With this Home Connect® Refrigerator skill for Amazon Alexa, you can control and monitor the most important programs and functions of your Refrigerator with your voice.
Amazon Alexa
Features
- Control the temperature of your smart Refrigerator, Freezer, or Wine Columns.
- Turn super freeze, super cooling, fresh, vacation, and eco modes on or off.
- Get notified when your water filter needs to be replaced and you want to reorder it with smart reorders via the Alexa app.
Further tips:
- To add your smart Refrigerator to a routine, just add an action and then select your appliance under "Smart Home". Here, you can choose what you want your Refrigerator to do.
- If you have any issues with the skill, please try re-enabling it.
- To use this skill, you need to link your Home Connect® account to Alexa. You can register an account in the Home Connect® app. Please also make sure that you pair your smart Refrigerator with the Home Connect® app.
- Please make sure the super freeze and super cooling modes are turned off when you enable the skill and discover your device.
Smart Reorders
Smart reorders is supported by appliances equipped with the UltraClarityPro® filters. Activate Amazon Alexa Smart Reorder to automatically order water filter on select Refrigeration models.*
*Applies to Models:
T36FT820NS, T36FT810NS, T36IT100NP, T36BT110NS, T36BT120NS, T36IB100SP, T36BB110SS, T36BB120SS, T42IT100NP, T42BT110NS, T42BT120NS, T48IT100NP, T48BT110NS, T48BT120NS
How to Name Your Refrigerator
- To rename your Refrigerator, you'll need to use your Refrigerator's name together with “my Refrigerator.” For example, if your Refrigerator is named “Oliver” in the Home Connect® app, you should say “Alexa, tell my Refrigerator Oliver to start.” For shorter Smart Home commands, you can just use your Refrigerator’s name without saying “my Refrigerator.”
- If Alexa can't understand your Refrigerator names, try renaming your main Refrigerator to “Refrigerator,” and your others with numbers. For example, name your Refrigerator “Refrigerator,” and Refrigerator Number Two” in the Home Connect® app.
Get Started with Alexa
- Make sure remote start is activated on your Refrigerator to use this skill.
- To get started be sure to enable Alexa skills. You can enable Alexa skills directly in the Home Connect® app here.
- If you have any issues with the skill, try re-enabling it on the Alexa app.
- In order to use a skill, you need to link your Home Connect® account to Alexa. You can register an account in the Home Connect® app. Please also make sure that you pair your Refrigerator with the Home Connect® app.
Create Routines with Amazon Alexa
Alexa routines allow you to automate multiple tasks using a single trigger. You can create a list of actions that will happen after one of these triggers: voice, schedule, device, location, and alarm. For the oven, you can include one of these actions in a routine:
- Adjust the temperature on your Refrigerator to prepare for guests by adding it to a party routine
- Add your Refrigerator appliance to your Sabbath routine to make sure all devices are in Sabbath mode
- Let Alexa put your Refrigerator in vacation mode when you head out by adding it to your vacation routine
Selection of Supported Commands
- “Alexa, set my Refrigerator to 38 degrees”
- “Alexa, set my Freezer to 2 degrees”
- “Alexa, turn on Super Freeze on my Freezer”
- “Alexa, turn on Super Cooling on my Refrigerator”
- “Alexa, turn on (Vacation, Eco, Fresh, Sabbath) Mode on my Refrigerator.”
What can I do if Alexa doesn’t understand what I’m saying?
Communication with Alexa is based on a couple of basic rules. When you launch a skill, for instance, phrases such as "my Home Connect oven" can lead to errors. It is therefore better to play it safe by selecting a direct command (e.g. "Alexa, start Home Connect oven").
Sometimes you may use words or phrases that are not yet saved in the system. Simply rephrase your request and try again. However, in the background, we are continually updating and improving the system with each new version.
Can I say “oven" or “dishwasher” instead of “Home Connect oven” or “Home Connect Dishwasher”?
If you want to give a voice command to your washer, you can say, for instance, "Alexa, ask My Dishwasher for status." Your Amazon Echo needs the word "Alexa" to wake up, while in this case "My Dishwasher" is the keyword for addressing your Thermador dishwasher with Home Connect.
Accordingly, you can use voice commands for “My Coffee Machine”, "My Oven", “My Dishwasher” and “My Hood”. One possible voice command is for example: "Alexa, tell My Coffee Machine to prepare a large extra strong Cappuccino and start now."
