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Alexa - Fibaro - Lua scenes and virtual devices


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I am really happy with Alexa's Fibaro skills. Unfortunately, there seems to be limitations to take advantage of LUA scenes and virtual devices.

 

What would be your recommendation to have workaround for this? Should I forget Alexa's Fibaro skills and use Raspberry PI and HA Bridge instead or what?

  • Does it matter what PI version to use?
  • What would be the best tutorial to make it work?

 

Thanks in advance for your support!

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1 hour ago, A.Socha said:

Hi, they are a limitation because of Amazon policy. 

 

can you provide a link to this policy?

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9 hours ago, 10der said:

rovide a link to this policy?

 

I'd also like to see this policy

From what I've read other companies dont seem to have this restriction

 

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W dniu 4.02.2018 o 12:06, donL napisał:

I am really happy with Alexa's Fibaro skills. Unfortunately, there seems to be limitations to take advantage of LUA scenes and virtual devices.

 

What would be your recommendation to have workaround for this? Should I forget Alexa's Fibaro skills and use Raspberry PI and HA Bridge instead or what?

  • Does it matter what PI version to use?
  • What would be the best tutorial to make it work?

 

Thanks in advance for your support!

Hi

 

For now, I have a solution to use Alexa for LUA scenes:

execution:
Alexa.. turn on sleep time


Scene No. 1 NAME: Sleep time
(block, detected by Alexe) eg turns off the light in the garden + changes the global variable night_sleep=1

Scene No. 2 (block) detects the change of the global variable (night_sleep=1) and starts the scene no. 3

Scene No. 3 (LUA) Contains the LUA code for execution
 

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Hi, they are a limitation because of Amazon policy.  (By Alexa we can't control any security devices) In LUA we can't control what device you control so to pass certification we needed to skip LUA scenes in Alexa

 

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On 5/7/2018 at 11:42 PM, awygas said:

Hi

 

For now, I have a solution to use Alexa for LUA scenes:

execution:
Alexa.. turn on sleep time


Scene No. 1 NAME: Sleep time
(block, detected by Alexe) eg turns off the light in the garden + changes the global variable night_sleep=1

Scene No. 2 (block) detects the change of the global variable (night_sleep=1) and starts the scene no. 3

Scene No. 3 (LUA) Contains the LUA code for execution
 

 

What version of HC2 do you use? It does not work in 4.150. Alexa cannot find those scenes either. That's big deficiency imo.

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Hi,

I'm new to HC2. I've moved over from Domoticz and Zipabox etc. and found to my horror that I can't run Lua or VD from Alexa! ;(

How will my wife turn on the sitting room lamps etc.?

My work around for this was to use a Z-Uno I had sitting around for another project that I don''t have time for. I set the Z-Uno up with 10 Binary Switches and included it... Boom... 10 physical devices that Alexa can operate. Now I can name "device one" as "All Lamps" and then IF "All Lamps" == On THEN run X-Scene or turn on VD1 + VD2 etc. ;D

 

Sean

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On 5/8/2018 at 9:45 AM, A.Socha said:

Hi, they are a limitation because of Amazon policy.  (By Alexa we can't control any security devices) In LUA we can't control what device you control so to pass certification we needed to skip LUA scenes in Alexa

 

But with nearly no effort it's possible to control every device via graphic blocks, also lua scenes. So which kind of "security" you are talking from? I don't think you can pass any "certification" .

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HA-Bridge works great or Node-Red with alexa plugins but that's for more hardcore ppl

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