How to use Alexa to stop automatic lights
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 6:06 am
Hi,
I have the lights in many rooms set to come on automatically during the day if the light levels outside are below a threshold and then go off after a certain amount of time. This has worked well for a long time, but now we have babies napping in the living room duruing the day, we want to be able to turn off the lights. If we ask Alexa to turn them off, then they just come back on.
I tried starting a timer when they get turned off whilst its not bright outside, and then not allowing the motion to reactivate them in that time, but that then prevents them working if they have just turned off after no motion. I guess I could try and get clever by cancelling the timer if they are turned off by no motion, but wondered what else people do?
I could ask my wife to ask Alexa to run a separate action to stop automation, ie run the above timer, but thats not going to be met with much enthusiasm. Its better if that is part of the turn off lights command, and ideally that would be a "native" alexa one, ie turn off lights in living room, rather than having to use certain words to run an action group that turns off lights and starts timer to block automation.
I am guessing there is no way to determine what has caused the lights to be turned off?
Thanks
I have the lights in many rooms set to come on automatically during the day if the light levels outside are below a threshold and then go off after a certain amount of time. This has worked well for a long time, but now we have babies napping in the living room duruing the day, we want to be able to turn off the lights. If we ask Alexa to turn them off, then they just come back on.
I tried starting a timer when they get turned off whilst its not bright outside, and then not allowing the motion to reactivate them in that time, but that then prevents them working if they have just turned off after no motion. I guess I could try and get clever by cancelling the timer if they are turned off by no motion, but wondered what else people do?
I could ask my wife to ask Alexa to run a separate action to stop automation, ie run the above timer, but thats not going to be met with much enthusiasm. Its better if that is part of the turn off lights command, and ideally that would be a "native" alexa one, ie turn off lights in living room, rather than having to use certain words to run an action group that turns off lights and starts timer to block automation.
I am guessing there is no way to determine what has caused the lights to be turned off?
Thanks