Amazon Alexa

Amazon Alexa^® (Alexa) is an intelligent personal assistant developed by Amazon^®, and is capable of voice interaction.

Wiser works with Alexa to allow you to regulate the temperature of each room in your system by using a wake-word and an instruction.

The wake-work is “Alexa” followed by an instruction such as “Increase temperature.”

Currently, Amazon has made interaction and communication with Alexa only available in English and German.

Configuring Wiser Home with Alexa

On the Home page of Wiser Home app, tap .
Tap Account > App and Connections to find different cloud services.
Tap on Alexa option. This will redirect you to the Amazon website to link to Wiser system.
Click on Enable to link Alexa with your Wiser System.
Enter the user name and password you have setup for your Wiser system and tap Done.
Grant the required permissions. You will receive a confirmation that your account is now linked.

Alexa will now discover all the Wiser Home devices you have setup, allowing you to control your Wiser system using Alexa app and by using voice command.

Changes made with Alexa

If Alexa is asked to increase the temperature by 2°C, then Alexa will add 2°C to your setpoint. If the ambient temperature is already >2°C above the current setpoint then the actual temperature will not change and Wiser will not turn the heating ON.

Example: If the current setpoint is 16°C, the current room temperature is 19°C and you ask Alexa to increase the temperature by 2°C - the current setpoint will change to 18°C but the heating will not start because the room temperature is already higher than 18°C.

Everything you tell Alexa to do related to Wiser Room Thermostats and Radiator Thermostats will last only for one hour, or until the next scheduled setpoint change if that change is to occur in under an hour. After that it goes back to its original setting, and you must tell Alexa to do it again.

If a Device is following a Schedule, any setting changed by Alexa will last until the next event in the Schedule. If the Device is running in manual mode, any command to Alexa will remain in place until the next command or manual setting.

Common Wiser Commands for Alexa

Alexa requires explicit instructions. You must inform Alexa of the room to which you wish to address followed by an instruction, such as “increase temperature.” If no specific room is mentioned, Alexa will ask you which room you want to address, and then will increase the setpoint temperature by 1°C only based on the room reply from you.

If you want the setpoint temperature to increase by 4°C in the living room, you must explicitly state to Alexa to “Increase the temperature in the living room by 4°C.”

Listed below are common Wiser commands used with Alexa:

Discover Devices: “Alexa, discover devices”
Reduce Temperature: “Alexa, decrease the upstairs by 4 degrees”
Increase Temperature: “Alexa, increase the upstairs by 3 degrees”
Set Temperature: “Alexa, set the upstairs to 20 degrees”
Get Temperature: “Alexa, what is the upstairs temperature?”
Get Set Point: “Alexa, what is the upstairs set to?”

NOTE: Alexa considers the Room names and lights as the Devices.

Listed below are common Wiser Smart Plugs commands used with Alexa:

Turn Off the Lights in the plug named bedside lamps: “Alexa, turn OFF the bedside lamps.”
Turn ON the Lights in the plug named bedside lamps: “Alexa, turn ON the bedside lamps.”

Suggestions when using Alexa:

Simple room names are recommended, such as “living room.”
You cannot turn Heating ON or Off using Alexa.
You cannot increase/decrease the temperature from Off. When a room is set to Off, you can adjust the room to a specific temperature.