How To Close Garage Door With Alexa

After this run discovery in the alexa app or ask alexa to discover devices.

How to close garage door with alexa.

You created an ifttt applet for alexa to close a myq garage door. Since the device driver has the switch capability i just created to alexa routines. There are no instructions on how to set the pin in either the myq app or the alex a app. The nexx garage is the best smart garage door opener for alexa users but it works with google home too so you can open or close the door using voice commands.

To open the door you need to supply a pin. Very simple fix and it works every time. In this article we will open and close our garage door using the amazon echo. Trigger close garage door.

One with an open garage door action and one with a close garage door action triggers are not required. In my install i only use my opener to close the garage door in the evening using a scheduled alexa routine. But you don t want to start the command with the word trigger. Now you are able to control your garage doors with your voice.

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. 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. So for best alexa results we recommend following our tested commands for alexa that have worked consistently. Once this process is done these routines will appear under the scenes menu in the alexa app.

Alexa nexx garage door close door sometime works sometime doesn t alexa nexx garage door close door 1 does not work alexa nexx garage close door does not work. Alexa does not always respond to alexa ask my q. 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. 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.