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<h1 id="amazon-alexa-skill">Amazon Alexa Skill</h1>
<p>An intelligent voice guided personal assistant. Amazon Alexa became famous by the Amazon Echo speaker but is also available through independent solutions. The certified openHAB Alexa skill allows to naturally control the openHAB smart home by voiced commands.</p>
<p>This page describes how to use the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/openHAB-Foundation/dp/B01MTY7Z5L">openHAB Alexa Smart Home Skill</a>.
The skill connects your openHAB setup through the <a href="http://myopenHAB.org">myopenHAB.org</a> cloud service to Amazon Alexa.
(See <a href="https://github.com/openhab/openhab-alexa/blob/master/README.md">this document</a> for other setup options and development information.)</p>
<p>With this skill you can control Items that respond to on/off and numeric commands.
The skill as well has limited support for thermostats.
Currently supported are the English (U.S.), English (U.K.), and German language.</p>
<h2 id="general-configuration-instructions">General Configuration Instructions</h2>
<h3 id="requirements">Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://docs.openhab.org/addons/ios/openhabcloud/readme.html">openHAB Cloud Connector</a> configured using myopenHAB.org</li>
<li>Amazon account</li>
<li>Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot or compatible Alexa speaker or solution (e.g. <a href="https://reverb.ai/">Reverb</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="1-item-configuration">1. Item Configuration</h3>
<p>Items are exposed to Alexa through the use of tags which follow the <a href="http://docs.openhab.org/addons/ios/homekit/readme.html">HomeKit</a> binding tagging syntax.
See the <a href="http://docs.openhab.org/addons/ios/hueemulation/readme.html">Hue Emulation</a> and <a href="http://docs.openhab.org/addons/ios/homekit/readme.html">HomeKit Add-on</a> documentation for details about tagging and available tags.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Items via .items - File</strong></p>
<p>See <a href="http://docs.openhab.org/configuration/items.html#item-definition-and-syntax">Item Definition and Syntax</a></p>
<p>Some examples of tagged items are:</p>
<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="n">Switch</span> <span class="n">Kitchen_Light</span> <span class="s">"Kitchen Light"</span> <span class="o"><</span><span class="n">light</span><span class="o">></span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">gKitchen</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="s">"Lighting"</span><span class="o">]</span> <span class="o">{</span><span class="n">channel</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"..."</span><span class="o">}</span>
<span class="n">Dimmer</span> <span class="n">Bedroom_Light</span> <span class="s">"Bedroom Light"</span> <span class="o"><</span><span class="n">light</span><span class="o">></span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">gBedroom</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="s">"Lighting"</span><span class="o">]</span> <span class="o">{</span><span class="n">channel</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"..."</span><span class="o">}</span>
<span class="n">Number</span> <span class="n">Bedroom_Temperature</span> <span class="s">"Bedroom Temperature"</span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">gBedroom</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="s">"CurrentTemperature"</span><span class="o">]</span> <span class="o">{</span><span class="n">channel</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"..."</span><span class="o">}</span>
<span class="n">Group</span> <span class="n">gDownstairsThermostat</span> <span class="s">"Downstairs Thermostat"</span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">gFF</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="s">"Thermostat"</span><span class="o">]</span>
<span class="n">Number</span> <span class="n">Downstairs_Thermostat_CurrentTemp</span> <span class="s">"Downstairs Thermostat Current Temperature"</span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">gDownstairsThermostat</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="s">"CurrentTemperature"</span><span class="o">]</span>
<span class="n">Number</span> <span class="n">Downstairs_Thermostat_Target_Temperature</span> <span class="s">"Downstairs Thermostat Target Temperature"</span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">gDownstairsThermostat</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="s">"TargetTemperature"</span><span class="o">]</span>
<span class="n">String</span> <span class="n">Downstairs_Thermostat_Heating_Cooling_Mode</span> <span class="s">"Downstairs Thermostat Heating/Cooling Mode"</span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">gDownstairsThermostat</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="s">"homekit:HeatingCooling"</span><span class="o">]</span>
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<p><strong>Other Configuration Options</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The interactive REST API interface available through the openHAB 2 dashboard</li>
<li>PaperUI does not yet allow manipulation of tags</li>
</ul>
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<h4 id="item-label-recommendation">Item Label Recommendation</h4>
<p>Matching of voice commands to Items happens based on the Item label (e.g. “Kitchen Light”).
It is therefore advisable, to choose labels that can be used to form natural commands.
As an example, compare “Alexa, turn on the <em>Kitchen Light</em>” vs. “Alexa, turn on the <em>Ground Floor LEDs Kitchen</em>”.</p>
<p>In combination with the Alexa skill (and other similar services) you are thereby tempted to break with your naming scheme and introduce confusion into your setup.
openHAB Tip: YOu may define multiple Items bound to one channel.
Instead of manipulating the label of one single Item, you can define multiple Items specifically for voice commands.
See the following example:</p>
<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="c1">// Common/main Item bound to a binding channel</span>
<span class="n">Switch</span> <span class="n">Kitchen_Light</span> <span class="s">"Ground Floor LEDs Kitchen"</span> <span class="o"><</span><span class="n">light</span><span class="o">></span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">gKitchen</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">{</span><span class="n">channel</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"..."</span><span class="o">}</span>
<span class="c1">// Two Items with labels fitting for voice commands, bound to the same binding channel</span>
<span class="n">Switch</span> <span class="n">Kitchen_Light_A</span> <span class="s">"Kitchen Light"</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="s">"Lighting"</span><span class="o">]</span> <span class="o">{</span><span class="n">channel</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"..."</span><span class="o">}</span>
<span class="n">Switch</span> <span class="n">Kitchen_Light_A2</span> <span class="s">"Kitchen LEDs"</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="s">"Lighting"</span><span class="o">]</span> <span class="o">{</span><span class="n">channel</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"..."</span><span class="o">}</span>
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<h3 id="2-skill-configuration">2. Skill Configuration</h3>
<ol>
<li>Visit the <a href="https://alexa.amazon.com/">Alexa website</a> or use the Alexa app on your mobile device.</li>
<li>Navigate to “Smart Home” -> “Configure Smart Home” and search for openHAB.</li>
<li>Follow the instructions to authorize Alexa using your myopenhab.org account.</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="3-final-configuration">3. Final Configuration</h3>
<p>After tagging your items you can go back to the Alexa application and search for devices.</p>
<h3 id="example-voice-commands">Example Voice Commands</h3>
<p>Here are some example voice commands:</p>
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<li>“Alexa, turn on the Kitchen Light”</li>
<li>“Alexa, turn off the Kitchen Light”</li>
<li>“Alexa, dim the Kitchen Lights to 30 percent”</li>
<li>“Alexa, what’
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