because i wanna try the voice control, i saw someone posted here control with Echo Dot

Echo dot alone cannot do much. After adding this and that just to voice control over your tv, it's not worth it trust me
Your tv is controlled by IR, if you get an IR blaster, I still don't see the point.

ok noted, i will buy a led strip and sonoff to test 1st, then install Alexa Pi, no plan for TV and living room downlight 1st... looks like alot of effort needed...

If you don't want to mess with the power cable for your tv with sonoff switch
There's the sonoff s20 uk plug
I'm using one mostly to avoid overcharge my phone (using with tasker, if battery reach 100% it turns off the plug)

Forget Sonoff have a plug type. Always thought Sonoff is inline type.

Unless your phone is old model. New phone will cutoff the charging when it reach full.

Using it mostly to hotspot, I'm still not comfortable just letting it charged the whole time
I've set to turn on the plug when battery drops at low level & turns it off at 100%.

im only using alexa to on off tv, for other settings, too troublesome
need some coding i think

to channel up or down also possible, but u need to ask alexa to tell harmony xxxxxxxxx, and u need another smart home app in alexa skills

Can you share how is the experience?
looking to get the harmony hub to integrate with echo, since they already have a skill for it. Did you get it locally? can you share where?

Thanks!

nothing much to experience, hahah
i think practically im using harmony for my fan (grouping with other living hall lights) and one of my amp which i dont have the remote for

the auto turn on n off tv just a gimmick to show frens how it works when they come over

bought the harmony hub from ebay, refurbished set, for about half the price

most of my controls are link up thru alexa + vera, the harmony just compliments it abit

It's easy to setup, just ask alexa to scan for new devices and it will add the devices/fav channels you've already added in harmony
Just need to work on the accent a bit lol when turning on fav channel

@alucard, how you link ar?
i cant get it to specifically to on netflix
(netflix is built in)

Sonoff can detect your phone level low and turn ON auto than detect 100% charge and turn OFF auto ?

Actually you miss understand the overcharge meaning. Overcharging for battery is not mean plug in forever on and spoil the battery.

It is very wrong information.

I just switch input to my amazon tv fire stick for netflix
Your tv remote has no netflix button? Which tv model are you using now?

No, that's all tasker's job, detect battery level and sends action to sonoff s20
Nevertheless I'm not to keen leaving the phone charged the whole time with hotspot on

Btw, anyone here using google home? Got discount till 12 noon tomorrow
Good enough against amazon echo?

This post has been edited by alucard89: May 13 2017, 01:42 AM

Sorry, I still have trouble to understand your explain.

What you mean this ? "detect battery level and sends action to sonoff s20"

Is this sonoff s20 have some sensor capability to detect battery level ?

Cause I search around the s20 infor and didn't said any sensor level built in.

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Lazada Deal.

I meant Tasker app, it's doing the the monitoring & send action

Tasker only available on Android right?

buy buy buy....

So it is the phone send the battery full signal to the apps and apps execute shut off the sonoff.

Not the hardware itself have the sensor built in.

Understand.