I am a noob who bought several Sengled bulbs. They were a piece of cake to add to my Hubitat Hub. Is there a step-by-step instructions on how to control them with Alexa?
The easiest way to add Alexa integration with Hubitat is to simply go into the Alexa App on your mobile phone. Then, Enable the Hubitat Skill. This will prompt you to log into your Hubitat Portal Account and select your Hubitat Hub (if you have more than one.) Once you do that, the "Amazon Echo Skill" app will automagically be installed on your hub, where you can choose which Hubitat devices you'd like to be exposed to Alexa.
Once you have your Hubitat devices showing up in Alexa, you can then create Alexa Groups within the Alexa App on your phone to organize your Echo and Smart Home devices into logical groups/rooms. By assigning an Echo device to a specific group, along with a set of lights, you can simply say "Alexa, turn on/off the lights" and only those lights in the same alexa group will be impacted.
Note, thermostats and temperature sensors are not supported via Hubitat's current Alexa Skill. Switches, Dimmers, RGBW lights, motion sensors, and contact sensors are all supported. Motion and Contact sensors can be used to Trigger an 'Alexa Routine', which can be very useful for a variety of things. One common trick is to create some Virtual Contact Sensors in Hubitat, and then expose those to Alexa. Use each one to trigger an Alexa Routine to make you Echo device(s) say something. For example, "Don't forget to take out the trash tomorrow!)" or "The Laundry is done!"
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Thanks for the quick response. I am having a great time learning and everyone in this community has been very helpful.
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I use Sengled bulbs because I don't want my Zigbee mesh flipping out every time someone in my household flips off a light switch. Sengled are the only bulbs, I am aware of, that do NOT act as repeaters. In my mind bulbs should never be repeaters; only devices that are permanently plugged in should be repeaters. Just my 2 cents.
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