Gentlemen I have a Sonoff TH16 in my living room with a temperature sensor delivering its Celsius values into a Node Red flow. This is then displayed in a dashboard widget. The next step is that I would like my Alexa device to be able to inform me of the temperature when I ask "Alexa what is the te…

Oops - sorry, typo in the top function node. I missed msg. off of the first part of the path. This is what it should look like... [Screen Shot 01-27-22 at 02.15 PM]

A bit like this [NR flow] Maybe I'm being too simplistic.

The sonoff skill is under ewelink i think, but as you have mqtt that would not be needed. You will have to use blue print or an alexa routine so you can catch the correct phrase and avoid alexa saying "i don't understand that", You may be able to use node-red-contrib-vitual-smart as a temp trigger t…

Its easy to do - but you need a way to know when the request has been made for temperature. All the options have already been sugested. To keep it simple without needing any other accounts, skills or nodes, then using the Q&A blueprint option is the best bet. It is a very simple way to allow you …

Thanks for the responses chaps. I try again tomorrow.

To use Q&A Go to blueprints Login with your amazon account and click on custom Q&A Click - make your own Follow prompts to add several ways to ask the question eg "what is the living room temperature" Then enter a response in the Alexa will say box - This is what Alexa will say when you ask the…

And of course, there is always the "Simon says" approach that needs no skills at all [image] How to get all Alexa requests WITHOUT any other skills Share Your Projects Executive Summary ... just prefix all your house #IoT commands with "Simon Says" slight_smile And then …

You can easily increase the vocabulary by creating a routine in Alexa and associate it with the light or plug, which is what I do with the wemo emulator in node red, so that I can ask Alexa "what is the temperature in the study" and the emulator node triggers the flow for the response from the senso…

Thanks for info guy's. I've got the blueprint side of things working but now I'm trying to get Alexa to say the temperature, which is a number (from MQTT data). I've noticed that using the Alexa routine node, the payload has to be in text (string) format before it can be spoken. If I inject a number…

[image] Surefire01: Is there some kind of conversion necessary to go from number to text? Use a change node with a JSONata $string() function: [Screenshot-31]

try something like this - just change the number to your value eg flow.temp or where ever you store the actual temp and setup alexa node for your account and device [{"id":"c04df06e9a03e5dc","type":"inject","z":"5f089500.98b45c","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":…

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And of course, there is always the "Simon says" approach that needs no skills at all

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