Hugh Breese
30 years of experience IT guy.
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Hugh Breese commented, Rick, I have gone ahead and removed this from my home automation. I already have an extensive SmartThings implementation and was just using Alexa for voice control of those devices. So, I found a...
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Hugh Breese commented, I don't know if these problems are related to some other issues support is facing right now. Here is a response I received from SimpleCommands support on 7/16/2021: "Sorry for the troubles. The m...
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Hugh Breese commented, Hello Greg, Thanks for the information for setting this up. I do have a question. There are two of us living here. Both of us have a phone (my Android, and her iPhone), and either of us or both ...
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Hugh Breese commented, You are welcome. Glad I could help.
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Hugh Breese commented, JOEL SIMON I noticed that the OP did not mention that you have to create two Routines in SimpleCommands before running the Alexa Device Discovery process. Otherwise, IMO he did a great job of crea...
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Hugh Breese commented, It has now been almost a year since the last request for a timeframe for the Android implementation for Location. Is there an update on this? It would be so cool to be able to have the garage doo...
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Hugh Breese commented, @ Joel I added, enabled, and linked the Simple Commands skill in the Alexa app first. Then I went into Simple Commands on my cellphone and chose "Add/Remove Items. I see mQ - Openers in the list....
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Hugh Breese commented, Mark, I agree that your suggestion would be a simple way to simulate a PIN. When I use Alexa to unlock a Schlage lock I am prompted for the PIN number. Since there are multiple PINs stored in the...
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Hugh Breese commented, Forgive me, but I'm new at this. I can't really find any documentation for how to use features within SimpleCommands. We have multiple people here where the garage door opener is. So, if I want ...
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Hugh Breese commented, This is a really cool feature to control my Chamberlain opener with Alexa .. BUT ... there is no security. So, anyone within vocal range can open my garage door. Over a year ago I requested (via em...