I have Alexa working well with my OMNIPRO II and Homeseer. Alexa sees all of my z-wave units and buttons, I can control them via Alexa. I am struggling with two issues. First Alexa only sees one of my two kwikset locks (homeseer shows both) and I can't figure out how to allow Alexa to set my alarm. Don't see any device in Alexa that I can attribute to my alarm system. Any ideas of what I am missing? Thanks.
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I would create a virtual device that has a simple ON/OFF control. Name it "House Alarm".
Test it out in Alexa and make sure you can turn it ON/OFF with "Alexa, Turn On the House Alarm"
Once that works, then create 2 events. One is triggered when that virtual device turns ON. Give it an action of OMNI: Arm/Disarm.
Do the same for the virtual device turning OFF.
HS4Pro on a Raspberry Pi4
54 Z-Wave Nodes / 21 Zigbee Devices / 108 Events / 767 Devices
Plugins: Z-Wave / Zigbee Plus / EasyTrigger / AK Weather / OMNI
HSTouch Clients: 1 Android
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Thanks. Will give it a try, although not sure how to create a virtual device, but I can create a button to do the same. Will pass on the off option for security reasons, but like the idea of arming it at night with Alexa. Maybe even a goodnight routine that arms alarm, locks door and turns off selected lights. I do that now with an Omni script when I arm the system, now want to do it verbally.
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