Alexa and Covers

Configuration
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I have a “Garage Door” cover I can control from the “States” page … it opens and closes as you expect. I want to be able to control it with my Amazon Echo. I have switches and lights already in my configuration that work great via HA and Alexa.

I added “- cover” to the “exposed_domains” for the “emulated_hue” configuration.

When I look at http://:8300/api/pi/lights my cover is listed:

{“cover.garage_door”: {“modelid”: “HASS123”, “name”: “Garage Door”, “state”: {“bri”: 255, “on”: true, “reachable”: true}, “swversion”: “123”, “type”: “Dimmable light”, “uniqueid”: “cover.garage_door”}

The echo accepts my commands like “Alexa, turn on the Garage Door” or “Alexa, set the Garage Door to 0 percent” and responds with a cheerful “Ok”.

However, the garage door doesn’t actuate, although it works flawlessly from the “States” page with the up/down arrows.

Any help would be appreciated.

2

I used a script tied to switch (Remotec Zwave Dry Contact Fixture Module) which is wired it to a keyless remote fob. Here is my set up, if it helps. Mine works with Alexa as, “Echo, turn on (or off) Garage Door”.

From automation.yaml:
################################

garage door momentary switch

################################
- alias: Garage Door Reset
hide_entity: True
trigger:
- platform: time
seconds: ‘/4’
condition:
condition: state
entity_id: switch.garageswitch_switch_2_0
state: “on”
action:
service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.garageswitch_switch_2_0

From scripts:

Garage door opener

  garage_door:
    alias: Garage Door
    sequence:
      - event: LOGBOOK_ENTRY
        event_data:
          name: EVENT
          message: "Garage door opener clicked."
      - service: switch.turn_on
        data:
          entity_id: switch.garageswitch_switch_2_0

From customize.yaml:

switch.garageswitch_switch_2_0:
  friendly_name: Garage
  hidden: true
script.garage_door:
  emulated_hue: true
  icon: mdi:car
3

@Shane_Harrelson, were you ever able to get this figured out? I’m in a similar situation with a MyQ garage door opener that I’m trying to integrate into my Alexa routines.

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@aLTeReGo, I just set my myQ garage door opener with Alexa. First I added the following scenes to Home Assistant.

scene:
  - name: Open the Garage Door
    entities:
      cover.garage_door_opener: on

  - name: Close the Garage Door
    entities:
      cover.garage_door_opener: off

Then – after asking Alexa to discover new scenes – I created 2 “Routines” to access those scenes inside the Alexa app on my iPhone like this:

When I say:
    "Alexa, open the garage door"
Alexa will:
    ::: Turn On Garage Door Opener

When I say:
    "Alexa, close the garage door"
Alexa will:
    ::: Turn Off Garage Door Opener
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5

Slight correction to the above. The scene settings should be as follows:

scene:
  - name: Open the Garage Door
    entities:
      cover.garage_door_opener: open
  - name: Close the Garage Door
    entities:
      cover.garage_door_opener: closed
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6

Just Thank You :pray::tada::tada:

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I know this is a very old thread, but I noticed that this does not work anymore, because Alexa cannot (anymore) distinguish the scenes. It says there are two things with the same name (altough the name is different) and asks, which of the two I want to execute (open blabla or close blabla). If I say, for example, “close blabla”, it just asks again which of the two I mean…

am I the only one with this issue?