Amazon Alexa This is NOT the Athom Alexa Skill which allows Alexa to talk to Homey With this app you can allow Homey to talk to Alexa, literally and figuratively. [image] Alexa | Homey Control your amazon devices from Homey. Alexa Text to Speech, (60 other voices to do text to speech with), Alexa Announcements, Alexa Whisper Weather, News, Traffic, Good Morning/Night reports, Trigger Alexa routines, play music, play sounds, add alexa smart home devices to homey Donate Help me buy a homey to create this and other apps on. Version 5 The app has been re-written to work on the new SDK in version 5, this means that many fundamentals have changed, however you should see a “the same or better” experience. Features Servers Amazon US server Amazon EU server Amazon Far East server Devices Echo Echo Gen1 Echo Gen2 Echo Gen3 Echo Dot Gen1 Echo Dot Gen2 Echo Dot Gen3 Echo Plus Gen1 Echo Plus Gen2 Echo Spot Gen1 Echo Show Gen1 Echo Show Gen2 Fire Fire Tablet HD10.7 Third Party Ecobee Sonos One Sonos Beam Netgear Orbi Voice Smart Home See FAQ for known issue Add Alexa smart home plugs as devices to Homey Add Alexa smart home lights as devices to Homey Capabilities Reports Weather Traffic News Stop Media Volume Play Pause Previous/Next Track Artist Album Playing Random duration repeat Flows Triggers Account When Account Connects When Account Authorized When Account Disconnects When Account Unauthorized Actions Reports Good Morning Good Night Weather Traffic News Good News Voice Alexa Says {something} Alexa Announces {something} Alexa Whispers {something} Simon Says {something} on Alexa Device * Homeys voice is “Brian” Simon Announces {something} on Alexa Device Simon Whispers {something} on Alexa Device * *Echo devices only Choose from 60 other voices to say or whisper {something} *** Not all voices can whisper Calendar Alexa says todays calendar Alexa says tomorrows calendar Alexa say the next calendar entry Fun Alexa tell a story Alexa sing a song Alexa give a fun fact Alexa say a joke Alexa help clean up Phrases Alexa Confirm Alexa Compliment Alexa I’m Home Alexa Goodbye Alexa Birthday Sounds Play one of inbuilt sounds on an alexa device Music Play music from spotify based upon text sentence to an alexa device Play music from amazon music based upon text sentence to an alexa device Play music from I Heart Radio based upon text sentence to an alexa device Play music from TuneIn based upon text sentence to an alexa device DND Turn on/off do not disturb mode App Languages English (AU) You can create a flow which can send ‘text’ to any Alexa enabled device and ‘she’ will then repeat that text, including any tags then there is a quite bit more that can be done. Status Latest State Testing whether the app stays connected the alexa and TTS continues working with out app/homey restarts. Supports [CB459506241] Notes Please note that this app now only supports v7. Currently only limited testing has been done upon ‘alexa mutli room music groups’ ie “everywhere” this may or may not be supported. Using After installing, to add a new Device, click + (add) upon the devices tab select “Amazon Alexa Device”. Likely a popup will open asking for you to log into your amazon alexa account. You will receive a message stating its now ok to close the popup, and a loading screen will show. The loading screen may stay for up to a minute, but once completed your alexa devices will be shown. Click on which devices you would like to add to Homey. Possible Uses Possible Uses is hard as there is so much you could do with it. It is all about integrating Alexa into your smart home. (Rather than your smart home into alexa). Anything from Create a flow so that any time homey speaks - it also gets said upon all echo devices, so the entire house can hear it. Through to if it s a weekday before midday and your presence is detected in the bathroom, turn on the light and exhaust fan and play today weather on alexa. After which if when the vibration sensor is triggered on the stairs, play todays news flash briefing. When the contact sensor on the mail box is triggered create a reminder at 7pm that night to all devices “Please check the mail box”. When owntracks presence tracks me leaving the office and its after 5pm and alexa Text to speech say ‘Jamie has left the office, with current traffic he will be home in 50 minutes’ , then play ride of the Valkyries on all devices. When the bedroom light is turned off and everyone is in bed , if a perimeter window is not closed have Alexa announce through the spot alarm clock that the ‘house is not secure’. When ever homey speaks, have the same voice repeated across all your amazon enabled devices Control/Add devices to homey which may have an alexa skill but not a Homey app. For me personally, I have only one Homey where has I have half a dozen alexa devices in most rooms and they can speak, let me know the traffic, weather, news, etc alarms or reminders, announcements or notices, whats on my calendar. And now I can have any of these features with in a flow. Other Otherwise everything else is as advertised in the post, hit me up on Slack (@jamie) if you have any questions or issues. Items show in this post (and only this post) are confirmed to work. Bugs When adding multiple Dot (gen3) the app errors ‘unable to add as device already exists’ Clicking stop when weather is being reported will not stop the weather on all devices. ie. Dot (gen2) - works for Echo Plus (gen1) Smart devices are not currently working Known Issues Smart devices added to homey will not sync there state, ie. they not show whether they are on/off correctly. - Likely involves polling once every 5 minutes to sync Media/Speaker capabilities will not work if a music group has been used with the speaker. If you don’t select the correct server to connect to, many features will not work or will be delayed. IF you have MFA turned on, and your connecting the app may show a ‘page not found’ error page. Solution: you must go into your Amazon account via web browser and enable 2 factor authentication. Then use an authenticator such as Google Authenticator, problem solved. Use the code that comes through the authenticator app, not the one that Amazon texts to you. Hope this helps. Images |Step 1|Step 2|Step 3|Step 4|Step 5|Profit|| |—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—| | [image]|[image]|[image]|[image]|[image]|[image]|…|||

