João Dias
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AutoVoice Sneak Peek - Trigger Alexa Routines!
🕑 Added 2021-03-19 14:34:33 +0000 UTCThis could revolutionize Smart Home for Tasker!
Suddenly any device that you can control with the Alexa app you can now also control with Tasker!
That means that potentially thousands of different Smart Home products can now be controlled from Tasker! 😁 You don't even need an echo! You can simply install the Alexa app (which is free) and it should work!
This uses the AutoVoice Smart Home skill for Alexa and is currently in invite-only beta.
If you want to be part of the beta please follow the procedure below:
- let me know what email you use to sign in to Alexa so I can send it an invite to be part of this beta. Either send me a personal message here on Patreon or leave it below if you don't mind it being public. I'll try to send out invites during the weekend if I can, but I'll send them out on Monday at the latest
- Use this version of AutoVoice: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8G77eDgeMdwZE5CbjlxVW9venc/view?usp=sharing
- In Tasker use the new AutoVoice Trigger Alexa Routine action
- In the action you select (and create if necessary) a new virtual "button" that will be pressed to trigger the routine
- After that's done, go to the Alexa app and setup a new routine with the newly added virtual button (you may need to refresh the Alexa up by pulling down on the device/routine list)
- Make the routine do whatever you want and save
- Finally run the tasker action from any situation and it'll run the routine!
That's it! You can now control all of your Smart Home devices with this action! 😄
Please expect some bugs along the way but hopefully it just works!
Enjoy home automation on another level in Tasker! 😎
Comments
João Dias
That's awesome :D Super cool use case, thanks!
petrus munteanu
I took this a bit further (maybe it'll interest somebody), I took and old Logitech joystick which is connected to my PC and I linked its buttons to the Alexa routines. Basically I can turn on and off lights around the house with the joystick buttons. The whole flow is this: Joystick -> AutoHotkey script (PC) -> Join API (PC) -> Tasker AutoApps command -> AutoVoice Trigger Alexa Routine action. Thx, Joao, for the kind support!
petrus munteanu
if anybody else is struggling (like I did), the TLDR procedure is this: 1. Ask for a test account (from Joao) 2. Add the Autovoice skill to Alexa (link in the confirmation email from Joao) 3. Create the special Tasker action with a new device in it 4. Create an Alexa routine triggered by the new device (it'll show up in devices)
João Dias
That's awesome! :) Thank you very much for testing!!
petrus munteanu
I managed to get it to work (thank you, Joao, for support!), and it runs lightning fast. This is a game changer for me, as I've been struggling for years to trigger Alexa without voice commands. I even created a developer account at Amazon, but the programming part overwhelmed me. Thank you, Joao!
João Dias
Hope it's working! :)
João Dias
Awesome! :) Glad it works now!!
Robert Burton
Okay... Yes, I had the non-beta version enabled. After disabling that one and searching again the beta version appeared as well. When I clicked on it.. it showed as enabled but didn't show up as enabled under the Dev tab on my skills. Disabled that one as well and then went back to the beta invite email and was finally able to get it enabled. Thanks.. it does work now and will play more with it later tonight! Sorry for the problem!
João Dias
hhmm, did you maybe already have the normal non-beta skill enabled? Try searching for AutoVoice in Alexa Skills and see if the regular AutoVoice Smart Home Skill is already enabled. If it is, disable it. If it isn't, enable and then disable it. After that try the beta link again. hope this helps!
Jay
Excellent! This is will be very useful. Thanks!
Robert Burton
I followed the link to enable the Alexa skill but when I press the button to enable it.. it says account linking required... no matter how many times I press it. The AutoVoice skill shows up under My Skills but says the same thing there. Would it be because I use different emails for Google and Alexa?
João Dias
Yeah, I've seen that one before too.. haha!
João Dias
Yeah, this is exciting! :)
João Dias
Added! THanks :)
jonas.app
Have you seen the paper where they trigger specific smart home commands on all the different systems just with an laser through a window? That blew my mind 🤯 Do not find the link atm... This one was related: https://youtu.be/2i1hrywDwPo Aah, it was on another channel: https://youtu.be/ozIKwGt38LQ
petrus munteanu
very neat trick, indeed. Right now I use Autoinput to navigate through to the routines and trigger them. I takes a lot of time and the Alexa app is finicky at that, so... pretty great!
Richard Miles
Message sent! This is exciting
João Dias
😄👍
Mat
Obviously LOVE IT
