IKEA scenes with voice assistants / 3rd party physical switch

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Hi all,
hueessential is a great app. congrats.

I am writing for a simple question related to scenes activation / deactivation on IKEA tradfri.

As you may know Ikea recently released scenes in the new app version, still dedicated Ikea switches are not yet avaialble nor voice assistants (google home / alexa) seem to allow voice based scene selection.

Do you have any suggestion on either one of the 2 below use cases i would like to implement?

  1. Change scenes via google home / alexa? I was thinking to leverage hueessential + tasker + some voice assistant plugin, but it seems to me overcomplicated…

  2. Change scenes, leveraging physical switch, maybe connected to Hueessential (as IKEA platform seems quite closed)?

thanks

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  1. We do not support Google Home at this time. I think your suggestion with using Tasker is a good idea for now.
  2. Would you like to use a physical switch to control IKEA scenes? In that case, I think the easiest solution would be to use deCONZ instead of the IKEA gateway for that.