How to Connect Smart Life App with Voice Assistants and IFTTT
Connecting Smart Life with Amazon Alexa
This section describes how to bind smart speakers with the Smart Life app.
Set your Echo speaker by Alexa APP
- 1. If you have finished installing "Smart Life", then open the Amazon Alexa App. Sign in to your Alexa account and enter your password.
- 2. Click the menu on the left corner, then click "Settings". Choose "Set up a new device" (select a device, like Echo).
Note: When the setup page appears, long press the small dot on your Echo device until the light turns yellow. Then click "Continue" on the App.
Note: At this moment, the mobile phone cannot open a variety of VPN software.
Choose your own WiFi and wait for a few minutes. After an introduction video, click "next step". The app will enter the Home page automatically. Now the Echo should be connected to Wi-Fi successfully.
Enable Smart Life Skill in Alexa
- Step 1: Choose "Skill" in the option bar, and then search "SMART Life" in the input box.
- Step 2: Select Smart Life in the search results, and then click "Enable Skill".
- Step 3: Then input the username and password of the Smart Life APP that you had previously registered.
Control the device by voice
After the above operation is successful, you can control the device via Echo.
1: Discover Device
Firstly, you need to say to the Echo:
"Echo (or Alexa), discover my devices."
Echo will start to find the device which is added in the Smart Life APP. It will take about 20 seconds, then Echo will tell you the result. You can also click "Discover devices" in the Alexa APP, then it will show the devices that have been found successfully.
2: Control Device by Voice
Note: The name of the device must be consistent with the name used when adding it in the Smart Life APP.
You can also group the device and give instructions to control them together.
Image Description: The left image shows a "Smart Home" screen with options to create groups for controlling multiple devices. It indicates "You don't have any groups yet" with a "Create group" button. Below this, it mentions "Your Smart Home Skills" for controlling cloud-connected devices. The right image shows a "Smart Home" screen with a group named "my smart lights" listing devices: "kitchen light", "living room light", and "bedroom light", each with a checkbox. A note explains that Alexa works best with understandable group names and names with numbers can be hard for Alexa to understand.
Note: Echo is one of the wake-up names, which can be any of the three names: Alexa, Echo, or Amazon.
3: Support Skill List
You can control the devices by instructions like these:
- Alexa (or Echo), turn on the Devices
- Alexa (or Echo), turn off the Devices.
Connecting Smart Life with Google Assistant
Activate Smart Life in Google
Preparation
- Have downloaded the Google Home App (compatible with Android 4.2 or higher or iOS 8.0 or higher smartphones or tablets).
- Have registered your Google Account.
- Have paired Device with Smart Life App and named it with a recognizable name.
- Have finished setting up Google Home.
- Step 1: Open Google Home App; tap the icon on the upper left corner; select "More Settings" to enter the next interface.
- Step 2: Choose "Services" in the options bar and select "Smart Life" to enter the next interface.
- Step 3: Tap "Link Account", then sign in your Smart Life Account.
- Step 4: Tap "Link Now", after your Smart Life account has been linked to Google Assistant, the smart devices will automatically appear.
Command the Device through Your Assistant
Firstly, you need to say "OK Google, talk to Smart Life" to wake up the Smart Life. Then you can control the device by instructions like these:
- Turn on the/Turn off the
Note: After Smart Life has been wakened up, you may say "Cancel" or "Stop" to exit Smart Life. Or say "Nothing" when you hear "what can I do for you". Then you can say "OK Google, talk to Smart Life" to start voice control.
IFTTT - Setup and Usage
Get Started: How to connect the product to IFTTT?
- Step 1: Visit the IFTTT official website on your PC and sign in with your IFTTT account.
Note: You can also use the IFTTT app and follow similar steps to connect your device to IFTTT.
In the FAQ, we take the website setting method as an example.
- Step 2: Search for "Smart Life", and then click "Smart Life" service.
- Step 1: Click "Connect", then log in your Smart Life ID and tap "Link Now". (The Smart Life ID is the same as that of the Smart Life APP).
- Step 4: After successfully connecting your IFTTT account to your Smart Life ID.