Connecting Homey with Amazon Alexa

Controlling your smart home with a voice assistant tends to be very useful. That's why Homey features integration with Alexa, allowing you to interact with the connected devices by voice and run your favorite Flows. This article explains how to set up the integration using the Homey Skill for Alexa.

Initial setup

1. To get started, make sure your Amazon Alexa device is set up and connected to a Wi-Fi network.
2. Once your Alexa device is set up, open the Alexa app on your smartphone.
3. Go to Smart Home in the menu.
4. Scroll down and select Your smart home skills→ Enable smart home skills → search forHomey → Enable skill.
5. Log in with your Athom Account to give Alexa access to Homey.
6. Alexa will ask if you want to discover your existing devices. Press Discover devices to continue.

From now on, you can invoke basic commands such as "Alexa, turn everything off" or "Alexa, dim the Kitchen Light to 50%".