Anyone got an idea how to trigger Alexa routines from Pimatic?

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Hello everyone.

I got a quick question.

Does anyone know how we can trigger Alexa routines from Pimatic? I tried creating some fake hue lights, which does not work. I believe it needs to be a contact sensor or something similar and not a light, to be able to trigger a Alexa routine.

https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/bda9d70c-2f0d-454d-9939-2eb82868cf35/announcing-contact-and-motion-sensor-apis-and-integration-into-alexa-routines-adding-new-home-automation-features-for-customers-and-new-opportunities-for-smart-home-developers

I’m trying to make a party button, which triggers my lights, blinds etc in Pimatic and triggers Alexa to say a sentence and start playing a Spotify playlist.

I can trigger Alexa tts already, so I am just missing the Spotify playlist trigger on Alexa, to have the music start playing, which I would be able to do with Alexa routines. But I have no way of triggering Alexa routines atm.

What are your thoughts?

I figured it out myself.

I made a virtual switch and virtual contact sensor with Smart things with webcore for smart things. Which can be used to trigger Alexa routines.
So the data goes like this.

Pimatic -> IFTTT -> SmartThings -> Webcore -> SmartThings -> Alexa

Works flawlessly and the delay is about half a second which isn’t that bad.

Now I’m able to make my party button.

Watch the results here 😂

https://youtu.be/rT-1gvkFj60

Have a look at:

https://blog.loetzimmer.de/2017/10/amazon-alexa-hort-auf-die-shell-echo.html

For example you can create a rule with a condition:

WHEN irgendetwas
THEN execute “/home/pi/scripts/alexa_remote_control.sh -d Ort -e automation:‘Routine’”