IoT adapter – connect ioBroker to cloud service

If we want to use one of the Amazon Alexa or Google Home language assistants with ioBroker, we need an ioBroker cloud service account.

IoT adapter installation

Go to the “Adapters” tab, find the IoT adapter and add an instance.

Enter your ioBroker Pro access data, select which assistants you want to use in ioBroker. If you don’t have an account in the ioBroker cloud yet, register on the ioBroker Pro  page.

To use the Amazon Alexa service, go to the “ALEXA DEVICES” tab and add the devices you want to control with Alexa. Click on the add button.

Select the device in the pop-up window. Add all the tools and save the sheet.

We add the ioBroker.iot skill in the Alexa app. If the system asks, enter your ioBroker.pro login data. This is how we connected Alexa to the ioBroker cloud service.

Now we can tell Alexa to discover devices, or alternatively we can do the search in the Amazon Alexa app.

If you check the Google Home check box (1.) on the “Options” tab of the IoT adapter settings panel, the “GOOGLE DEVICES” menu item (2.) will appear in the vertical menu. Here we add the devices we want to control in the same way as we did with Alexa.

In order to control ioBroker objects in Google Home, they must be connected. In the Google Home application, on the Tools tab, click the “+Add” button, then select the “Compatible with Google” option on the page that opens.

Enter the search term ioBroker in the search engine. then click on it. Log in here, as with Alexa, with your ioBroker.pro ID. The devices enabled in the ioBroker IoT adapter will then appear in our Google Home application.