Making it harder or impossible? As I’m just a “user”, I would like to ask you what your opinion in this matter is…. Do things like that happen often and do you think that problem ( which is obviously coming from Amazon) will get sorted in near future? Sorry for wasting your time :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Hi Toby, until yesterday I was having exactly the same issues as you, but after updating the Echo app and logging in again, everything got fixed. Since then, I haven’t had any disconnections, and to be honest, my Echo even seems a bit more responsive to Homey commands. It’s quite strange though, because I’m in Italy and, if I’m not mistaken, you’re in Germany so I’d rule out any server-related issues. Are you sure you didn’t change something in your configuration and now can’t log in properly? Regards Luca.

Ciao Luca Thank you for your message. I’m glad to hear that your system is back to business :star_struck: Unfortunately I’m still not able to re-connect to the server. I guess you are using the echo app. I’m apparently using the Alexa app. I heard they are actually using the same login protocols so I don’t know why I’m not able to re-connect🤷🏼 [1000184904]

I just tried to login with the echo app. Works fine here as well !

just to confirm are you using the Amazon Echo app? we’re talking about the Alexa app. I haven’t had any issues so far with the Amazon Echo app yet but its still early days. I’ll likely have both the Alexa app and Amazon Echo homey app running. I’ll use the Amazon Echo app if my announcements fails or it loses connection to Amazon. the reason why i went with echo speakers is at the time i got all of them they were really cheap to cover my house, garage and backyard. the sonos app is reliable but its just way too expensive buy to cover my house, garage and backyard. hopefully the upcoming black friday sales i can get maybe 1 or 2 if im lucky and that should be ok to use as a backup.

Great news, Toby! The only thing I don’t understand is, if they’re using the same system, why does one keep not working while the other solves all the problems?

Not really great actually :joy: I want to get back to the Alexa app as I have lots of other alexa devices and lots of flows within that app. 818c4a31-5b82-4419-be30-6752e4ebfee5

Yes, I saw the huge list of your devices! Let’s hope it gets resolved :crossed_fingers:

there’s a slight difference between them. this one can add different devices whereas the Amazon Echo has the option for only Echo devices and groups. you will see that on the app page. i suspect the code will differ. can’t really comment on whether jamie has use the same library as the other Amazon Echo app which connects to the same servers. he did mention last year that he was. https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-alexa/8356/1986?u=loy80y

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Yes, I have problems with the Alexa app.

The echo app works fine

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