Alexa / Google home support

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Alexa / Google home support

sgouedj opened this issue 9 months ago · comments

Hi,
is it possible to add a function to control the nuki hub with Alexa or Google home?
Thanks you

Jan-Ole Schümann · Answer 1 · Tue Nov 07 2023 23:13:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The short answer is I'm not sure, I have no experience with both. But I guess it's nothing that's easy to add, it'll probably need software support on Alexa or google home.

sgouedj · Answer 2 · Wed Nov 08 2023 03:34:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

hello,
It's not very difficult, there is a dedicated library "fauxmoesp" for that. I used it to order a shutter..but I don't know how to integrate it into your great nuki hub project.
Source and example here: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/alexa-echo-with-esp32-and-esp8266/
Thanks

Der Mundschenk & Compagnie · Answer 3 · Wed Nov 08 2023 04:39:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Personally I think that is something that should be done with a home automation solution, not on the ESP.

Jan-Ole Schümann · Answer 4 · Wed Nov 08 2023 21:11:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I agree, it's not the philosophy behind NUKI Hub to support all kind of systems. You connect both NUKI Hub and Alexa/Google with your smart home solution (Home assistant, iobroker, openhab, ...) and whenever Alexa sends a command, your smart home solution will forward it to NUKI Hub via MQTT.