smarterlooki.blogg.se

Upon a successful start, you’ll see the notification in the upper part of the screen.4.5) Go Truly Old School An Introduction to the Amazon Smart Plug.

To start it, just tap on the “play” icon on the right side of your routine.

In the “Routines” menu, you should be looking at your freshly created sunset routine.

Tap the “back” icon in the upper left corner to return to the “Routines” menu.

A “Routine created successfully” notification will appear in the upper part of the screen.

If you’re satisfied with everything so far, tap on “Save” in the upper right corner.

The right order in this case would be 1) turn the lights on, 2) wait two and a half hours, and 3) turn the lights off. You can do that by simply dragging them up or down – simply tap and hold the “twin bars” icon to the right of each action to drag up or down.

Keep in mind that these actions are performed from top to bottom, so you’ll have to rearrange them if they’re not in the proper order.

This will get you back to the New Routine screen, where you’ll see all the actions added so far.

Toggle the power switch to “Off” and tap on “Next” in the upper right corner.

This will take you back to the “New Routine” screen.

Now, choose the time lapsed before you’d like the lights to go off and tap on “Next” in the upper right corner.

From the “New Routine” menu, tap on the “plus” sign next to the “Add action” option.

This option allows you to set a delay before the next action takes place. You can do that by using the option “Wait”.

To have the lights automatically turned off, you’ll need to set a trigger for that action. But, you certainly wouldn’t want the lights turned on indefinitely, right? To prevent that, don’t tap on “Save” just yet but rather proceed to the next section. If you tap on the “Save” button in the upper right corner, you’ll have this routine set up to turn the lights on. You will be back to the “New Routine” menu, where you can see all the settings you’ve added to this routine.Tap on “Next” in the upper right corner of the screen.Toggle the selector to “On”, which means turning the lights on at sunset.In the next menu, you will see all the groups you have created, among which is the group “Porch”.

Now you can tap on the “Control group” option. For this example, let’s suppose you have a couple of Smart Plugs arranged into a group called “Porch” for convenient control at the same time. Depending on the arrangement of your lights, you can either choose to control them as a single device, a group, or a scene.You should be in the “New Routine” menu, where you’d tap on “Add action” and select “Smart Home” from the menu.Once you’ve selected the desired options, tap on “Next” in the upper right corner.Here you can also select the days of the week for running this routine. In the Sunset menu, using the “Time Offset” slider, you can choose how many minutes before or after sunset you’d like your new routine to start.Tap on the “plus” icon next to “When this happens”.Tap on the “plus” icon in the upper right corner to create a new routine.Open the Alexa app and tap on the Menu button (three horizontal lines).With your lights connected to their respective Smart Plugs, it’s time to create a routine for turning them on.