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Alarm.com Skill - Interact with garage doors through Amazon Alexa

There are three ways to interact with garage doors: by name, group, or general device type.

  • To interact by name, use the exact name of the garage door in the command.
  • To interact with a group of devices with similar names, use a common word in the garage door names. For example, if there are garage doors named Front Door and Front Garage, you could close both by saying, "Alexa, ask Alarm.com to close the front garage doors" or "Alexa, ask Alarm.com to close the garage doors in the front."
  • To interact with groups of garage doors by general device type (e.g., garage doors), speak the type of device in the command. For example: "Alexa, ask Alarm.com to close the garage doors," or "Alexa, ask Alarm.com if my garage doors are closed."

The following list of commands is a small subset of the possible things to say to control the garage doors.

Example commands

Note: The example commands are performed on a garage door with the name Front Garage Door.

To open the garage door:

Important: Opening a garage door is a secure command. For more information about secure commands and how to enable them, see Alarm.com Skill - Enable secure commands.

  • "Alexa, ask Alarm.com to open the Front Garage Door with [four-digit pin code]."
  • "Alexa, ask Alarm.com to open the garage doors with [four-digit pin code]."
  • “Alexa, ask Alarm.com to open the garage door in the front with [four-digit pin code].”
To close the garage door:
  • "Alexa, ask Alarm.com to close the garage door in the front."
  • "Alexa, ask Alarm.com to close the Front Garage Door."
  • "Alexa, ask Alarm.com to close my garage doors."
To ask a question:
  • "Alexa, ask Alarm.com to check if the garage door is closed."
  • "Alexa, ask Alarm.com if the garage door is open."
  • "Alexa, ask Alarm.com if my garage doors are closed."

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