Amazon echo activated garage door.
How to close garage door with alexa.
The routine runs at 9 00 pm every night and in order to ensure that the routine doesn t open an already closed garage door the alexa enabled opener doesn t know if the garage door is open or closed i had to add one more switch that would only be closed when the garage door is open.
Open the garage door this turn on the switch and the door opens close the garage door turns off the switch and the door closes.
It should be noted that this will work with an amazon echo dot or tap this is not the first time alexa has been used to open a garage door but i believe it is one of th.
Very simple fix and it works every time.
To open the door you need to supply a pin.
Since the device driver has the switch capability i just created to alexa routines.
They mention that you can name the door but again there are no instructions on how to set the name in either the myq app or the alexa app.
One with an open garage door action and one with a close garage door action triggers are not required.
Once this process is done these routines will appear under the scenes menu in the alexa app.
Create myq and alexa routine.
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Now you are able to control your garage doors with your voice.
Follow the steps below to create an alexa routine so you don t have to say the word trigger in front of your command.
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Trigger close garage door.
After this run discovery in the alexa app or ask alexa to discover devices.
But you don t want to start the command with the word trigger.
In my install i only use my opener to close the garage door in the evening using a scheduled alexa routine.
In this article we will open and close our garage door using the amazon echo.
Alexa does not always respond to alexa ask my q.