Overview

Once you logged in to www.virtualsmarthome.xyz/virtual_routine_trigger and activated the Virtual Routine Trigger Alexa skill, you are ready to create the first Virtual Routine Triggers.

Step-by-step guide

Please follow this single step to create your Virtual Routine Triggers:

1. You provide a name for your trigger. This name will be used for the smart home device that will be added to your Alexa account. The type of the device will be a doorbell.
2. Next, you provide the URL for a resource on a web that you want to utilise as trigger. You can define if this URL will be loaded through HTTP GET or POST requests. If you do not know the difference, simply use HTTP GET.
3. The URL you provide will be loaded regularly in the background. You can define if the content loaded will be treated as text (case-sensitive or not) or as number (decimal or not). Finally, you define how the content loaded will be compared to a value you provide. E.g., you can define that the content loaded is treated as text and should contain the word "rain" or that the content loaded is treated as number and should be greater than 1.

Every time the condition you define is met, the trigger will be activated. This means that the doorbell in your Alexa will be pressed. If the condition is not met, nothing will happen in your Alexa.