Ecolink Z-wave Plus Flood/Freeze Sensor and Amazon Alexa app

[tony.fleisher]

@stuart.serekis

I would still like to get the Alexa to make the announcement so that anybody in the house could be alerted to an issue in the basement not relying on me to have my phone on or by me.

There are a few options for this:

1. Instead of virtual switch, use a custom device that has both Motion Sensor and Switch capabilities (Switch to turn on/off from basic rule; motion to trigger alexa routines) such as: [RELEASE] Virtual Switch Universal Device Type (uDTH) - good for Alexa, IFTTT, HSM, and other integrations

2. Use a virtual Motion device and RM (Rule Machine - a more complex built-in app for automations), which can call the custom Active/Inactive commands on the virtual device, instead of Basic Rule.

3. Instead of using Alexa routine to trigger the announcement, use [BETA] Echo Speaks V4 (a community/custom App by @tonesto7 ) to send the announcements directly.
   Echo Speaks also has the ability to configure automations through something called "Actions", which looks like this: