Jon00 Homeseer/Echo Skill Helper for Homeseer 3 & Homeseer 4

[mitchmitchell1616]

I will paste the logs in a note when I get home. I do see messages where the plugin hears Alexa and get a long id string but show the Alexa as "unamed".

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[jon00]

If you see the long string than that is correct. You need to read the instructions and assign them 'Friendly names'.

[mitchmitchell1616]

Cool -- I have it working now -- I had assumed that since I was having trouble getting Alexa to talk to homeseer through the skills that this would also have trouble, but it seems to be working fine, thanks!

[The Profit]

Hello jon00

Is is possible to say "Alexa tell homeseer good night" at different Alexa devices and have it trigger different events? I'm wanting to say that phrase in either the master bedroom or at one of the downstairs alexa devices but have it perform different actions based on where the command was heard.

I realize I could setup different key words but to make it easier and reduce the number or phrases that one has to remember.

[mwaite]

Hello jon00

Is is possible to say "Alexa tell homeseer good night" at different Alexa devices and have it trigger different events? I'm wanting to say that phrase in either the master bedroom or at one of the downstairs alexa devices but have it perform different actions based on where the command was heard.

I realize I could setup different key words but to make it easier and reduce the number or phrases that one has to remember.

Yes it's possible. See Jon00Alexa.pdf doc >> Determining Alexa device location.

[jon00]

Hello jon00

Is is possible to say "Alexa tell homeseer good night" at different Alexa devices and have it trigger different events? I'm wanting to say that phrase in either the master bedroom or at one of the downstairs alexa devices but have it perform different actions based on where the command was heard.

I realize I could setup different key words but to make it easier and reduce the number or phrases that one has to remember.

As Mike said

[The Profit]

As Mike said

Great, thanks guys....some reason I was thinking it had to be a different phrase.


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[yyz]

Maybe not the correct forum but I appreciate any feedback. For the runscript option running as a function, it mentions returning a string as an example. Since my scripts are subs and not functions, how do I return a string?

[jon00]

You can only return a string if you run a function. Normally you would write a script function specifically for this application if you wanted it to return something.

[yyz]

You can only return a string if you run a function. Normally you would write a script function specifically for this application if you wanted it to return something.

OK, makes sense now. Thanks

[The Profit]

Hi Jon00, I’ve been having issues with only one of the triggers that I’ve setup in your script and wondered if you could help? All of the other triggers that I have setup in you Helper work fine except for this one. This issue happened after the issues that HS had with the connection with Alexa.

Here is the error I see in the log after I say “Alexa, tell Homeseer good night”

Feb-19 8:36:19 PM TTSSpeak (json:
Feb-19 8:36:19 PM InfoHeard: good night
Feb-19 8:36:19 PM Jon00_AlexaScript processing time: 13 ms
Feb-19 8:36:19 PM Jon00_AlexaResponse sent to Alexa: ''
Feb-19 8:36:19 PM Jon00_AlexaTrigger under [Trigger5] BUT no match on Echo device ID/Name
Feb-19 8:36:19 PM Jon00_AlexaEcho device in use: Undefined
Feb-19 8:36:19 PM Jon00_AlexaTrigger under [Trigger1] BUT no match on Echo device ID/Name
Feb-19 8:36:19 PM Jon00_AlexaEcho device in use: Undefined
Feb-19 8:36:19 PM Jon00_AlexaAlexa Source: 'Amazon'
Feb-19 8:36:19 PM Jon00_AlexaAlexa Device Name: 'Undefined'

The Alexa device had been defined but something must have happened to it.


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[jon00]

Have you checked to see if the Amazon ID sent (as shown in the HS Log) matches those you have defined in the ini file?

[The Profit]

Have you checked to see if the Amazon ID sent (as shown in the HS Log) matches those you have defined in the ini file?

There were two additional Amazon ID’s added to the config file but I haven’t added any. Are there times when Amazon assigns a new Amazon ID to the same device?

The Amazon ID that came up in the log was defined in the config file but it had a “-“. The event that I was trying to trigger was restricted to specific devices however. I deleted the two Amazon IDs out of the config file and changed the new ones that had the “-“ to the correct names.


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[jon00]

It has been reported before that additional ID's appear for the same device; reason unknown.

You can leave the other ID's in place and just name the new ones the same friendly name if you want.

[Timon]

I need to do some testing to figure out an issue on what Alexa is sending. Which plugin needs to be renamed so not of the jon00_Alexa plugin will start?

What I would like to see is a way to shut down jon00_Alexa without having to manually rename files. It would be nice if it was a device then we could just flip a switch. Disabling inside of Alexa can cause side effects. I just want jon00_alexa to be disabled not the skill.