Finally laid our hands on this device after reading countless reviews about it. There were always two sides to all reviews, and generally, we pay more attention to the negative side to see if we could live with it. Afterall, we roughly knew the great side about it, that's why we are reading the reviews in the first place. As this product came from the U.S, many people including ourselves, wonder if this voice recognition software would be able to capture and understand the Singapore slang. It took several Singaporean reviews and being part of the SG Home Automation Facebook Group before we decided to take the leap of faith and purchased it.
Originally I wanted to get the new Echo Dot. Although Amazon had cunningly designed that you can only order an Echo Dot by voice through the original Amazon Echo, there is a way to trick the system and purchase a Dot without the original. The Dot does look better and could be linked to our home audio system, but I chose the original in the end because I do not want to leave our home audio system on 24/7. Perhaps next time for our bedroom if all goes well.
Had been playing with it for the past 24 hours, and it is pretty neat. I have taught it to switch on and off my lights and fans in the room but it is really a tiring process to set everything up before you can enjoy the wonders of home automation. Just a quick introduction to how things are going to be like at our house next time.
I will speak to Alexa > Alexa will trigger an IFTTT recipe to send a link > the link will trigger my phone tasker > the tasker will send a command to my Broadlink RM Pro > the RM Pro will send the radiowave to my Livolo switches > the Livolo will switch on my lights/fan > my lights/fan are turned on. :D
Why will I do this instead of just pressing the switch? Because I can.
Links for reference:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tasker/comments/3arbeh/how_to_hookup_tasker_to_ifttt_using_autoremote/
http://wiki.winkathome.net/Supercharge_your_Echo_with_Tasker_and_IFTTT
The internet is bogged down with bogus blogs with no real message but the post was fantastic and well worth the read.Thank you for sharing this with me.
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Hi, anyway the rm plugin app was updated and I could now control my lighting and equipment from alexa without having to go through all the tasker and IFTTT anymore. Just letting you know in case you're doing it too!
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DeleteOops sorry for the late reply. In the rm plugin app there is an alexa bridge and alexa device list. Use those would help you get it done now without having to go through IFTTT. Maybe after CNY I would post up a how to do it. :)
DeleteOops sorry for the late reply. In the rm plugin app there is an alexa bridge and alexa device list. Use those would help you get it done now without having to go through IFTTT. Maybe after CNY I would post up a how to do it. :)
DeleteOops sorry for the late reply. In the rm plugin app there is an alexa bridge and alexa device list. Use those would help you get it done now without having to go through IFTTT. Maybe after CNY I would post up a how to do it. :)
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