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Alexa Skill with openHAB
The setup itself is descriped here and works ok - https://www.openhab.org/docs/ecosystem/alexa/
After the setup I could not get my.openhab.com to talk to my local openHAB, I saw these in the openhab.log:
2017-11-05 17:34:43.985 [ERROR] [io.openhabcloud.internal.CloudClient] - Socket.IO 4 error: not authorized
but after a while and a few restarts it worked.... I never figured out why...
After the setup, in went onto https://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html#appliances and added the skill:
Then I created some files for binding the speach to Alexa and the (Zensehome) Things together. Refer to OpenHAB with Zensehome
Switch Kitchen_Light "Kitchen Light" <light> (Kitchen) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:kitchen-light"} Switch Dinner_Table_Light "Dinner Table Light" <light> (Kitchen) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:alrum-light"} Switch Bedroom_Light "Bedroom Light" <light> (Bedroom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:bedrom-light"} Switch Toke_Light "Toke Ceiling Light" <light> (TokesRoom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:toke-light"} Switch Christopher_Light "Christopher Ceiling Light" <light> (ChristhopersRoom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:christopher-light"} Switch Large_bathroom_Light "Large Bathroom Light" <light> (LargeBathroom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:large-bathroom"} Switch Small_Bathroom_Light "Small Bathroom Light" <light> (SmallBathroom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:small-bathroom"} Switch TV_Light "TV Light" <light> (LivingRoom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:livingroom-floor-switch-south"} Switch Vintrine_Light "Vitrine Light" <light> (LivingRoom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:livingroom-floor-switch-west"} Switch Redlamps_Light "Redlamps Light" <light> (LivingRoom) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:livingroom-ceiling-north"} Switch Office_Light "Office Light" <light> (Office) ["Lighting"] {channel="mqtt:topic:61a4bec6:office-ceiling"}
Group House Group Livingroom (House) Group Kitchen (House) Group Bedroom (House) Group TokesRoom (House) Group ChristophersRoom (House) Group LargeBathRoom (House) Group SmallBathRoom (House) Group Office (House) Switch All_Lights "All Lights" ["Lighting"]
Then I want back to Amazon and scanned for Devices.
Scanning for Devices
This little movie shows a rescan of devices:
Testing
During testing - I did a tail on the Log from OpenHAB with Zensehome to see the commands being passed to the "Java Application as Bridge":
Jan 26, 2019 1:10:37 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: ON Jan 26, 2019 1:10:47 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: OFF Jan 26, 2019 1:11:37 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/16476, Message: ON Jan 26, 2019 3:39:52 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: ON Jan 26, 2019 3:56:47 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: ON Jan 26, 2019 5:23:39 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: ON Jan 27, 2019 12:08:51 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: ON Jan 27, 2019 12:27:12 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/18324, Message: OFF