HOMECINEMAS Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 How can I activate Alexa on my Control4 System in Austria ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Can you activate alexa at all in Austria? Sent from my STV100-1 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vstar Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 https://beebom.com/how-to-set-up-and-use-amazon-echo-outside-us/ keep in mind that it only understands English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOMECINEMAS Posted April 11, 2017 Author Share Posted April 11, 2017 @ msgreenf Yes I can activate Alexa, but if I try to open the Skies, i can not found Control4 ... @ vstar Ok I will try this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vstar Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 1 minute ago, HOMECINEMAS said: @ msgreenf Yes I can activate Alexa, but if I try to open the Skies, i can not found Control4 ... @ vstar Ok I will try this. myself and many others have used it successfully in Canada (not officially supported). when i initially set it up it was very temperamental and i think i had to try setting up the control4 skill at least 3 or 4 times (doing nothing different) before it took. i vaguely recall others reporting the same issue in an old thread when the skill first came out. i will see if i can find that thread for you. hopefully after several retries it will work for you also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vstar Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vstar Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 also presumable you know this already but the native control4 driver/skill require a current 4sight subscription. FYI (in case you were not aware) there is a 3rd party driver that does not have this limitation that you may not have seen? this driver was written prior to the native support by control4. https://www.epic-systems.com/products/amazon-echo-driver-for-control4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 4 hours ago, vstar said: https://beebom.com/how-to-set-up-and-use-amazon-echo-outside-us/ keep in mind that it only understands English. Are you sure? Alexa has been officially supported in Germany since last September. Therefore I would have to think that it would understand German. I am guessing that one of the things holding back support here in Canada is support for the French language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOMECINEMAS Posted April 11, 2017 Author Share Posted April 11, 2017 Yes ALEXA understand and support GERMAN, the problem is only to activate my Account with ALEXA and the C4 Skill... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vstar Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 4 hours ago, zaphod said: Are you sure? Alexa has been officially supported in Germany since last September. Therefore I would have to think that it would understand German. I am guessing that one of the things holding back support here in Canada is support for the French language. sorry I stand corrected. I did not realize they started supporting other languages other than English. And yes you are most likely correct about the French thing. Surprised they didn't do Spanish after English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 7 hours ago, HOMECINEMAS said: Yes ALEXA understand and support GERMAN, the problem is only to activate my Account with ALEXA and the C4 Skill... To the best of my knowledge Alexa C4 skills are currently only available (certified) for the USA, UK and Ireland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOMECINEMAS Posted April 12, 2017 Author Share Posted April 12, 2017 Cyknight You are right, but I want to try it and we don't know when Alexa C4 skills will be available in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 @HOMECINEMAS - Why not use the Epic Systems C4 driver. I don't think it requires the same "official" support that the C4 driver does - I have been using it in Canada for many months, and it doesn't require a 4sight subscription. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 14 hours ago, Cyknight said: To the best of my knowledge Alexa C4 skills are currently only available (certified) for the USA, UK and Ireland Available in South Africa also... not certified! And probably a loop hole ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOMECINEMAS Posted April 12, 2017 Author Share Posted April 12, 2017 @zaphod Thank you, I will try it asap ! Thank you all for your Help! Greetings from Vienna Roland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Leeds UK Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 You can use the epic driver with alexa, we did that while we waited for the c4 Skill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOMECINEMAS Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 Thank you all for your Support. I bought the EPIC System Driver and it works great! Roland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOMECINEMAS Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 In my Customer's House are 8x Amazon Echo's. In each Room and each Floor are one Amazon Echo. In each Floor and each Room are Systems with TV, Netflix, DVD....etc. How could this work? If I stay in the Living Room and want to Watch DVD. So I say: -Alexa "Turn On DVD" Will all "8" DVD Players are turning on in the House - in every Room? What can I do, to Turn on only the DVD Player in the Living Room? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT Slider Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 HOMECINEMAS . . . Doesn't work that way. You will need to specify a key word for each device (i.e. - living dvd, master dvd, etc.). Once Amazon allows for multiple accounts on the echo, then you would be able to assign separate accounts to each Echo and do exactly what you want (from a more generic command). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 or when AVS has a concept of rooms and is "room aware" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 To be honest the DVD issue is no different than lights. You can't just say "Alexa turn on the light". You have to specify which light, at least you do in the Epic Systems driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 3 minutes ago, zaphod said: To be honest the DVD issue is no different than lights. You can't just say "Alexa turn on the light". You have to specify which light, at least you do in the Epic Systems driver. you have to specify which lights in all implementations (even basic wemo/hue without C4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOMECINEMAS Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 Many thanks to all of you. I could also give each individual amazon echo a separate account? But then I have to buy for each echo its own driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 I don't think it is a big deal to specify exactly which one, but your client may feel differently. I have gotten quite used to saying "Alexa turn on kitchen counter lights" or "Alexa, bedroom blinds down". Anyhow - this is has been one of the most requested feature enhancements since the Echo was introduced - in homes with multiple Echos for Alexa to know which Echo you are talking to and take that into account in the commands that you issue. But for some reason Amazon has yet to add that feature. But there are still reasons to want to control stuff in another room. It can take your AV equipment 30-60 seconds to all turn on, warm up, boot up, etc. So I will occasionally want to turn on my Media Room AV, which is in the basement, before I go downstairs so that it is ready to go when I get there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOMECINEMAS Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 Understood, thank you all for your reply ! Roland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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