Using Alexa And Wink To Open Garage Door

Today i can say alexa turn on the garage door opener and it will momentary press and the door will move to the opposite of the position it s in open closed.

Using alexa and wink to open garage door.

Tap on smart apps. The hub s led will now be flashing blue. Not sure about wink but on smartthings you can get around this by using a virtual switch or a custom device handler. Check the box next to the garage door.

Once she is done go into the amazon echo android app and make sure your garage door is there. It does see the other switches and thermostat etc question 1 anyway to get alexa to see the garage door. 1 point 3 years ago. Alexa ask myq to discover my devices alexa ask myq what are my devices for your myq garage doors.

In this video i will show you how you can use tasker and autoremote to close your myq garage door after a wink robot has sent you a message that your garage door has been open longer than xx time. You ll have to make one for open and one for close. If the myq can not tell which state the garage door is in it will disable the garage door control to the myq and wink apps. Step 8 tell alexa to open the garage door.

For security reasons alexa does not support smart doors locks etc. Now it is just a matter of saying something like alexa open garage door without the extra start statement. In the next screen it will say alexa will turn on xyz scene just click add at the bottom and that s it. Here are the actions and queries currently supported by this skill.

I control the gd through wink and use some time fences for closing after x o clock question 2 assuming i can get alexa to see the gd. Hurdle echo alexa does not see the garage door through wink. The most common reason that this may happen is when the motion sensors become misaligned. Tap anywhere in the myswitches area.

Tap on the amazon echo smart app. Use control scene not control device then choose your open or close garage scene. Alexa ask myq to turn on my light name alexa ask myq to turn off my light name alexa ask myq is. April 02 2019 05 04.

The switch is in virtual momentary pushbutton mode. Step 7 tell alexa to discover your devices. Alexa ask myq to open my door name with pin pin number alexa ask myq to close my door name alexa ask myq is my door name open alexa ask myq what are my doors for your myq lights. Stringify is the best way around this.

If you cannot control your garage door through the wink app make sure that you are able to control it through the chamberlain myq app. Press and release the link button on the side of the garage door controller to exclude the device from the hub. In the wink app select the hub that your garage door opener is paired to and press the 3 blue dots in the top right of the screen.