Colly wrote:Could be the case. In any event she (Alexa) is back
The one thing I am working on the moment is to get the status fed back into the Amazon Echo Hub, so the device shows as being "on" in the Amazon Echo App. Not major, but will give me a warm feeling inside
Barilko wrote:I've been checking back for an Alexa solution that didn't involve getting a gen 1 echo and this has been the first hope I've found. I had never heard of node red an hour ago and now I have Alexa control of one of my lights back.
Here's what I did:
Watched a 10 minute youtube video of getting started with node red.
Installed node.js on my mac from here:
https://nodejs.org/en/#home-downloadhead
Ran install for node red from mac terminal:
sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red
Started node red with this command in terminal:
node-red
Connected to node red in browser:
http://127.0.0.1:1880/
From node red menu go to Manage Palette
Click the Install tab
Search for and install both of these:
node-red-contrib-amazon-echo
node-red-contrib-indigo
Dragged the following items into the flow window:
Amazon Echo Hub
Amazon Echo Device
Indigo Set Device
Connect those 3 devices with a wire in that order (Echo Hub - Echo Device - Indigo Set Device)
Hit Deploy (Echo node shows green i.e. connected)
Set the Amazon Echo Device name to "Test Light"
Hit Deploy again
Tell Alexa to discover new devices (Alexa found "Test Light")
Now, double click the indigo device in the flow window to bring up the properties
hit the pencil icon to add details for your indigo server (ip address, port, username, password, and give it name eg. MyIndigoServer)
Hit Deploy Again
Double click the indigo device again and select the controller by the name you gave it in the last step (i.e. MyIndigoServer)
Click the "ItemName" drop down box and you will see the list of your indigo devices
Select the Indigo light you want to control
Click the "Key" drop down" box and select "On/Off State"
Leave the "Value" blank
Hit Deploy again
Now say... "Alexa, turn on the test light".
Mine WORKED!
I haven't tried any dimming yet.
Sorry if I missed anything or if this isn't clear... I'm pretty excited to get this working again so I quickly put out this post in case anyone else wanted to try it.
I'll add a screenshot here of my setup as well.
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