I've been using the Amazon Echo Skill to access Hubitat devices from Alexa for a few years now, but I now need to access the temperature and motion sensors built into the latest gen Echo and Dot devices. Does such a driver or app exist to allow Hubitat to access Alexa devices?
As far as I know, there’s no driver available to get this information. It might be possible to setup a routine to turn on/off a switch/sensor device that is shared from Hubitat to Alexa when motion is detected or not.
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Have not tried this with built in motion sensors, but I use it for my doorbell that integrates to Alexa and it works to get the status over to HE.
Getting the temperature from Alexa over to HE is not possible I am afraid. There is no way to mirror the numerical info into a virtual device. The best you could do is setup a virtual switch to turn on / off at preset temps.
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I wonder if there would be some way to set a dimmer to a dimming level equivalent to the temperature…?
The Echo Speaks community app creates devices in Hubitat for the echos and they have lots of attributes. I don’t have any of the new ones with temp and humidity so I don’t know if those attributes are available on those echos but here is all the info I can get of my older echos
Current States
- alarmVolume : 30
- alexaPlaylists : {}
- alexaWakeWord : ALEXA
- audioTrackData : {}
- btDeviceConnected : None Connected
- btDevicesPaired : {"names":[]}
- currentAlbum : Idle
- currentStation : Idle
- deviceFamily : ECHO
- deviceIcon :
- deviceSerial :G0911M06922513SM
- deviceStatus :stopped_echo_dot_gen3
- deviceStyle : Echo Dot (Gen3)
- deviceType : A1RABVCI4QCIKC
- doNotDisturb : false
- firmwareVer : 8960323972
- followUpMode : false
- lastAnnouncement : NA
- lastSpeakCmd : NA
- lastSpokenToTime :1632271144049
- lastUpdated : May 4, 2023 - 7:41:43 AM
- lastVoiceActivity : NA
- level : 30
- mediaSource : NA
- mute : unmuted
- onlineStatus : online
- permissions : [reminders, volumeControl, tuneInRadio, TTS, doNotDisturb, isMultiroomMember, microphone, isEchoDevice, flashBriefing, followUpMode, amazonMusic, spotify, alarms, bluetoothControl, announce, iHeartRadio, pandoraRadio, guardSupported, mediaPlayer, wakeWord]
- phraseSpoken : NA
- status : stopped
- supportedMusic : TuneIn, My Library, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio
- trackData : {}
- trackDescription : NA
- trackImage : NA
- trackImageHtml :
- volume : 30
- wakeWords :ALEXA,AMAZON,COMPUTER,ECHO,HEY_SAMUEL,HEY_SANTA,ZIGGY
- wasLastSpokenToDevice : false
Thanks to all of you for the great suggestions. I already use a virtual switch to pass info between Alexa and HE so I know that should work for motion detection. I'll let you know the results after I get a chance to try the recommended approaches for temperature.
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