ckeyes888 wrote: “Tell Indigo”?
If that’s the case I prefer it the way it is.
I agree. The way it is... you can control anything in indigo. There are only two downsides...
1) You have to use "light" commands (turn off, turn on, set to 50 <-dimmers). For most stuff that works great. But I can never remember if "
Turn on front door lock" unlocks the door or locks the door.
2) One way communication only. Alexa can control Indigo, but Indigo can't really control Alexa.
I have tried various approaches to using Airfoil on several devices to do announcements which have all been problematic. Alexa has this down, but it's hard to get her to make a custom announcement based off an indigo action. I currently have routines that listen for "Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc..." Each routine runs a unique announcement. So if my wife's code is used to unlock the front door, the Mac speaker next to my echo dot speaks "Alexa, run Bravo", then that routine is launched to welcome her / let everyone know Mom's home.
Hopefully, Alexa will expand to trigger routines off lights. Right now they only trigger off voice, schedule, echo button, location, and sensor devices (contact or motion).
I could hack a button and connect to an I/O device... but that would be one button and one I/O device per routine.