Rule Machine 4.0 Christmas Lights

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@burns_hub

some of the Christmas lights are on WiFi outlets which the Hubitat can't deal with, so I have to leave it to Alexa.

You can obviously just handle the timing from Alexa, but if you want to setup the rule logic from HE, you can. You simply need to create a virtual motion sensor that is trigged when a switch is turned on. Then share that with Alexa. When that motion is triggerd, you have an Alexa routine operate the WiFi device.

Use this code for motion sensor as a switch

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 …