Yeti premium version now supports Alexa voice assistant. You can create charms for your devices and activate them using Alexa voice commands
We’re happy to announce that Yeti has now become compatible with Alexa, one of the best home voice assistants.
Alexa is only available in the Premium version of Yeti. You can upgrade subscribing inside the app. Click here to read more about the premium version of Yeti
From now on, you will enjoy your smart home even more. If you are an active user of Yeti, you will probably have noticed how easy it’s controlling your smart home. But now, we are going further including voice compatibility thanks to Alexa.
What can I do with Yeti and Alexa? You’ll be able to create charms inside Yeti to control multiple devices and set them up with a command voice.
Try to create customised charms for you and see how easy controlling your home can be!
Installing the Yeti app
In order to use the Yeti Alexa Skill, firstly you need to install Yeti and create an account. You’ll need that to link with the Alexa Skill afterwards
Installing the Yeti Skill
First of all you need to install the Yeti Skill in your Alexa device.
Then, click in the “Enable Alexa Skill Yeti Smart Home” link. This will redirect you to the Alexa Skill Store. If you are not logged in, please log in with your Alexa account. You’ll be redirected to the Yeti Skill page inside the Amazon Skill Store
Then click enable and you’ll be redirected to the Yeti Login Page. Log in with your Yeti account credentials.
Important!: Log in with the same account you use in the Yeti app
If everything went well, you’ll see an image like this
You can now close the window to proceed to create charms with Yeti
Creating Charms and making magic with Alexa - Premium Feature
As we said at the beginning of the post, you can create charms and run them with Alexa. This is only available in the premium version of Yeti. Click here to read more about the premium version of Yeti
Discovering your devices with Yeti
First, we need to discover all our devices with Yeti.
To do this, follow the discovery process you’ll find the first time you open the app. If you find any problem or issue during the discovery process, please report this in the form we’ve sent asking for feedback.
Once Yeti has discover your devices, you will be redirected to the home
That is the main dashboard controller for your home. Try to tap in the devices and also hold press to go to advanced device configuration.
Enable Push Notifications
Push notifications are required to make Yeti work with Alexa. Otherwise, voice commands won’t be able to control our smart home devices through Yeti.
To do this:
1- Go to you profile section (Top Left corner)
2- Then select preferences
3- Enable Notifications
Creating a charm
Creating a charm is as easy as swiping right and then tap in the + button to create a new charm.
Select the devices you want to add to the charm and it will be created automatically.
To configure the behaviour of the charm, hold tap and then you’ll see all devices which are in that charm. Press a widget for two seconds to configure the device.
You can test your charm tapping on it and see if devices changes as you want!
Discovering Charms with Alexa and activating them
Once we’ve our charms created and the Yeti alexa enabled in your Echo device it’s time to make Alexa discover our charms and use them!
Say “Alexa Discover”
Alexa should answer back saying that she has found new scenes! Hurray! It’s working
Remarks: All charms are now saved under the "Scenes" section in the Alexa app. Also remember that every time you create a charm you need to re-discover so Alexa can see the charms
Now, try to say “Alexa turn on Party”
Pay attention that you must say “Turn on” + “The name of the charm” + to activate it!
Remark: Yeti must remain in background to make our charms work. Don’t worry it won’t kill your battery
I hope you enjoy Yeti and Alexa Playing together :)
See an example of how Yeti and Alexa works. Saying "Alexa turn on the Yeti charm" Yeti will turn on LIFX, Philips Hue, Yeelight, TpLink and Wemo Lights! Different brands controlled by a single voice command
I hope you enjoy Yeti and Alexa Playing together :)
