Virtual Button and Alexa

[stephenc]

Hello, everyone.

I have a virtual 1 button device "TestBtn" that triggers a rule to perform the action of blinking some lights four times via toggles. It will ultimately control different lights serve as a "dinner bell" of sorts, as I hate it when my family screams through the house. But now I'm just testing. It works as intended.

It has been added to the Echo Skills app in Hubitat.

The issue is that it is not visible in Alexa. I've had this happen with Scenes in the past, and unlinking and relinking Hubitat in Alexa's app caused it to find everything. That didn't happen this time. Having Alexa " find devices" also did nothing, even when I tried to push the virtual button many times (which caused my wife to ask WTF the lights are doing).

Any ideas are appreciated. Thank you,
Stephen.

[bertabcd1234]

What driver is this device using? "Pure" button devices, like Virtual Button, are not visible to Alexa. A common workaround is to use a virtual switch (with the auto-off option enabled, it's essentially momentary, like a button; you can keep your existing button device and create a rule or other automation to do this, too, rather than switching everything out) or using a custom "switch with button" driver (though there is nothing built-in for this).

[stephenc]

Hello, and thanks. I wasn't using a driver (very new here). I did just flip it to a virtual switch, made it momentary, and it worked.

Thank you very much!

Stephen.