I currently use Alexa for my home automation but as you know it is limited. I am thinking of migrating to Homey Pro, but looking for some advice before I do. In Alexa I have a routine that given a voice command turned off all my lights when I go to bed. This works fine. I have on the landing a Hue motion sensor which when movement is detected the lamps on the landing come on, and when no motion is detected after one minute, they turn off. Again, this works fine. This routine is programmed to run from 10pm until 06:30 everyday. Ideally what I want is to run the routine that turns all my lights off in the evening and then activates the Hue landing sensor routine. Is this possible with Homey and what do I need to do to set this up? Thanks for you understanding. I am new to this arena. I have no scripting knowledge whatsoever so this will be a slow process. What would you suggest I use for voice commands, etc. Thanks in advance
Homey doesn’t support voice commands directly, so I’d continue using Alexa for that. Homey comes with a free Alexa skill that allows you to run Homey flows (Homey’s name for routines).
I don’t have any Hue devices, so can’t help with that part.
Andy
Would a flow allow for me to turn off the lights and activate the sensor on the landing then disable the sensor at sunrise. I have a routine in Alexa to run the sensor from 10pm every recieving but I need a more flexible approach. Sorry to ask so many questions, but Honey is expensive so I need to be sure it’s right for me.
Sure it’s possible.
Literally disabling a sensor is not possible for many sensors, but you can just use a virtual switch, which can stop the sensor triggered flow(s) from running.
Example:
Sensor Eethoek OnOff is a virtual switch, which I can operate manually and by other flows; when it’s turned off, the flow will not continue:
You can have it turn off automatically in an other flow with the sunrise trigger.
And you can have it turn on with any flow.
Thinking more about it, you can do that directly in Alexa, use customised commands:
- enable xxx routine
- disable xxx routine
to enable and disable the Alexa routine that processes alerts from your motion detector.
Andy
I can set up several routines with different start times and it’s voice commands to enable and disable the routines. The one thing I cannot do is activate the sensor when I say “goodnight”. I cannot add this to the goodnight routine. It is not supported in Alexa.
