HomePilot

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You can use this skill to operate your RADEMACHER HomePilot® Smart Home system simply and comfortably with your voice.

In addition to roller shutters, Venetian blinds and lighting, the HomePilot® interlinks up to 100 other electronic devices.

Commissioning:

To control your HomePilot® with Alexa, you must first activate the skill and then link it to your HomePilot® using your WR Connect account information. To do this, you will be automatically redirected.

Enable devices for Alexa:

The HomePilot® does not automatically enable devices for Alexa. This means that you can exclude the remote control or operation of safety-critical devices (e.g. garage door) via Alexa.
Devices can be manually enabled through “Voice control” in the device settings.

• To do this, open the HomePilot® app
• Select the device you want to control and go to “Voice control” in the device settings
• Check the “Alexa” box there*

Search for devices:

Now you can get Alexa to search for your Smart Home devices. How to do this:
• “Search devices” Alexa app function
• Or with the voice command “Alexa, find my smart devices”

Operate devices:

The following device types are supported:

• Devices that can switch to a position (On/Off), e.g. adapter plug, switch actuator
• Devices that can move to a position (% value), e.g. roller shutter motor, belt winder, dimmer
• Devices that can set a temperature (°C), e.g. radiator actuator, room thermostat

Supported commands:
• “Alexa, switch the ... on/off”
• “Alexa, open/close the ...”*See “Operate group”
• “Alexa, set the ... to ... percent”
• “Alexa, increase/decrease the ... by ... percent”
• “Alexa, set the ... to ... degrees”
• “Alexa, switch on the ... scene”

A device with the device name “Lamp living room” can be switched on with the instruction: “Alexa, switch on the lamp living room”.

NOTE:

Device names:
• Use the clearest possible device names to ensure that Alexa can operate your device reliably.

Device search:
The device search is automatically executed by Alexa cyclically, but can also be started manually. The device names are therefore adapted automatically. A manual search is recommended if:
• New devices are to be added immediately
• Changed device names are to be accepted immediately

Device list, delete devices:
• You can find the devices detected by Alexa in the “Device” menu in the Alexa app
• Important: The device search does not remove deleted devices from the HomePilot®. These can be deleted in the “Devices” menu in the Alexa app.

Operate groups:
You can create groups in the “Devices” menu in the Alexa app. The devices within these groups can then be operated together via a voice command. *Insert (p) or (P) in the device description in the HomePilot to be able to control a group of sun shading devices with the % command.


Execute scenes:
The skill also allows manual scenes to be executed. However, scenes including a garage door drive cannot be executed. Simply check the “Alexa” box in the “Scene configuration” menu in “Voice control”

*Requirements:
• You need a WR Connect account and the HomePilot® you want to control must be accessible through “WR Connect”
• An established Amazon Alexa-enabled device (e,g. Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, etc.)
• Check the “Alexa” box in the “Voice control” menu within the device or scene configuration
• The following applies for HomePilot® versions < 5.x: Add the text “(Alexa)” anywhere in the description to transfer devices/scenes to Alexa
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To use the RADEMACHER HomePilot® skills, it is necessary that data from the enabled devices are transferred to Amazon in encrypted form and stored there.