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An interface without properties says beside its name what Alexa has to know of it; the library left both out. With a board and Alexa on 2026-09-28 the discovery of a doorbell was accepted (202), the endpoint was not listed, and its DoorbellPress was answered with 500 INTERNAL_SERVICE_EXCEPTION. DoorbellEventSource now always carries "proactivelyReported": true. SceneController carries "supportsDeactivation", false until the sketch calls setSupportsDeactivation(true); on another interface the call is refused and logged. The Scene example says that it can be undone. 148 host tests. Light: static RAM 30,616 B, flash 332,705 B (+140 B). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Examples
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One folder per kind of device. Every sketch is complete: Wi-Fi, the MQTT session, one device (MultiDevice: two) with
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its own endpoint id and name, and one handler for its directives.
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| Sketch | Device | Interfaces | Endpoint id |
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| [Light](Light/Light.ino) | a lamp, on and off | PowerController | `esp-light` |
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| [DimmableLight](DimmableLight/DimmableLight.ino) | a lamp with PWM brightness | PowerController, BrightnessController | `esp-dimmable-light` |
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| [ColorTemperatureLight](ColorTemperatureLight/ColorTemperatureLight.ino) | a lamp with a warm and a cold channel, 2200 K to 7000 K | PowerController, BrightnessController, ColorTemperatureController | `esp-white-light` |
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| [ColorLight](ColorLight/ColorLight.ino) | an RGB lamp | PowerController, BrightnessController, ColorController | `esp-color-light` |
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| [TemperatureSensor](TemperatureSensor/TemperatureSensor.ino) | a thermometer; a ChangeReport after a change of more than 0.5 degrees, at most one a minute | TemperatureSensor | `esp-temperature` |
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| [ContactSensor](ContactSensor/ContactSensor.ino) | a door contact on a GPIO; a ChangeReport on every change | ContactSensor | `esp-contact` |
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| [Blind](Blind/Blind.ino) | a blind with a position of 0 to 100 and the words open, close, raise, lower | RangeController `Blind.Lift` with semantics | `esp-blind` |
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| [Thermostat](Thermostat/Thermostat.ino) | HEAT, COOL, AUTO and OFF, one setpoint or two, the errors of the thermostat | ThermostatController, TemperatureSensor | `esp-thermostat` |
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| [Lock](Lock/Lock.ino) | a bolt that takes 3 s: DeferredResponse, then the answer from `loop()` | LockController | `esp-lock` |
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| [Scene](Scene/Scene.ino) | a scene that switches two outputs | SceneController | `esp-scene` |
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| [Doorbell](Doorbell/Doorbell.ino) | a button on a GPIO; DoorbellPress on every press | DoorbellEventSource | `esp-doorbell` |
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| [MultiDevice](MultiDevice/MultiDevice.ino) | two lamps, two endpoints, one handler | PowerController | `esp-multi-left`, `esp-multi-right` |
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Every device announces EndpointHealth as well and reports `connectivity` with its state.
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The sketches in [`legacy/`](legacy/) are the examples of 1.x, unchanged. They use `registerEvent()` and the
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`Add...Prop()` names and are kept to show that a 1.x sketch compiles against 2.0. New sketches start from the ones
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above.
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## Before flashing
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Fill in the five constants at the top of the sketch: the Wi-Fi network and the MQTT user name, password and root
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topic of your Alex2MQTT account.
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```cpp
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const char *WIFI_SSID = "";
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const char *WIFI_PASSWORD = "";
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const char *ALEXA_USERNAME = "";
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const char *ALEXA_PASSWORD = "";
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const char *ALEXA_ROOT_TOPIC = "";
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```
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Two boards with the same endpoint id on one account are one device to Alexa. Change the id and the name in
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`getDevice()` when you flash a sketch a second time.
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Each sketch names the pins it uses by GPIO number, with the label of the Wemos D1 mini in a comment. The serial
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output is at 74880 baud.
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## Wi-Fi
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`connectWiFi()` waits for the network for 30 s at the most. Without a connection it prints the status and the two
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constants to check, and the sketch carries on: the ESP8266 keeps trying to join, and `alexa.loop()` opens the MQTT
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session once Wi-Fi is up.
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## Building
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Arduino IDE: a sketch is a folder with an `.ino` of the same name, which is how the IDE opens it.
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PlatformIO: copy the `.ino` into `src/` of a project that has the library in `lib_deps`, or make the folder of the
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sketch the source directory of the project (`src_dir`, or the environment variable of the same meaning). In a
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project with a `d1_mini` environment and the library:
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```
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PLATFORMIO_SRC_DIR=/path/to/Alex2ESP/examples/Light pio run -e d1_mini
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```
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This is how the sizes below were built. The sketches define every function before it is used and include `Arduino.h`, so they are also valid as a `.cpp`
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file.
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## Size
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Static RAM and flash as PlatformIO reports them for `d1_mini` (espressif8266 4.2.1, Arduino core 3.1.2,
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AsyncMqttClient 0.9.0, ArduinoJson 7.4.3), built from this folder as committed, with empty credentials and the default
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log level. A D1 mini has 81,920 bytes of RAM; what is not static is the heap.
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| Sketch | Static RAM (bytes) | Flash (bytes) |
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| Light | 30,616 | 332,565 |
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| DimmableLight | 30,692 | 336,765 |
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| ColorTemperatureLight | 30,808 | 337,489 |
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| ColorLight | 30,748 | 338,657 |
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| TemperatureSensor | 30,572 | 333,213 |
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| ContactSensor | 30,584 | 332,861 |
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| Blind | 30,860 | 336,525 |
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| Thermostat | 31,044 | 337,517 |
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| Lock | 30,648 | 333,441 |
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| Scene | 30,640 | 333,277 |
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| Doorbell | 30,584 | 333,013 |
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| MultiDevice | 30,672 | 332,725 |
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| legacy/basicLight | 30,520 | 333,989 |
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| legacy/lightWithBrightness | 30,648 | 337,929 |
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| legacy/lightWithColorTemp | 30,828 | 338,653 |
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| legacy/tempSensor | 30,412 | 332,781 |
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| legacy/blindControl | 30,568 | 335,261 |
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## What has been tried
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The sketches of this folder were compiled with PlatformIO, with 0 warnings. They have not been built with the
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Arduino IDE and have not run on a board yet. What each announces
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in discovery is checked by the host tests in `test/test_examples`.
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With this library on a Wemos D1 mini, a real Alexa account and other sketches (2026-09-28), Alexa discovered and
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drove PowerController, BrightnessController, ColorTemperatureController and one instance each of ToggleController,
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RangeController and ModeController. Not tried with Alexa from this library: ColorController, ThermostatController,
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LockController and the deferred answer, SceneController, the ChangeReports and DoorbellPress. Voice commands have
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not been tried.
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## Limits
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- Doorbell, ContactSensor: an event or a change while there is no session with the broker is not sent later.
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- Lock: the answer after the DeferredResponse is sent once. If the session is lost while the bolt moves, Alexa gets
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the state with its next ReportState.
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- Blind, Scene, Thermostat, the lamps: the state is kept in RAM and starts from the values in the sketch after a
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reset.
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