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1 = Topics =
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6 {{success}}This page is very much WIP - Work In Progress, I have not a complete understanding of the group and tags used in my files ;) So there is room for some serious improvement.{{/success}}
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11 = Alexa Skill with openHAB =
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13 The setup itself is described here and works ok - [[https://www.openhab.org/docs/ecosystem/alexa/]] - the use of [[https://myopenhab.org/]] has a few benifits: 1) Takes care of the oAuth2 authentification precess and 2) You dont need to open for openHAB in Your firewall.
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15 After the setup I could not get my.openhab.com to talk to my local openHAB, I saw these in the openhab.log:
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19 2017-11-05 17:34:43.985 [ERROR] [io.openhabcloud.internal.CloudClient] - Socket.IO 4 error: not authorized
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22 but after a while and a few UUID/Socket entering and restarts it suddenly worked.... I never figured out why...
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26 After the setup, in went onto [[https://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html#appliances]] and added the skill:
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32 Then I created some files for binding the speach to Alexa and the (Zensehome) Things together.
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34 Refer to [[OpenHAB with Zensehome>>Main.information-technology.openhab-with-zensehome]] . The Channel is the relation to a [[Thing>>https://www.openhab.org/docs/concepts/things.html]]; the "mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:kitchen-light" is the unique identifier.
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37 {{code language="/etc/openhab2/items/alexa.items"}}
38 Switch Kitchen_Light "Kitchen Light" <light> (Kitchen) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:kitchen-light"}
39 Switch Dinner_Table_Light "Dinner Table Light" <light> (Kitchen) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:alrum-light"}
40 Switch Bedroom_Light "Bedroom Light" <light> (Bedroom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:bedrom-light"}
41 Switch Toke_Light "Toke Ceiling Light" <light> (TokesRoom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:toke-light"}
42 Switch Christopher_Light "Christopher Ceiling Light" <light> (ChristhopersRoom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:christopher-light"}
43 Switch Large_bathroom_Light "Large Bathroom Light" <light> (LargeBathroom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:large-bathroom"}
44 Switch Small_Bathroom_Light "Small Bathroom Light" <light> (SmallBathroom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:small-bathroom"}
45 Switch TV_Light "TV Light" <light> (LivingRoom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:livingroom-floor-switch-south"}
46 Switch Vintrine_Light "Vitrine Light" <light> (LivingRoom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:livingroom-floor-switch-west"}
47 Switch Redlamps_Light "Redlamps Light" <light> (LivingRoom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:livingroom-ceiling-north"}
48 Switch Office_Light "Office Light" <light> (Office) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:office-ceiling"}
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53 Group House
54 Group Livingroom (House)
55 Group Kitchen (House)
56 Group Bedroom (House)
57 Group TokesRoom (House)
58 Group ChristophersRoom (House)
59 Group LargeBathRoom (House)
60 Group SmallBathRoom (House)
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63 Switch All_Lights "All Lights" ["Lighting"]
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68 Then I went back to Amazon and scanned for Devices.
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70 = Scanning for Devices =
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72 This little movie shows a rescan of devices:
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75 {{error}}Notice the "Dinner Table Light" is standing as offline - currently that is a unresolved issue....{{/error}}
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82 = Testing =
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84 During testing - I did a tail on the Log from [[OpenHAB with Zensehome>>Main.information-technology.openhab-with-zensehome]] to see the commands being passed to the "Java Application as Bridge":
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88 Jan 26, 2019 1:10:37 PM zensemqtt.Log logging
89 INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: ON
90 Jan 26, 2019 1:10:47 PM zensemqtt.Log logging
91 INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: OFF
92 Jan 26, 2019 1:11:37 PM zensemqtt.Log logging
93 INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/16476, Message: ON
94 Jan 26, 2019 3:39:52 PM zensemqtt.Log logging
95 INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: ON
96 Jan 26, 2019 3:56:47 PM zensemqtt.Log logging
97 INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: ON
98 Jan 26, 2019 5:23:39 PM zensemqtt.Log logging
99 INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: ON
100 Jan 27, 2019 12:08:51 PM zensemqtt.Log logging
101 INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: ON
102 Jan 27, 2019 12:27:12 PM zensemqtt.Log logging
103 INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: OFF
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