I have several of the Samsung ST Door sensors and several moisture sensors which have been working with the HE for months. I have added the HE Alexa skill (and deleted the earlier HE Alexa App) and shared all these sensors. Alexa (Echo Dot) has the HE skill but "Alexa, Discover Devices" has never worked in that it says it cannot find anything. The Alexa mobile app seems to find things like my Sonos speakers and also the ST door sensors but not the moisture sensors. Please can anyone offer some advice?
Make sure your Echo is logged to the master account. Say "Alexa, who am I "
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These are not currently supported in Hubitat's Alexa Skill.
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@aaiyar is correct. Moisture sensors are not supported, nor are temperature and humidity sensors. Only motion sensors and contact sensors are currently supported, to the best of my knowledge.
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To add to @ogiewon's response, because moisture sensors are binary (wet/dry), one can use RM to map the wet/dry status of a physical moisture sensor to a virtual contact sensor as open/close. That virtual contact sensor can be exposed to the Alexa Skill and used in Alexa Routines in lieu of the physical moisture sensor.
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Thanks I will try that. So far I have only managed to use Alexa to entertain our grandson by answering questions on geography. All the stuff it's supposed to be able to do doesn't seem to work.
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What types of things would you like Alexa to do? The community members here will gladly assist you in explaining how to get things to work if it's possible.
The number 1 use-case for voice control is probably turning on/off and adjusting smart lights (either via smart switches/dimmers or smart bulbs.) This works extremely well for me using Alexa devices. I also use 'Alexa Routines' to help integrate other cloud solutions with Hubitat (e.g. my Ring Video Doorbell.)
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Starting late last week, I periodically (and randomly) use your Alexa TTS to announce, "Diesel! Stop bugging Allie."
Diesel's a young rambunctious male cat, Allie is an old lady who might have to be put down very soon.
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Yeah, I'm sure that works well. I use the whole house announce function to tell my dog to stop barking (without me getting out of bed) in the middle of the night. Worked first two times. Oh well.
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Your dog is smarter than Diesel (thank God for small mercies).
I think you may have missed the main point.
Now he ignores me as I suspect your cat does as well.
Nah - Diesel is feral (and young). He still gets startled when a random speaker yells at him. That's why I'm glad your dog is smarter than Diesel!
I was hoping to be able to check that our basement door is dead bolted from my arm chair. I have devised a way of doing this through a single voltage free contact with the existing locks (I have got an Ecolink ZWave sensor for this). Also to double check the status of the moisture sensors which I already have rigged up to Hubitat RM. But if I can't use the temperature sensing features of the Samsungs with Alexa I am more likely to try using the Get interface and deploy a spare Android device with a display (a bit like the Dashboards but these have limited flexibility) to act as a GUI.
I originally bought Alexa to go with my Sonos speakers and NAS but this has never worked and it could be because Alexa's support for NAS drives is missing/limited? As I design technology for a living (including BLE low power sensors) I quickly tire of spending too much time investigating here today, gone tomorrow technologies so I gave up on that one and use the phone app, which Sonos has now crippled on anything below Android 7 with an "upgrade"...
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