Having a weird issue with Alexa and my motorized curtains. I’ve spend a LOT of time trying to figure this out and I suspect its an AWS issue, but thought I’d run it by the community here also.
Everything in Alexa works by voice command, and we have room awareness/groups setup. In our family room, for example, I can and can speak alexa LOWER the curtains… but I want to speak …alexa CLOSE the curtains… which does not work. She tells me “A few things share the name curtain, which do you want?” (I do not have anything named simply “curtain”, they’re always [room name] curtain)
Either way works when I speak, for example… alexa open the family room curtain works fine.
I’ve been through the docs and have it setup as an INTERIOR_BLIND and I have it the settings that tell it there is no tilt, so it should work with either, and it does, but just for some reason the room awareness only works with raise or lower instead of open or close.
The full item from the discovery is below, but I confirmed the result does show both directives in the action mappings.
"actionMappings": [
{
"@type": "ActionsToDirective",
"actions": [
"Alexa.Actions.Lower",
"Alexa.Actions.Close"
],
"directive": {
"name": "SetMode",
"payload": {
"mode": "position.closed"
}
}
},
{
"@type": "ActionsToDirective",
"actions": [
"Alexa.Actions.Raise",
"Alexa.Actions.Open"
],
"directive": {
"name": "SetMode",
"payload": {
"mode": "position.open"
}
}
}
]
Anyone have any ideas?
Here's the full object from Alexa discovery
"displayCategories": [
"INTERIOR_BLIND"
],
"cookie": {},
"endpointId": "cover#family_room_curtain",
"friendlyName": "Family Room Curtain",
"description": "cover.family_room_curtain via Home Assistant",
"manufacturerName": "Home Assistant",
"additionalAttributes": {
"manufacturer": "Home Assistant",
"model": "cover",
"softwareVersion": "2022.12.7",
"customIdentifier": "-cover.family_room_curtain"
},
"capabilities": [
{
"type": "AlexaInterface",
"interface": "Alexa.PowerController",
"version": "3",
"properties": {
"supported": [
{
"name": "powerState"
}
],
"proactivelyReported": true,
"retrievable": true
}
},
{
"type": "AlexaInterface",
"interface": "Alexa.ModeController",
"version": "3",
"instance": "cover.position",
"properties": {
"supported": [
{
"name": "mode"
}
],
"proactivelyReported": true,
"retrievable": true,
"nonControllable": false
},
"capabilityResources": {
"friendlyNames": [
{
"@type": "text",
"value": {
"text": "Position",
"locale": "en-US"
}
},
{
"@type": "asset",
"value": {
"assetId": "Alexa.Setting.Opening"
}
}
]
},
"configuration": {
"ordered": false,
"supportedModes": [
{
"value": "position.open",
"modeResources": {
"friendlyNames": [
{
"@type": "asset",
"value": {
"assetId": "Alexa.Value.Open"
}
}
]
}
},
{
"value": "position.closed",
"modeResources": {
"friendlyNames": [
{
"@type": "asset",
"value": {
"assetId": "Alexa.Value.Close"
}
}
]
}
},
{
"value": "position.custom",
"modeResources": {
"friendlyNames": [
{
"@type": "text",
"value": {
"text": "Custom",
"locale": "en-US"
}
},
{
"@type": "asset",
"value": {
"assetId": "Alexa.Setting.Preset"
}
}
]
}
}
]
},
"semantics": {
"actionMappings": [
{
"@type": "ActionsToDirective",
"actions": [
"Alexa.Actions.Lower",
"Alexa.Actions.Close"
],
"directive": {
"name": "SetMode",
"payload": {
"mode": "position.closed"
}
}
},
{
"@type": "ActionsToDirective",
"actions": [
"Alexa.Actions.Raise",
"Alexa.Actions.Open"
],
"directive": {
"name": "SetMode",
"payload": {
"mode": "position.open"
}
}
}
],
"stateMappings": [
{
"@type": "StatesToValue",
"states": [
"Alexa.States.Closed"
],
"value": "position.closed"
},
{
"@type": "StatesToValue",
"states": [
"Alexa.States.Open"
],
"value": "position.open"
}
]
}
},
{
"type": "AlexaInterface",
"interface": "Alexa.EndpointHealth",
"version": "3",
"properties": {
"supported": [
{
"name": "connectivity"
}
],
"proactivelyReported": true,
"retrievable": true
}
},
{
"type": "AlexaInterface",
"interface": "Alexa",
"version": "3"
}
]
}