Can Alexa Announce When a Door Opens on the Gen 2 Alarm System?

Alexa cannot announce door openings directly from RF sensors connected to your alarm panel via the Smart Life app because the app treats the alarm panel as a single integrated device, not as a collection of individual sensors. Alexa can’t “see” those individual door sensors, so it doesn’t know when a specific one opens or closes.

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Why This Happens

• RF sensors (door/window, motion, etc.) communicate only with the alarm panel, not with the Smart Life app or Alexa directly.

• The Smart Life → Alexa integration passes only panel-level states (e.g., “armed” or “disarmed”) — not sensor states.

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Workarounds however it will not be integrate with the Gen 2 unless a 'Scene' is created (Possible Options)

1. Use Smart Life compatible Wi-Fi door sensors

If you would like Alexa to make announcements like “Front door opened”, they need:

• Individual Wi-Fi door sensors that are added directly to the Smart Life app (not through the alarm panel).

• These sensors will appear as separate devices in Smart Life → Alexa.

• Then, in the Alexa app, create a routine:

  • When: Door sensor is “opened”

  • Alexa says: “Front door is open”

Works well — but requires separate sensors.

We will be testing this function in the beggining of November

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Summary

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