Twist Volume Control not for Alexa?

THZ

Hi
I just received my Twist but got very disappointed! I ordered the Twist mainly for being able to control volume for my Alexa, which is connected to a bluetooth speaker, but exactly this is not possible, as the volume works for Sonos only? Am I right?

lance

@Emil The posts are a bit confusing. Am I to take it that you can’t program Twist to control Alexa volume at all? I can’t seem to have it respond to the twist motion. I can use the button to pause and play next track though.
Thank you.

THZ

@Emil Thank you. I already set up the other Twist to control the lights with Alexa, but cannot use it to control the volume, unfortunately.
If I would use a Sonos speaker, connected to Alexa, could I then use

the Twist Push Button to start playing something (for example TuneIn) via Alexa (what I already have now)
and
then the Twist Wheel to control the volume with the connected Sonos?

Emil

@jezgdavies We are going to increase the number of steps to 12 instead of 4 (that should hopefully be enough). The ideal would of course be if Alexa supported something like an "analog" value, but for now they only support setups of "when event X happens, trigger routine Y".

jezgdavies

@th-zuberer My twists finally arrived today and I just had the same experience of disappointment on this - I bought this expecting to be able to initiate playing music or audible on my sheds and control the volume :0(
I hadn’t seen this post but already gone through the process of creating 4 routines that set the volume to my 4 most common numbers on the relevant Alexa device. It gets the job done I guess - but it’s pretty sucky and 100% not what I expected, especially after waiting 18 months longer than originally planned…

Emil

@th-zuberer For the smoothest experience we suggest to use our LAN integrations which will deliver lowest latency such as Sonos.

You can however use Alexa as well using the Advanced Dimming or Scene Blender feature. See

. In this case, an Alexa routine will be triggered once the twist is moved to a certain position.

We are working on making the positions more dense.