How To Close Garage Door With Alexa

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.

How to close garage door with alexa.

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. Now you are able to control your garage doors with your voice. Trigger close garage door. Alexa does not always respond to alexa ask my q.

To open the door you need to supply a pin. Since the device driver has the switch capability i just created to alexa routines. In this article we will open and close our garage door using the amazon echo. 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.

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. Very simple fix and it works every time. There are no instructions on how to set the pin in either the myq app or the alex a app. After this run discovery in the alexa app or ask alexa to discover devices.

But you don t want to start the command with the word trigger. 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. 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.

Create myq and alexa routine. Follow the steps below to create an alexa routine so you don t have to say the word trigger in front of your command. You created an ifttt applet for alexa to close a myq garage door. Amazon echo activated garage door.