Well, Alexa is telling me a story and the power isn't changing. That sucks.
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Had a feeling it would be to small to detect, but thanks for reporting back.
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Hmm ... this looks interesting. The price hurts a bit for what I want to use it for. Can you use wildcards to trigger routines in the alexa app? Do you know?
Going to have to punt to the community for an answer here. I only use my google home to tell me things like my stair gate being left open, water leak, etc. I have only one alexa and the truth is that we only ever used it to tell us Jimmy Fallon jokes. She has the upper hand when it comes to jokes.
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I agree on the price, I looked at it for a second when automating dryer notifications but went with a vibration sensor that was half the price from smartthings.
There is a post in the community someone looking for vibration sensors for a lighting app for their stairs. Perhaps you could visit there and put in your two cents?
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I think we lost @sank a couple of hours ago. I'm sure they'll post something after a good night's slumber since we basically solved it. One helluva community if I don't mind saying. 
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Will have to go ask some additional questions and maybe do some testing with my spare multi purpose sensor depending on what exactly he is trying to do.
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My steps are lit. I used a couple of Iris's and an led strip. Done.
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Lol, just recommended the iris motion sensors with the tube that @mike.maxwell modified as that seems like a more solid automation.
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I have seen your "Lit" steps, looks very nice. Love seeing pics of others work.
I know! I do too! And thanks! I found a little gap in the steps, so the cord fit through the steps without having to "modify" anything. Made easy work of it. So it runs right down to my media closet in the basement. It was a cool score!
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Got to love it when it works out so well. The under cabinet lights I just put in I had planned to hook to my under sink outlet. I obviously didn't put any real thought in to this as that outlet is switched for the disposal. Fortunately the dishwasher is right next to the cabinet. 2 screws to pull out the dishwasher and a small whole that is completely hidden through the cabinet to run power to the LED's.
My Wife must have loved it as I now am being asked to install some lights above the cabinet.
This morning I had a switch I pulled out and my son (9 years old) asked me what it was for. I was looking at it for possibly nodding it in the future to use with a fancier push button. (Honestly this is an idea without a project.) Since my son took some interest I asked if he wanted a bedside light switch. He has never shown any interest in my world (beyond video games). Since he wanted the switch I asked him if he wanted to configure it. Surprisingly he was still interested and we worked through simple lighting. Was quite fun.
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=Priceless. Those are the moments that you hang on to. Keep him interested. If he continues, keep him involved. Reminds me of the movie "Son-in-law". Now I'm showing my age. That's awesome!
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Yeah, that is a nice story!
My 18 year old had a cumbersome question today, after automating lights in most of the rooms.
«Why do I have to turn on the lights in the bathroom?»
He also saved up to buy some Hue stuff for his gaming environment himselves, but today he also wanted to do a swap that I get two of his Hue Light bars in exchange for a Ambilight solution for his gaming screen.
No luck in questions on how it all works though, but at his age, school, gaming and girlfriend keeps him bussy. 
In Norway, we have free law school in universities, if you have top grades, and he is in, so he have prioritized impressively! (Proud dad)
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Bit late to the party, but I have 11 of these outlets,.
@april.brandt I'm using the Iris smart plug driver by shackrat and if i have it set to .5 on the voltage change it will detect when my google minis kick in. Not sure how nicely the driver will play with the zwave driver for them (i dont have any zwave devices yet), but worth giving a shot if your still looking for a way to detect when your alexa fires. 
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Hmm this thread blew up, So What I gather I need to plug the device in close to the HE and after 3 sec. press the button 8x ? and it should show up to link as a Zigbee device?
For Zigbee pairing follow the steps in post 2 by @april, be sure also to put the hub in zigbee pairing mode.
The steps you listed above are for z-wave pairing.
Hey all,
I have a couple of these and 1 gives me an error on the Zigbee side, the others don't. Z-wave side is working fine
groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: user_driver_shackrat_Iris_Smart_Plug
Re-paired it several times, always finds it as a device previously paired
I'm using Shackrat's drives as well
Anyone else having this issue?
Rick
Double check the version of the outlet, and maybe check the firmware version.
It appears as though the device is sending some sort of reply that the driver isn't expecting and doesn't have an event handler set up for.
I know when I first started I ordered these off eBay and I was sent v3's instead which still set up amd worked but lack all power options and threw random code errors like that in my logs.
