Controlicz - Easy Domoticz to Alexa Integration Topic is solved

[quack3d]

@Madgeni What are your thoughts for the future of Controlicz? Do you reckon the server usage is small enough to be driven solely by donations or do you have to charge a sum down the line?

[Madgeni]

Hi - well, i'm not sure
it's costing me about $25-$30 a month as it is.

I'm hoping to add google integration (fighting their oauth2 request at the moment), which will allow not just google home, but "Ok Google" to any android phone/device.
Then, possibly (probably?) a chatbot - send a text "what's the status of my devices?" "turn on/off/etc device x"

All these will drive up the costs, especially as i'd like to then make it more robust infrastructurally. Luckily for you guys, Amazon don't allow me to charge for the Alexa Skill

[heggink]

So we need to motivate you to keep doing this . On vacation now but will donate later.

[deennoo]

Hi - well, i'm not sure
it's costing me about $25-$30 a month as it is.

I'm hoping to add google integration (fighting their oauth2 request at the moment), which will allow not just google home, but "Ok Google" to any android phone/device.
Then, possibly (probably?) a chatbot - send a text "what's the status of my devices?" "turn on/off/etc device x"

All these will drive up the costs, especially as i'd like to then make it more robust infrastructurally. Luckily for you guys, Amazon don't allow me to charge for the Alexa Skill

If There is à pay app for Google home i'm'ready for it, if There is à chat bit more ready than n other, but think to Made à lite version to test. Maybe you Can spoke with team who Made Domoticz Android apps, surely your job are complementary

[Madgeni]

I'd gladly allow the domoticz app team to use my integrations and the oauth2 piece, which provides a nice, secure method of at least authenticating people, but I think these are complementary services.
I will certainly get google working (once i've fixed the authentication issue!), which I think will be good for lots of people, then we'll see about the rest

I'm quite incentivised, i enjoy this stuff, and very pleased people are getting some use out of it - i wanted to make my original code as easy to use as possible - Controlicz isn't going anywhere but will keep an eye on the costs of course

[Clabs1]

ok, at the airport bored, change to default 443 made - someone want to test it?

I had a try but can't get it to work. This could be any manner of things as I've never used room plans before so have just set a couple up to play.

I still can't seem to leave the port section blank so have put 443 in there; is it then trying to go to https://www.example.com/domoticz:443?

Clabs

[Madgeni]

Ok, I'll take a look, see if I can come up with a solution

[Madgeni]

ok, at the airport bored, change to default 443 made - someone want to test it?

I had a try but can't get it to work. This could be any manner of things as I've never used room plans before so have just set a couple up to play.

I still can't seem to leave the port section blank so have put 443 in there; is it then trying to go to https://www.example.com/domoticz:443?

Clabs

can you try specifying port as 9999, and see what happens?

[Clabs1]

can you try specifying port as 9999, and see what happens?

Still no luck unfortunately

[Madgeni]

ok, can you PM me your email address? I'll take a look, see what's happening

[Madgeni]

Hi - just a gentle reminder, if you've found this useful, can you please leave a review on Amazon? Thank you

Also, a huge thanks to those of you who've donated, thank you very much!

[quack3d]

-What is the temperature of home? -Sorry, I couldn't find the answer to your question.
-What is home set to? -Home is set to 15,6.

Perhaps because Home is Temp + Humidity?

Also, looks like setting Alexa_Name:Outside won't work as it selects the location of the Echo instead.

[Madgeni]

Some of that is alexa's fault, as you've demonstrated I think it has some implicit words, and some of 'Get' language needs work from them!

[Clabs1]

ok, can you PM me your email address? I'll take a look, see what's happening

Hi madgeni,

I don't appear to be able to send pms; I've tried to reply to this but it is just say in my outbox. Either that or I've sent it several times.

If you dunt mind pming me your email I'll reply to that?

Clabs

[Bluelightcrew]

I have a question, maybe it's a stupid question. But I don't understand it.
I have an Alexa running with Domoticz works great thanks for your work madgeni. But why I need an extra DNS service and my.domoticz.com? Isn't Mydomoticz like a DNS?

[korneel]

Hey Madgeni,

Thanks for the Alexa Skill. I just got it to work. It took me embarrassingly too long to get it working.
Issue was: I put in my entire url (including https://). So I was thinking maybe you could add the following from bootstrap to that field:

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<div class="input-group">
<div class="input-group-addon">https://</div>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="hostname" value="">
</div>

Might save some others some iterations.
Thanks!

[Madgeni]

Hi korneel,
Im away for a week and a bit, but can add some validation if required. Appreciate the feedback!

[Zap]

Hi Madgeni,

I've tried the german version of Controlicz and it works really good except one thing.
Don't know if someone is mentioned it already but when I ask for temperature in a room, Alexas pronunciation is not correct.
She's saying it like a date because she get the value with a . seperated and not with a , as it is usual
It is possible to convert it in the german skill or is there another way to change this behaviour?

Thanks

[Madgeni]

Thats what it used to do, but assumed if it was still doing this, someone would have shouted sooner!
I'm away, but will look at it over the weekend.
It's an issue with alexa, but I might be able to work round it.

[Madgeni]

I'm afraid the get temperature requests are only available for English UK & US at the moment. As soon as it's available for DE, it should just work. I can't override the decimal point in the message I send back, Alexa wont accept it.