[pimatic-echo] Release 0.4.0

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Just released version 0.4.0 with these features:

• support for thermostats (https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/3857/alexa-amazon-echo-easy-way-to-control-max-thermostats)
• support for the new Echo
• switches are now shown as switches. The support just on and off. Just lights are dimmable from now on.

Already found the first glitch and released 0.4.1

Oh, and would be great if you could buy a . These changes took me last two evenings. (see my signature ) And daddy needs a new echo

Hello, I upgraded to version 0.4.2 today. Unfortunately my button device does not work anymore. In Alexa App appears “Device does not respond”. In version 0.4.1 it worked great.

@mathias_lehmann could you please try to remove the buttons from Alexa? And then scan for your devices again. The id for button devices changed with 0.4.2. I guess Alexa doesn’t find the „old“ buttons anymore.

@mathias_lehmann You were right, there was bug in my changes for 0.4.2. Just released 0.4.3. The bug is squashed!

It works great again in version 0.4.3. Thank you

@michbeck100 said in [pimatic-echo] Release 0.4.0:

• switches are now shown as switches. The support just on and off. Just lights are dimmable from now on.

Since the last updates the groups in Alexa don’t work anymore. Alexa only switches lamps, no switches!

With Hue lamps everything is still working fine, with HomeduinoRFSwitch (WeMo Switch) Alexa says that she has “not found light”.

Can you change that again?

@wajowi not sure what you mean. I have a group configured in the Alexa app that contains 3 switches and I can easily switch the complete group at once.

@michbeck100 Really?

I have two Hue lamps and two switches in a group. When I say, “Alexa, turn on the light.” only the Hue lamps are switched on.

In other groups where there are only switches, Alexa says,“I didn’t find light.”

But with version 0.3.x it still worked!

@wajowi how is the group called? What happens if you say “switch on [group_name]”?

@michbeck100 It works with the group name. But the point of the group is that you can always switch on the light with the same command (Alexa, turn on the light).

This has worked so far.

How can I change to the previous version of the plugin?

@wajowi https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/1114/updated-how-to-install-a-plugin-from-github-using-npm-or-git

@wajowi I don’t get it. How yan you just say “switch on the light” and a complete group is switched on? Where is the connection to the group name?

@michbeck100 The connection is the echo (dot). I have several echoes and when I am in the room where there is an echo in a group, it turns on all the lamps in the group with the “Light on” command.

@michbeck100 said in [pimatic-echo] Release 0.4.0:

@wajowi https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/1114/updated-how-to-install-a-plugin-from-github-using-npm-or-git

I have now reinstalled v0.3.1. As Lux Light everything works as described above.

@wajowi The next release will switch back to hue lights emulation only. It seems that WeMo switches are not working properly

Version 0.4.5 is released. It basically reverted the WeMo support. All switches act like hue lights again.

@michbeck100 Perfect! v0.4.5 works with groups again…

Could someone using the new echo comment if this version works for him, too?