Overview

Setting up the URL Routine Trigger skill is fairly easy:

• First you log in to our website, where you will be able to configure your triggers.
• In your Alexa smartphone app, you activate the URL Routine Trigger skill.

Step-by-step guide

Please follow this step by step guide to use this skill:

1. Go to www.virtualsmarthome.xyz/url_routine_trigger and log in using your Amazon account.
2. Define one or more triggers on the website. You only have to provide a name for your trigger. When the trigger is created, you will immediately be provided a URL that you can use for activating the trigger.
3. Install the URL Routine Trigger skill and log in with your Amazon account. When Alexa starts discovering new devices, the triggers you previously defined will be found. These triggers will show up as doorbells.
4. Now, you can use these doorbells as triggers for your Alexa routines.
5. When you open the URL for a trigger, the trigger is actived and your Alexa routine will be executed.

Why are we using Amazon accounts?

If you are using an Alexa device, you have to set it up with an Amazon account. So every Alexa user has an Amazon account.

We wanted to make it as easy as possible for our users and not require an additional user account and a new password. Therefore, we make it possible that you can use your existing Amazon account with our Alexa skills.