How to stop a blind using the RangeController interface or another option

Question

Currently, Alexa supports voice commands for opening, closing, and stopping. However, the RangeController interface provided for blind and curtain control does not implement this functionality.

Any ideas or suggestions on how this can be implemented?

To stop a blind or curtain by Alexa

Answer 1

see here for the author's response: https://github.com/csuermann/node-red-contrib-virtual-smart-home/issues/229

my suggestion (untested) would be to add a powerController interface to the capabilities and some custom semantics so that "stop" essentially turns the blinds "off". in your receiving logic within node-red, use the power state to cut power to the relays or if you can't do that the other option is to retrieve the current location and issue a move command to that location.

you need to do these manipulations in two places:

1. the custom back-end- you will need to edit endpointTemplates.ts and then re-run serverless deploy.
2. the skill: you will need to edit device-types.js and directives.js and then stop/start node-red.