GetTargetTemperatureRequest equivalent in V3?

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Radu Pascal asked · Oct 02, 2017 at 04:59 AM

GetTargetTemperatureRequest equivalent in V3?

I can't figure out how to support querying for targetSetpoint in V3. In V2 there was the GetTargetTemperatureRequest, but what is the equivalent in V3? Any pointers?

Thanks.

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Answer 1 · 2017-10-03T14:07:53Z

Pooja P. answered · Oct 03, 2017 at 02:07 PM · ACCEPTED ANSWER

A ‘ReportState’ Directive will be sent whenever user queries any of the temperatures : targetTemp or current temp reading.

In the ‘StateReport’ response, you should include all your 'retrievable' properties for:

Alexa.TemperatureSensor / temperature

Alexa.ThermostatController / lowerSetpoint + /upperSetpoint + /thermostatMode

(or whatever setpoints apply to your device)

I think then Alexa voice service will take care of responding back with just the Target Temperature if the user asked for that.

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Radu Pascal · Oct 03, 2017 at 06:32 PM

ok, I looked into V2 and realised the correct form to ask should be "Alexa, what is the device name set to?". Unfortunately I am having trouble with V3 finding the utterance examples. V2 was much clearer in that respect..

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Pooja P. Radu Pascal · Oct 03, 2017 at 09:16 PM

Yes, they definitely need to provide more example utterances and maybe a clearer flow of directives and responses. It takes some time to go through the big overhaul for V3.

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Answer 2 · 2018-05-15T12:37:44Z

Christian answered · May 15, 2018 at 12:37 PM

Also not getting back the set target temperature of my thermostat.

This is the response data for an Alexa Interface / ReportState request:

{
  "event": {
    "header": {
      "messageId": "6163d6b7-6547-4bf7-8512-e783056866a0",
      "correlationToken": "xyz",
      "namespace": "Alexa",
      "name": "StateReport",
      "payloadVersion": "3"
    },
    "payload": {},
    "endpoint": {
      "scope": {
        "type": "BearerToken",
        "token": "xyz"
      },
      "endpointId": "7"
    }
  },
  "context": {
    "properties": [
      {
        "namespace": "Alexa.ThermostatController",
        "name": "targetSetpoint",
        "timeOfSample": "2018-05-15T12:31:16Z",
        "uncertaintyInMilliseconds": 500,
        "value": {
          "value": 8,
          "scale": "CELSIUS"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Looks valid to me, but Alexa states that my device does not support this.

Any ideas?

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Roy@amazon ♦ · Sep 12, 2018 at 09:32 PM

Hi Christian,

Are you still having this issue? Do you have a Temperature Sensor capability on this device?

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Answer 3 · 2017-11-04T20:20:39Z

nick.madge answered · Nov 04, 2017 at 08:20 PM

Anyone from Amazon help out here? I can't get ReportState working for thermostats - Interestingly, when I try opening the thermostat in the latest v of the Android app, it hangs that device and can't be re-queried

Properties:

{
    "properties": [
        {
            "namespace": "Alexa.TemperatureSensor",
            "name": "temperature",
            "value": {
                "value": 20,
                "scale": "CELSIUS"
            },
            "timeOfSample": "2017-11-04T20:16:52.767Z",
            "uncertaintyInMilliseconds": 1000
        }
    ]
}

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nick.madge · Nov 07, 2017 at 11:43 AM

Has anyone got querying thermostats to work in V3?

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Answer 4 · 2017-10-06T15:57:04Z

HCA Dev Team answered · Oct 06, 2017 at 03:57 PM

I'm also having issues with providing the capabilities to show that a devices state can be retrieved...

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nick.madge · Oct 07, 2017 at 04:43 PM

likewise - pretty happy that the response is correct. I must be missing something?

{
  "context": {
    "properties": [
      {
        "namespace": "Alexa.TemperatureSensor",
        "name": "temperature",
        "value": {
          "value": 22,
          "scale": "CELSIUS"
        },
        "timeOfSample": "2017-10-07T16:39:44.108Z",
        "uncertaintyInMilliseconds": 1000
      }
    ]
  },
  "event": {
    "header": {
      "namespace": "Alexa",
      "name": "StateReport",
      "payloadVersion": "3",
      "correlationToken": "dFMb0z+PgpgdDmluhJ1LddFvSqZ/jCc8ptlAKulUj90jSqg==",
      "messageId": "1bd5d003-31b9-476f-ad03-71d471922820"
    },
    "endpoint": {
      "scope": {
        "type": "BearerToken",
        "token": "OAUTH-TOKEN-WAS-HERE"
      },
      "endpointId": "184"
    }
  },
  "payload": {}
}

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Answer 5 · 2017-10-02T22:56:56Z

nick.madge answered · Oct 02, 2017 at 10:56 PM

think it's here:

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/alexa-temperaturesensor

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Radu Pascal · Oct 03, 2017 at 04:48 AM

To my understanding, that's the equivalent of GetTemperatureReadingRequest. GetTargetTemperatureRequest should provide the temperature to which the Thermostat has been set, and that's the function I can't find in the new V3 API: how to query for the temperature to which the thermostat is currently set.

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