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SmartHome Alexa.TemperatureSensor as a routine trigger
Would be great if SmartHome's Alexa.TemperatureSensor interface is supported as a routine trigger (not the Echo's one but the generic one)
2 votes -
Allow multiple custom commands or skills in a single routine
Presently, if you create a routine and select either custom command or skill, then go to add another one or either of these, the selection gets greyed out thereby not allowing for multiple custom commands or skills in a single routine.
1 vote -
Limit available skills on Specific Alexa device
This is more Alexa core capability, but I would like to see the ability to assign specific skills or routines to specific Alexa devices. For example, if I put an Alexa in my garage, limit the capabilities to playing music and outside lights, so if someone is outside my garage and they yell a command to disable my alarm, it wouldn’t respond.
2 votes -
Sunset offset greater than 60 minutes.
Allow the sunset trigger to be offset by more than 60 minutes, similar to other platforms which allow greater control. Today I have to use a 3rd party to complete a task at sunset minus 90 and can only use Alexa at sunset minus 60. I'd prefer to keep this completely within Alexa.
2 votes -
Control RGB lighting based on thermostat/room temperature
Be able to control the colour of rgb lighting dependent on thermostat temperature or room temperature
1 vote -
Birthday reminders in a routine
I wonder if it would be possible to program a routine that would announce calendar events like birthdays or anniversaries as part of a wake-up program and ask the "recipient" if they want to call the person later that day. And if the "recipient" says yes, then Alexa will both say, "OK I will remind you to call [birthday person] later today" and then make the reminder. But if the person says no or remains silent the routine can progress normally.
1 vote -
Make it possible to program "volume controls" into a routine; for example ramp up the music in a wake up routine.
Make it possible to program "volume controls" into a routine; for example ramp up the music in a wake up routine. I'm using a routine to help my aged mother-in-law get going in the morning while I am at the gym, so that I don't have to start from scratch when I get home. But her complaint is that it is too abrupt. It could also be useful ramping down at the end of the evening.
1 vote -
Allow development skills to be used in routines.
Allow development skills to be used in routines. If we develop a skill, and haven't published it yet, but it is enable and active on our devices then we should be able to use it within a routine (obviously on our own devices).
134 votes -
Add more than one statement as alternative voice command in the same Alexa Routine
It will be better for the user, to add more than one statement as alternative voice command in the same Alexa Routine instead of creating separately.
For example:
A user creates a routine named "I'm home". The tasks under this routine will be executed when the user says to Alexa "Alexa, I'm home".
However, the user may also say
"Alexa, I'm back" or
"Alexa, I return home" or
"Alexa, I enter in sweet home" or
"Alexa, I enter home" or
"Alexa, I'm back to my room" or
"Alexa, I just arrive" or
"Alexa, I arrive home" or
"Alexa, I reach…4 votes -
An advanced web editor for routines
My idea has two parts:
1. Add a web editor for routines also on alexa.amazon.* that works like android/iOS app editor
2. Add also an "advanced mode" where you can directly write code and, maybe, add more complex logic, variables ecc...3 votes -
Do not remove device from routine
Do not remove a device from a routine if it fails to access the device. If I have a lamp turned off and run a routine that tries to turn it on or off, Alexa deletes the device from the routine.
2 votes -
Actionable based notifications
Alexa - I’ve noticed it’s 10 o’clock and the house alarm is not set, would you like me to set it for you?
User - Yes (sets alarm)
User - No (does nothing)2 votes -
Correct / Allow for any smart device as a trigger
Your routines will not allow for any of my light switches or plugs to be used as a trigger, hence switch goes on anounce something as action. This restriction makes no sence and cannot seem to be able to find any smart switches or plugs that will show in the routines device triggers screen.
3 votes -
Alexa’s whisper for routines
Many Alexa users experience the issue of wanting Alexa to whisper on a routine, especially for use of an alarm at night or in the morning. The issue is that many of us wake up even hours before the next person in the house has to wake up, so we can’t use Alexa as the alarm because she has a habit of screaming out her words on routines when you want her to just whisper. It would be great to see the addition of “Alexa whisper” under “device settings” when creating a routine, so that anything Alexa says during the…
24 votes -
Insert a skill at the begin of a routine
I can only use a skill at the end of a routine? Why? I want to start with a skill inside my routine, but I get everytime a message, that this skill must be at the end of a routine.
4 votes -
Monthly schedule
Allow routines to operate in longer schedules and not just days of week. For example, do something every month (e.g. discharge emergency lights to make their batteries live longer)
5 votes -
Change the volume of all devices
Change the volume of all devices, so you can change the volume of all devices at the same time not only a single device. For example if you wrote a routine called “night time” you could set all devices to a lower preset volume so as not to be so loud. Alternatively in the morning you could say “morning and all devices volume could be increased to a preset volume. And so on
12 votes -
Temperature Routine Trigger
It would be great if you could trigger a routine based on outdoor temperature since Alexa is already able to fetch local outdoor weather information.
13 votes -
temperature alarm
The ability for Alexa to use outside temperature as an alarm trigger. "Alexa notify me if the outside temperature is under 72 degrees." A better implementation for Alexa's with a skill like Weather Bug would be "Alexa notify me if the outdoor temperature is [over/under] the indoor temperature." and the perfect implementation would be a standing command to notify me whenever the indoor & outdoor temps transition past each other.
14 votes -
Routines schedule have hourly monthly every minute options
Currently in routines there are repeated schedule options that can only be only configured by daily basis.
There is no options by bi-weekly, monthly, yearly or at certain date, hourly, every 5/10/N minutes.
I want to configure a alexa routine to wish a birthday for my family at certain date every year by turning all my RGB lights on and play some birthday music.
Basically need more schedule options for different intervals by year, monthly date and time. Like a cron job.
3 votes
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