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]

Hi Sean That flow you posted back very nearly works. In its raw state, when I run your flow Alexa says "the temperature is undefined". If I replace the + flow.temperature in the function node with a string "22" for example, Alexa reads the message ok. So it seem like Alexa need a string and not a n…

Here's an example of converting a numeric to a string. let text_string = some_numeric_variable.toString(); Then use text_string as part of the message that goes to Alexa. You could try... msg.payload.toString() ... to convert a number to a string. Can you post your latest flow?

Here's my flow Dave, it's basically what Sean posted with a few debug node to try to see whats happening: [{"id":"d72fe351b906a44a","type":"tab","label":"Flow 2","disabled":false,"info":"","env":[]},{"id":"bb2203207cd8d41c","type":"alexa-remote-event","z":"d72fe351b906a44a","name":"","account":"f5c…

Your flow variables aren't the same. One has a capital the other hasn't. I'm not near my computer so can't check if this is the issue/problem. Could you try making them the same 'case' ? [Screen Shot 01-27-22 at 01.05 PM 001] [Screen Shot 01-27-22 at 01.05 PM]

[quote=" You could try... msg.payload.toString() ... to convert a number to a string. [/quote] Would that go in the function node or the change node called "store value" Dave, and if so how could I incorporate it?

Yes Dave I did notice that earlier and corrected it but the flow I posted had different capitalisation for some reason. Anyway I just changed them all to capitals and it's still the same unfortunately. It has caught me out in the past the old capitalisation error.

Here's the flow with caps the same: [{"id":"d72fe351b906a44a","type":"tab","label":"Flow 2","disabled":false,"info":"","env":[]},{"id":"bb2203207cd8d41c","type":"alexa-remote-event","z":"d72fe351b906a44a","name":"","account":"f5c58b4876dbd6b3","event":"ws-device-activity","x":150,"y":180,"wires":[[…

I've re-written part of the flow. Try this and see if it works... [{"id":"fdedac607f20a384","type":"tab","label":"Flow 2","disabled":false,"info":"","env":[]},{"id":"d9cef3911a340322","type":"alexa-remote-event","z":"fdedac607f20a384","name":"","account":"f5c58b4876dbd6b3","event":"ws-device-activi…

This does indeed work Dave when using the inject nodes. Alexa announces the values perfectly. However there is a reference error: payload is not defined associated with the top function node as can be seen here: [image]

Your flow doesn't look the same as the one I posted. [Screen Shot 01-27-22 at 01.55 PM] Can you also expand the debug message for node 6 so I can see what the object looks like. [Screen Shot 01-27-22 at 01.56 PM] EDIT: Have a look at this thread by Steve as it explains how to find the path. …

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