Brian Walker

1. Help Articles
2. Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri and SMS
3. How to control your garage doors through Alexa with SimpleCommands

Unfortunately that feature is not available on Android yet. However, it is available via our online portal (www.simplecommands.com/dashboard) so you can everything up there and just let SimpleComma...

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• Created April 03, 2019 02:39
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1. Help Articles
2. Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri and SMS
3. How to control your garage doors through Alexa with SimpleCommands

You're welcome! We are very glad to enable users to use their tech the way they way. Have you tried using Locations trigger to control your garage door based on your location? With that type of Rou...

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• Created April 03, 2019 00:58
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1. Help Articles
2. Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri and SMS
3. How to control your garage doors through Alexa with SimpleCommands

Thanks for the hack Jigar! I'll add a section about it in the article so everyone can prompt the Routines more naturally.

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• Created April 02, 2019 14:40
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3. MyQ/LiftMaster

Hi K, Since Alexa does not directly recognize garage doors, make sure you are using SimpleCommands Routines to control MyQ through Alexa. Once you discovery these Routines make sure to phrase your...

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• Created March 08, 2019 15:15
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3. How to get garage door status using Alexa linked to SimpleCommands Scene

Hi Armenak, We are working on creating custom voice responses for our Alexa integration. Before that is done Alexa will not be able to relay the status of your garage door. I suggest running the cl...

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• Edited March 04, 2019 16:44
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3. Unable to get simple commands devices to show up in Alexa. Works with Google Home

Great! I'm glad you both got it up and running.

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• Created February 04, 2019 21:14
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3. Unable to get simple commands devices to show up in Alexa. Works with Google Home

Bill,   I am going to open a support ticket for your issue. Please be on the lookout for an email from our Zendesk page.   Best, John

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• Created February 04, 2019 20:33
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3. Unable to get simple commands devices to show up in Alexa. Works with Google Home

Hi Bill,   Please try again. I updated the page permissions.

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• Created February 04, 2019 20:27
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3. Unable to get simple commands devices to show up in Alexa. Works with Google Home

Bill and Andrew,   Alexa is not currently directly compatible with certain device types, include all types of doors. To enable control of these device types with SimpleCommands you will need to cre...

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Yes! You can control both of your lights via Alexa and Siri with one bridge. And then you can use SimpleCommands to manage all of your devices in a single, easy to use location!

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• Created October 04, 2018 15:05
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