Alexa / Amazon Echo: Easy way to control MAX! Thermostats

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@GuybrushMR80
The changes are done. The plugin now supports the Dummy Heatingthermostat and both Max-Plugins.
Please check the changes. install-guide see post #14

After that I will create the pull request.
@michbeck100 is currently preparing a new version for dot2 support.

awesome! I have it a try and I think we’re almost there. Unfortunately whenever I ask Alexa to turn the heater on/off, pimatic seems to freeze. At least I get an “Could not connect (xhr poll error), retrying…”-error in the GUI. I setup the devices with the following parameters:

• hueType: Switch
• active: Yes
• additional names: Wohnzimmerheizung, Heizung im Wohnzimmer
  Alexa finds two devices, based on the names above.

might also be an issue with my Max! setup - when I toggle to eco/comfy it also doesn’t work. The error is “error [pimatic]: Command was rejected”. Not sure if it worked before your changes.
EDIT: Setting the temperature also doesn’t work, same error message. Reading the temperature from the wall thermostats seems to work fine.
EDIT2: OK, for some thermostats it seems to work - from time to time. So the error occurs for some all the time for others not. I was thinking an unstable connection could be the issue but the one that doesn’t work is next to the cube… regardless of the issue I have I think the echo plugin needs to handle the error to avoid crashing pimatic.

@guybrushmr80
the max system should work without the echo. If you have also problems with the max plug-in
your problems are based on that.

The echo plugin only sets temperature like over the GUI.

EDIT:
MAX Commands over the GUI are reliable?!

I used the OS X Max! software and everything works fine with this one. In pimatic I keep getting these “command rejected” errors…
As I said: Even if this is not a Echo specific issue, the plugin shouldn’t cause a crash of pimatic if this problem occurs.
EDIT: Opened a new thread on the Max! error: https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/3902/command-refused-error-with-max-plugin

You are right. Can you post the last log messages and the exception before pimatic freeze please.

debug [pimatic-max]: Response: { accepted: false, duty_cycle: 51, free_memory_slots: 50 }
13:48:02debug [pimatic-echo]: setting state of Wohnzimmerheizung to false
13:48:02debug [pimatic-echo]: changing state for Wohnzimmerheizung: {"{“on”: false}":""}

@guybrushmr80 @kosta Please note that you are using the latest alpha version of pimatic-echo when installing the fork from @kosta. I haven’t tested it completely, so there might be some bugs in there. I think i will get a new version out this weekend.

Very great new feature!! I hope you do the same with the milight plugin only dimming, on, off for the rgb devices would be very great!

The changes of @kosta are merged on GitHub. Feel free to test. Please see https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/2648/pimatic-echo-control-your-pimatic-devices-using-amazon-s-echo/126 for the changeling, as I changed some other parts, too.

https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/3909/pimatic-echo-release-0-4-0

@kosta @michbeck100
is it possible to add the same for “pimatic-fritz” thermostat?

@schmucke
The Fritz thermostats use the standard heating template.
It should work already.

this solution works very well with max thermostat, even terms like “turn heater to 21°” works and actual temperature response “what is the temperature of heater”.

https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/3118/alexa-node-red-skill