Hubitat & Alexa

[panthonybrown]

I am new to Hubitat and have devices through Alexa. After setting up my Hubitat apps, although 20 devices, the only found in "Amazon Echo Skill" is found in my cell phone.

[bcopeland]

Your devices paired to alexa can't be used on hubitat.. You can control them through virtual switches and alexa routines. .

[aaiyar]

@bcopeland

You can control them through virtual switches and alexa routines.

I'm not certain that will work because AFAIK, Hubitat switches, virtual or otherwise, cannot be used as triggers for Alexa routines.

However, Hubitat contact and motion sensors would definitely work for this purpose, and here's where Chris Wilson's (@cwwilson08) Virtual motion with switch driver comes in handy. Posted by @SmartHomePrimer here:

Use a Motion Sensor or Virtual Switch to trigger an Alexa Routine

Expose a motion sensor in the Alexa Skill and you should be able to just use it. For a switch to trigger, a regular virtual switch isn't supported by AWS. Only motion sensors and contact sensors are. So you need to use this simple custom code. Copy this code from Chris Wilson @cwwilson08 and create a new virtual device using this driver. Then expose it to the Alexa Skill. It will mimic a motion sensor output when a switch is digitally turned on within HE metadata { definition (name: "Virtual …

At the Hubitat end, it can be used as a switch, but is exposed as a motion sensor at the Alexa end that can be used to trigger a routine.

I used @cwwilson08's driver to make a Virtual Contact with Switch driver that works the same way. Posted here:

Use a Motion Sensor or Virtual Switch to trigger an Alexa Routine

A very good point. I've left requests with Alexa Support a couple times requesting the capacity to use switches. A little while ago, I created a "Virtual contact with switch" driver (pasted below) using @cwwilson08's "Virtual motion with switch" pasted above. This allows a single virtual device to be accessed as a switch at the Hubitat end and a contact sensor at the Alexa end. You might find it useful. metadata { definition (name: "Virtual contact with Switch", namespace: "cw", author: "c…

[bcopeland]

Looks like is misspoke.. I thought it was possible.. but I just verified that I couldn't... @aaiyar is correct..

[kewashi]

I used this and it worked but recently my virtual contact got changed over to a switch in Alexa and I can't seem to change it back. Anyone else have this problem, and if so, what's a fix?