Looking for a snooze way to say 'Alexa, whats the bathroom humidity'. Anyone already create this rule /setup? assumedly its stored to variable and pushed... or maybe you've a better way?
Are you trying to automate Alexa saying what the humidity is? Or just want to ask what it is and get a reply? I know I can ask the temperature of a room, and my sensors have the humidity shared as well but I have never asked for the humidity so not sure if it would respond.
Ok I just checked and although I have my multi-sensor shared looks like only the temp goes to Alexa. Homekit has both temp and humidity, possibly Alexa has no support for humidity sensors?
yea. so I have a aqua humidity sensor in the shower. it's just a sensor - no display. I want to ask Alexa what that humidity is so I don't have to walk all the way to the office to see the android dashboard. just wanna say 'hey, whats the value' so I can sort of monitor it. It's been saying 52% for like a week - and my smarter humidity fan app runs a full cycle...
I know there is a complicated way using node-red to create custom responses to stuff. I read through it thinking I was going to set it up but it seemed way more complicated than it was worth so I never did it.
Oooo... I have an idea Requires Echo Speaks.
Make a virtual switch with auto-off of 5 seconds or something short, share to Alexa.
Have a routine in Alexa with a trigger of your phrase asking for Humidity, action would be to turn that switch on.
Create a RM that triggers on that switch which speaks back on the Alexa your Humidity level.
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Well, you can do something similar to what I do to find whether our cats are on our enclosed patio or, instead, in the house.
An Alexa routine is triggered by asking, “Alexa, where are the cats?” Alexa then turns on an auto-off virtual switch exposed by Hubitat. The turning on of that switch causes a Hubitat rule to be triggered, and the rule interrogates the SureFlap pet door presence sensors for the cats (integration ported from SmartThings by Dominick Meglio) and builds an appropriate message that is announced by Echo Speaks.
You could similarly build a humidity response and have Alexa announce it.
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