I am trying to set up events in Alexa to adjust the speed of our ceiling fans and I am having some problems with this.
I currently have a device called Master bed fan that is discovered by Alexa, I can use "Alexa, set master bed fan to 55 percent" and the fan goes to medium. It works but I would like to try to make it more normal sounding. So I created an event that is triggered manually and made the voice command "Alexa, master bed fan medium". When I try this Alexa says she can't set the device to that setting. Then deleted the device Master bed fan, and tried the event again. This time it said Homeseer couldn't control that device that way.
I found this in Rich's explanation of the new skill: "3) Events can now be triggered. V3 adds "Scene" support. For this we consider an event a scene for Alexa. There is a new property under the event name (Voice Command). If you set this, you can then say "Alexa, turn on event_voice_command", like "Alexa, turn on my evening scene"."
So I an confused, obviously, about how to try to set up Alexa to trigger events. Do I have to say "Alexa, turn on master bed medium scen"? That seems more confusing then telling it a dim value.
Thank you for any help with this.
I currently have a device called Master bed fan that is discovered by Alexa, I can use "Alexa, set master bed fan to 55 percent" and the fan goes to medium. It works but I would like to try to make it more normal sounding. So I created an event that is triggered manually and made the voice command "Alexa, master bed fan medium". When I try this Alexa says she can't set the device to that setting. Then deleted the device Master bed fan, and tried the event again. This time it said Homeseer couldn't control that device that way.
I found this in Rich's explanation of the new skill: "3) Events can now be triggered. V3 adds "Scene" support. For this we consider an event a scene for Alexa. There is a new property under the event name (Voice Command). If you set this, you can then say "Alexa, turn on event_voice_command", like "Alexa, turn on my evening scene"."
So I an confused, obviously, about how to try to set up Alexa to trigger events. Do I have to say "Alexa, turn on master bed medium scen"? That seems more confusing then telling it a dim value.
Thank you for any help with this.
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