Sometimes our house gets a bit warm in the middle of the night. It sucks to have to turn on the blaring iPhone screen to adjust the Nest. I thought to myself wouldn’t it be cool (pun intended?) to have Alexa take care of things for me.
I started out with the goal of having Alexa turn on our HVAC fan. Logged into the Alexa app and it does have Nest integration. Turned it on and spent the next 15 minutes in the I hate Alexa category. You can’t just turn on the fan. Alexa wants to turn on the AC. Okay so maybe not a bad thing, but even giving in, I could never get her to understand my request to make the upstairs cooler and turn on the AC.
Time for plan B. Jumped over to ifttt.com. Activated the Nest and Alexa channels. Created a trigger channel to turn on the fan. Moving back into the I love Alexa category. With the simple phrase “Alexa trigger turn on the upstairs fan" the fan will turn on!
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