’t hear the Alexa timer if I have the TV on, but I will see the blinking light.
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