How can I use Alexa to control the temperature in rooms where I have installed radiator thermostat valves?

For a heating system, Alexa will recognize many of the standard skills, such as those mentioned below. Please, keep in mind that in the place of circuit name you should use the actual name that has been assigned to the given Heating Circuit in your installation. If you are using the ViCare Smart Climate functionality for individual room control, then use the room name instead of circuit name.

• Alexa, set circuit name temperature to x degree
• Alexa, set room name temperature to x degree
• Alexa, increase/decrease circuit name temperature by x degree
• Alexa, increase/decrease room name temperature by x degree
• Alexa, make it warmer in circuit name
• Alexa, make it warmer in room name
• Alexa, make it cooler in circuit name
• Alexa, make it cooler in room name

An example of this action could be: 

• “Alexa, what is the current temperature in my living room?”
• “Alexa, set the temperature in the bedroom to 22 degrees.”
• “Alexa, boost the hot water for one hour.”

The queries and commands regarding temperature reading are available only if  the sensor is connected and it has no errors. Command parameter values are using stepping of 0.5 to control the thermostat. If you decide to switch scale to use Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, temperature is being converted to Celsius and saved using rounding and then returned in request's scale, so in this case Fahrenheit.

Below you can find the examples of commands and queries recognizable by Alexa as standard skills. Just remember to name each of your rooms differently so that Alexa can recognize where the change should happen.

Please, remember also that you can use those skills only if your heating device supports given features. Some of them are available only with ViCare Smart Climate functionality turned on in your ViCare app.

Available queries

• Alexa, what is room name temperature
• Alexa, what is room name target temperature
• Alexa, what is the room name set to?

Available commands

• Alexa, set room name temperature to x degree
• Alexa, set room name temperature to x degree [for n hours/minutes]*
• Alexa, set room name temperature to x degree [until end date am/pm]*
• Alexa, increase/decrease room name temperature by x degree
• Alexa, resume room name schedule
• Alexa, make it warmer in room name
• Alexa, make it cooler in room name

*are optional. The time frames of this schedule depend on the specific feature and by default these values are 30, 60, 90, 120, 180, 210, 240 and 360 minutes. In case you decide to pass time which is not exact, it is being rounded to the nearest valid value. Unfortunately, we have no way to inform Alexa that the value is being rounded, so you would be notified about the original time. This is being done by Alexa itself and we have no possibility of changing this behaviour.

Examples of queries and commands with active ViCare Smart Climate devices for individual room control:

• "Alexa, what is the current temperature"
• "Alexa, what is the target temperature"
• "Alexa, what is the current temperature in my living room"
• "Alexa, what is the target temperature in the bedroom"
• "Alexa, what temperature is it in the kitchen"
• "What is the current temperature in my bedroom"
• "What is target room temperature in my bedroom"
• "Alexa, change the temperature to 25 in my living room"
• "Alexa, change the temperature to 18 degrees in bedroom"
• "Alexa, change the temperature in my living room to 25"
• "Alexa, change the temperature in my bedroom to 18 degrees"
• "Alexa, change the temperature in my bedroom to 18 degrees for 2 hours"
• "Alexa, change the temperature in my living room"
• "Alexa, deactivate manual mode in the kitchen"
• "Alexa, stop manual mode in my living room"
• "Alexa, return to heating schedule in my kitchen"
• "Alexa, return to heating schedule"
• "Alexa, stop manual mode"
• "Alexa, deactivate manual mode"

Examples of queries and commands with a heating system without ViCare Smart Climate devices

• "Alexa, what is the current temperature"
• "Alexa, what is the target temperature"
• "Alexa, what is the current temperature on heating circuit one"
• "Alexa, what is the target temperature on heating circuit one"
• "Alexa, change the temperature to 25 degrees on heating circuit two"
• "Alexa, change the temperature to 22 on heating circuit one"
• "Alexa, change the temperature on heating circuit two to 25 degrees”
• "Alexa, change the temperature on heating circuit one to 22"
• "Alexa, change the temperature on heating circuit one"

Activated Domestic Hot Water boost (if functionality is available for given heating device):

• "Alexa, start domestic hot water boost"
• "Alexa, Turn on domestic hot water boost"