With the Simple Control Custom Skill and Alexa, you can now interact with your Simple Control devices by voice. To get started, select the ‘Enable Skill’ button in the Alexa App to link your Simple Control account.
Requires Simple Control for iOS with Simple Service, and a designated Simple Hub running on an iOS, tvOS, or macOS device. Simple Control must be paired with Simple Hub, signed in to your Simple Control account, and Simple Hub must be running in order to accept commands.
Simple Control provides two Alexa skills: a Custom Skill (this skill) and a Smart Home Skill. We recommend adding both for full functionality. This Custom Skill provides more fine-grained, detailed ways to address Activities, Devices, and Rooms than the simpler Smart Home skill. Both require Simple Service and Simple Hub.
After linking your Amazon Alexa app with the Simple Control Custom Skill, commands are phrase in the following ways.
Alexa, tell Simple Control to ...
For example, to start an Activity called Listen to Sonos in a Room named Office, you could say:
Alexa, tell Simple Control to Listen to Sonos in the Office
Keep the following in mind when structuring your Custom skill command phrases:
• Suggested Room names: Bedroom, Kitchen, Office, Living Room, Family Room, Dining Room, Parlor, Theater, Kid's Room, Kid's bedroom, Baby's Room, Baby's bedroom, Nursery, Guest Room, Guest bedroom, Bath, Bathroom, Restroom, Basement, Great Room, Drawing Room, Gym, Garage, Library, Patio, Cellar, Hall.
Recommended Activity suffixes (these would be preceded by the normal prefixes, like Watch, Listen to, Play, and so on): TV, Television, Roku, Dish, TiVo, Plex, Sonos, Receiver, Music, Lights, Shades, Blu-ray, DirecTV, Fire TV, Fireplace TV, Kitchen TV, Apple TV, Mac, Camera, Power Off, System Off.
Make sure to adhere to standard Activity names as generated by Simple Control, such as “Watch TiVo” or “Listen to Sonos”. Non-standard Activity names have a higher probability of not being correctly recognized.
• When referring to Rooms and Activities, use Rooms and Activities that are currently configured in Simple Control.
• Not all command phrases need to specify an Activity and a Room. Instead, if the context of the command phrase is clear, the additional information does not need to be included.
For example, if you give the command phrase:
Alexa, tell Simple Control to set the current Room to Office
Simple Control would set the current Room to the Office.
Then if you wanted to mute the current Activity in the Office, the next command phrase would only need to be:
Alexa, tell Simple Control to mute
The Room context is clear, so it does not need to be part of the command phrase.
Common Custom Skill Command Phrases
• Setting the Room: Alexa, tell Simple Control to set the current Room to Office
• Starting an Activity: Alexa, tell Simple Control to Listen to Sonos
• Powering off: Alexa, tell Simple Control to power off the Living Room
• Muting: Alexa, tell Simple Control to mute Home
• Unmuting: Alexa, tell Simple Control to unmute Kitchen
• Playing: Alexa, tell Simple Control to play in Living Room
• Pausing: Alexa, tell Simple Control to pause the Kitchen
• Next: Alexa, tell Simple Control to skip to the next chapter in Office
• Previous: Alexa, tell Simple Control to go back a scene on Listen to Sonos
• Volume up: Alexa, tell Simple Control to increase the volume to 20
• Volume down: Alexa, tell Simple Control to decrease Watch TV volume in Office
• Setting the volume: Alexa, tell Simple Control to set volume to 25
If your Device supports volume in decibels, you could say:
Alexa, tell Simple Control to set volume to “20 decibels” or “minus 10 DB”.
If you have any questions, please see the Simple Control Alexa Custom Skill KnowledgeBase article at https://www.simplecontrol.com/knowledgebase/alexacustomskill/
Support is available via http://www.simplecontrol.com/support
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