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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Sure. There's several hundred extra steps I can use (up to and including having the outdoor temperature sent my smart watch every 10 seconds), but knowing the outdoor temperature is not really the point of the exercise. Getting her to tell it to me whenever I ask a very simple question is. 
I can make Alexa initiate just about any automated task I want, but I can't make her report (vocally) on the status of this device (and she KNOWS the status of this device). It's maddening. The words "temperature" or "humidty" or "dew point" all seem to trigger the same generic weather report that doesn't use my sensors. Sensors that are all configured and viewable in the alexa app. |
That does suck.
When I said work around, I meant a work around that gets Alexa to announce the temperature. I would hope that since there are voice commands, there may also be a skill, and you could use the skill in a routine. Or have Alexa trigger an IFTTT applet that gets the temperature and then notifies Alexa with the temperature. I'm no expert on routines or IFTTT, so I may be completely off base.
As an aside, I was able to work around two recent problems (after trying Amazon tech support) ...
I have a harmony hub, and it stopped recognizing Alexa verbal commands. Harmony does have a skill, so I was able to use routines to recognize verbal commands.
I have a button that when pushed, sends a notification message to my phone. It was working fine, but recently stopped playing the notification sound and not flashing. Using IFTTT, I was able to get notifications on my phone (through the IFTTT app).
Good luck.