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Originally Posted by Barnes
All pretty cool stuff. It's amazing how far this stuff has come in a few years. About 4 years ago I had implemented a cheap RF controlled LED lightstrip as a TV backlight and used a Broadlink RM Pro to control it through Alexa. The integration was such that the Alexa skill on allowed for TV device types so I had to create a bunch of fake TV's, program button sequences into my fake TV remotes and I had to make one for each colour and lightstrip mode to turn them on and off, change colour as well as integrate them into routines and scenes.
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Agreed! Now a 13 dollar part from china can control it with no problems. Pretty crazy. Unfortunately all my fancy controls don't have Alexa integration it seems like it is quite the coding project to make it happen.