Set up a scene named “close garage doors”. It closes all three of my garage doors. It doesn’t work with Alexa voice. I think you can’t have words like garage or door in scene to work with voice commands?
The Alarm.com Smart Home skill for Alexa does not support scenes. However, the Alarm.com Skill is compatible with Scenes.
Most of the Alexa related documentation through Alarm.com is pretty bare bones and I’m not seeing anything that suggests those specific words (Garage or Door) can or cant be used. Have you tried renaming the scene to something more unique that does not involve those words as a test?
Ive tried different words and it does not work.
Is the word “scene” required to run scenes? Maybe with some sort of shortcut?
Its just a lot to say. “Alexa, tell alarm.com to run the car door scene”
Here are examples of running scene commands from ADC:
The example commands are on a scene named Wake Up.
“Alexa, tell Alarm.com to Wake Up.”
“Alexa, tell Alarm.com to run Wake Up scene.”
Naming the scene with “Garage Doors” or other command related words like “close” in the name is probably throwing off Alexa attempting to map what you are asking.
Name it something unique. Try naming the scene something like “Seal the perimeter” as a test.
Use the command: “Alexa, tell Alarm.com to seal the perimeter”
Does that work?
Cant find anything that works without saying “scene” at the end and you can not have the words garage or open or close in it or it throws it all off.
I tried words like “dog” and that didnt even work.
However when I say things like “arm stay” I don’t have to say “scene” When I said “secure perimeter” it armed stay.
My theory is that ADC has certain words programmed in that it recognized and has predetermined an association with certain actions. I would love to know these and how they are mapped.