Alexa Routines

@jswaney, if you have SS3, Amazon Echo integration was done much earlier this year. As far as a door lock, SS said they will be coming out with one.

Yep, I do have SS3 and the Alexa skill. Doesn't allow you to include SimpliSafe as a part of a routine though. If you go to Routines within Alexa, you'll see home security is one of the categories. But SimpliSafe isn't an option to include as a part of a routine.

@ jswaney , sorry, couldn't tell from your post the system you had. Yes, agree completely, "integration" is very light and have posted, sent emails to SS etc that Routines be added.  Have six and growing number of lights, inside and out, that I have Echo scenes for and would love to connect to Simplisafe for alarm conditions.  And more.

Glad I'm not the only one! Have you gotten any positive feedback in your interactions with SS customer support?

Needs to be able to be used in Alexa routines.  Works fine with Google Home routines.

Needs to be able to be used in Alexa routines.  Works fine with Google Home routines.

Just upgraded my previous SS model to the newest to integrate with Alexa Echo and surprised to see it could not be added to a routine.  Development Team needs to work on this function.

SimpliSafe needs to be an Alexa recognized device and support Alexa Routines.  I just upgraded 39 sensors to SS3 and the best I can do with Alexa is less than my key fob in my pocket. Absolutely ridiculous that SimpliSafe is still doing just the bare minimum to get by with. I asked for IFTTT integration in June 2014, almost 5 years ago and still nothing. SimpliSafe supporting Alexa Routines could change Hue Light Colors with an alarm negating the need for IFTTT.

I will not upgrade or expand this system every again if SimpliSafe doesn't start leading in this field. We're literally waiting to follow (think about that, waiting to follow) the Home Security industry. Sad, zero innovation since their introduction.

Ack0605

We also have been watching and waiting and have since installed 146 other customers with other companies systems because Simplisafe lacks Routines support.

STILL WAITING for this, 2FA, and multiple user accounts.

@MotorSTLN, correct me if I am wrong, but I believe you are saying you are a security system dealer? If so hardly a non biased source.

@MotorSTLN, what systems is/are "better" than SS, despite it lacking these minor functions?  Note that "better" for a SECURITY system means more secure and/or more reliable, or equally secure and reliable at a lower cost.  

Whether or not a SECURITY system has "routines support" has no bearing on "better".  2FA might have a bearing on "better", since that actually has something to do with security.

I tell Alexa "good night" and it turns off my TV cubes and all the lights in my home. It's a routine.    I would like it so that I can add simplisafe to the routine and it arms into home mode when I say "Good night".    I would also like simplisafe to have the ability to arm automatically as previously asked for by others.  Would be nice to just set a routine to arm into home mode at 11 PM every night.  

As of now, I have to tell Alexa to tell simplisafe to go into away mode and then I get asked if that's what I want.  Too many steps.

Can you have routines with Alexa with SimpliSafe

@Simplisafe: I thought I would try a simpler approach (pun not intended).

Current status:

SS3 enters alarm condition from home mode.  I wake up and say "Alexa, turn on the house lights!".  Nine IoT lights inside and outside of my home go on.

SS3 enters alarm condition from Away Mode. Push notification from app. I open my Echo app and say "Alexa, turn on house lights!".

Pretty simple, but yet manual. 

In the near future:

Develop and sell a Gucci, deluxe encrypted SS hub with a large, healthy profit margin to connect to my IoT devices (one way by the way), you make your investors happy and customers happy. Win/win.