Usage

Usage

After completing setup of haaska, associate the Skill with Alexa by browsing to 'Skills' in the Alexa App (Mobile or Web) and clicking 'Your Skills". Find your skill, click on it, and click enable. Go though the Amazon authentication flow and when finished, click on Discover Devices or tell Alexa: "Alexa, discover my devices."

If there is an issue you can go to Menu / Smart Home in the web or mobile app and have Alexa forget all devices, and then do the discovery again. To prevent duplicate devices from appearing, ensure that the emulated_hue component of Home Assistant is not enabled.

Then you can say "Alexa, turn on the office light" or whatever name you have given your configured devices.

Here is the table of possible commands to use to tell Alexa what you want to do:

To do this...	Say this...
ON Commands
Alexa, turn on <Device Name>
Alexa, start <Device Name>
Alexa, unlock <Device Name>
Alexa, open <Device Name>
Alexa, boot up <Device Name>
Alexa, run <Device Name>
Alexa, arm <Device Name>
OFF Commands
Alexa, turn off <Device Name>
Alexa, stop <Device Name> (this one is tricky to get right)
Alexa, stop running <Device Name> (also very tricky)
Alexa, lock <Device Name>
Alexa, close <Device Name>
Alexa, shutdown <Device Name>
Alexa, shut <Device Name>
Alexa, disarm <Device Name>
DIM Commands	<Position> is a percentage or a number 1-10
Alexa, brighten <Device Name> to <Position>
Alexa, dim <Device Name> to <Position>
Alexa, raise <Device Name> to <Position>
Alexa, lower <Device Name> to <Position>
Alexa, set <Device Name> to <Position>
Alexa, turn up <Device Name> to <Position>
Alexa, turn down <Device Name> to <Position>

To see what Alexa thinks you said, you can see the command history 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.