Alexa skill—possible to add contact sensors?

[Harry_Coolahan]

Amazon's API allows for adding contact sensors and motion sensors. Allowing users to ping with questions like, "Alexa, is the front door open?"

However, as I understand it this has to be enabled by the hub's Alexa skill. I'm trying to import the contact sensors from HE to Alexa without success.

Is this possible at this time? If not, is this feature being considered for the future?

[Ryan780]

Not possible in the current implementation.

Motion Sensors Not Discoverable by Alexa

Yeah we've been discussing this more, and are working up a plan to tackle it. Still not sure on the timeframe but its no longer at the bottom of the priority list.

[SmartHomePrimer]

You're going to have to wait for it. But if you are not opposed to adding Google Assistant Relay and using Samsung's cloud to perform the task, it's possible and works very well. I use it daily for announcements.

Alexa TTS via Google Assistant to SmartThings

Special thanks to @mike.maxwell and @keithcroshaw for inspiring this work, and to @ogiewon, @ghesp Greg Hesp and @cwwilson08 for the code necessary to make this possible. Just an important note if you have not had your morning coffee. This is about Alexa TTS, and yes it does use Google Assistant, strange as that seems, but that's primarily a way to activate a SmartThings DTH, and that will then be detected by Alexa to trigger a routine and speak a custom phrase you enter into the Alexa app. …

[anon61068208]

@Ryan780

Not possible in the current implementation.

It's working in Alexa now.... I just happened to see it while adding some device routines.

To clarify this... only contacts are now usable in Alexa routines. Not MOTION... yet.

[Ryan780]

Thanks, that's exactly what I said 2 months ago.

[anon61068208]

Actually motion does work with alexa skill now. I just tested the routine in alexa so both motion AND contacts are seen in Alexa.