How To Close Garage Door With Alexa

Create myq and alexa routine.

How to close garage door with alexa.

One with an open garage door action and one with a close garage door action triggers are not required. 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. Once this process is done these routines will appear under the scenes menu in the alexa app. There are no instructions on how to set the pin in either the myq app or the alex a app.

Trigger close garage door. Follow the steps below to create an alexa routine so you don t have to say the word trigger in front of your command. After this run discovery in the alexa app or ask alexa to discover devices. Now you are able to control your garage doors with your voice.

In this article we will open and close our garage door using the amazon echo. You created an ifttt applet for alexa to close a myq garage door. 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. Very simple fix and it works every time.

Alexa does not always respond to alexa ask my q. In my install i only use my opener to close the garage door in the evening using a scheduled alexa routine. 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. To open the door you need to supply a pin.

So for best alexa results we recommend following our tested commands for alexa that have worked consistently. 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. 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. Since the device driver has the switch capability i just created to alexa routines.