Telldus Alexa Home Skill

Integrates Telldus Live with Alexa as a Smart Home Skill.

Setup

1. In the Global.groovy file, update it with the needed keys. See Telldus documentation for more information

2. Run gradle/gradlew uberjar to build a deployable package of alexa-home-telldus. This will generate a alexa-home-telldus-1.0.jar file that should be uploaded to AWS Lamda

3. Create an Alexa skill and Lambda Function by following these instructions (with the modifications noted below).

   • The name of the Alexa: Telldus-Alexa
   • The name of the Lambda function: Telldus-Alexa-Service
   • Select Runtime: Java8
   • Select lambda_basic_execution for the Lambda role
   • For "Handler", enter "Telldus::handler"
   • Select "Upload a .ZIP or JAR file" for "Code entry type", and upload alexa-home-telldus-1.0.jar that you created in the previous step.
   • Add Trigger: "Alexa Smart Home"

Usage

After completing setup of alexa-home-telldus, tell Alexa: "Alexa, discover my devices".

Example of commands for Alexa:

• Alexa, turn off the <device name>
• Alexa, turn on the <device name>
• Alexa, set <name> to <number> percent
• Alexa, increase <device name> by <number> percent
• Alexa, decrease <device name> by <number> percent

History of commands to Alexa under Menu / Settings / History in the web or mobile app. To view or remove devices that Alexa knows about, you can go to Menu / Smart Home in the web or mobile app.