controlling Hive with Amazon Echo

builder22 · 25 Oct 2020 at 19:55

there's recently been an update to the Hive skill/commands on Amazon Echo

before the update I used to say 'Echo, heating xx degrees xx minutes' to boost the heating or 'Echo, switch on the xxxxx' to switch on a plug

after the update if you say anything related to Hive it now says 'You have Hive enabled, do you want to open it'...then you need to reply... it opens then starts giving examples of what you can do 'I can boost the heating' etc etc

but not every time...seems random whether it just works as it was previously or if it has to go through the 'You have Hive enabled, do you want to open it' stages

any ideas on how to avoid the 'you have hive enabled.....' part? and just use the commands that used to work

cheers!

rah^ · 26 Oct 2020 at 09:43

"Echo tell hive to" then some commands work like this boost is an example

It's weird though as some commands still work like old

"Echo set upstairs to XX degrees"

memyselfandi · 27 Oct 2020 at 18:39

I've always used "Alexa, ask Hive to ...."

builder22 · 27 Oct 2020 at 21:05

rah^ said:
"Echo tell hive to" then some commands work like this boost is an example

It's weird though as some commands still work like old

"Echo set upstairs to XX degrees"

memyselfandi said:
I've always used "Alexa, ask Hive to ...."

yeah cheers it works if you start with 'ask/tell hive to' I just liked how little you had to say to boost the heating before the update, literally just 'echo, heating 25 degrees 40 minutes'

I'll just have to get used to the new (old) way

builder22 · 27 Oct 2020 at 21:09

actually - 'Echo, thermostat 22 degrees one hour' works

, so need to say thermostat instead of heating...so have changed the thermostat name to heating and all back to normal now!

NickK · 29 Oct 2020 at 21:57

Misread the title - “How to control Hives with the Liverpool Echo”.

Relentless81 · 29 Oct 2020 at 22:03

You've figured it out now but Alexa seems to want the device name for some commands so referring to "heating" won't work

I have to refer to it as "Home" because for some reason that's the thermostat name, got used to it now and CBA to change it but "Alexa set home to schedule" works and then "Alexa turn the heating off works too" but "Alexa set the heating to schedule" doesn't, weird