I donât have any Alexa groups or routines. I do all of that in Hubitat.
âAlexa, set living room to 30â, âAlexa turn off kitchenâ, âAlexa, set patio to 90â, etc. Those are groups of dimmers and switches in Hubitat. âKitchenâ is also activated by motion sensors, and Lutron keypads and Picos, all unified and synchronized, along with Alexa. Alexa is just another activating device, as it were.
I must be missing something really obvious hereâŚbut I donât see the âgroupâ option in Hubitat.
Or are you creating virtual devices and then have rules triggered accordingly to the group members?
This is done in Motion Lighting and Mode Lighting. We also have a new app coming soon that will explicitly create groups of lights for Alexa, without the overhead of Motion Lighting and Mode Lighting, if all you want is a group of lights for Alexa to control.
My partner and I are in an Amazon household, and I used her Alexa profile to do the initial discovery via the Hue Hub functionality built into Hubitat.
I wanted to go into my Alexa profile (we have different musical tastes, hence the different profiles), and then have it discover the Hubitat devices so that no matter which profile a particular Echo is in, the control mechanisms would work.
When I go into my profile for our Echos and hit âDiscover Devicesâ for the Hue, it churns, and comes back with âNo New Devices.â I suppose this makes some sense, since they were previously discovered.
Is there any way to get those Hubitat devices into my Alexa profile as well?
Thanks.
BTW - Iâve been loving the new hub and flexibility and speed itâs provided. Yes, itâs âengineering roughâ from a UI standpoint, but, really fantastic work by @bravenel & teamâŚ
I have not revisited this configuration for sometime. My situation is 2 profiles (me and wife) and 2 homes. We had to configure 1 account to be home and 1 account to be 2nd home. Pain in the but. We are constantly telling alexa to change accounts to accomplish something (track an order, music, etc) and then not switched back to the correct account for that home to use with automations. If what you are trying to accomplish worked, I might consider setting up 2 more amazon accounts/profiles and having mine account per home and her account per home but both accounts at each location able to control devices.
@patrick - is there any update on the Alexa Skill? Once thatâs in place I can shutdown SmartThings for good. Right now my echo doesnât discover devices so I am using the other hub app and replicating all of my switches to ST just so I can use their Alexa Skill.
I was trying to use mode manager with button control and Alexa and just saw the Alexa App doesn't see buttons. I am using Rule Machine to get past this, but can this get an update for virtual buttons?
Craig
An Alexa Skill is on the way and will replace the Alexa Echo app. Hopefully buttons will be supportable, but I have never seen a momentary switch (e.g. a button) in the Alexa app. I'm not certain their API supports it.
If the virtual button driver also has the "Switch" capability it should still be available to use in Alexa. I have a "Sleep Mode" VB that I use with Alexa to turn on/off a bunch of lights, lock my doors and set my mode to "Night". Works perfectly.
I had to do this, I tried telling alexa about 20 times over an hour to discover devices. I did this once and it found the one thing I had moved over. This should be recommended, and mentioned in the instructions IMO.