In your everyday household cleaning routine, utilizing convenient voice commands can greatly simplify your life. Here, we will demonstrate how to use voice commands with Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri to control your Tapo robot vacuum for a variety of cleaning tasks.

Note: To use voice commands, you will need devices that support voice assistants, such as Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub, Apple HomePod, iPhone, or iPad.

 

 

Amazon Alexa

Whole Home Cleaning

Use the following voice commands, Alexa can control your Tapo robot vacuum to start a whole-home cleaning.

a. Start cleaning: Alexa, turn on <vacuum name>
b. End cleaning/Dock: Alexa, turn off <vacuum name>
    

Custom Cleaning

Tapo has a Shortcut feature that provides you with more precise control over your robot vacuum, allowing you to clean specific rooms or areas and create detailed cleaning preferences, such as the number of cleaning cycles, suction power, and water level for mopping. Once your Tapo account is linked to your Alexa account, the shortcuts created in Tapo will automatically sync to the Alexa app and be recognized as a scene. This allows you to use voice commands to direct Alexa to carry out custom cleaning with your robot vacuum.  

 

How to do this?

1. Create a Tapo shortcut with the preferred cleaning settings for the vacuum. How to create Smart Action (Automation or Shortcut) on Tapo app
2. Once the Tapo shortcut is created, it will be synced to the bound Alexa account (App) automatically.

3. Now, you're ready to go!

Initiate a custom cleaning task: Alexa, turn on <shortcut name>

 

Tips: If Alexa cannot understand the command, rename the shortcut to something that won't confuse the voice assistant.  

  

Don't want to rename the shortcuts? Don’t worry, Alexa routine can do a favor! Customize a voice control command to control a smart home scene (Tapo shortcut): 

Create a new Alexa routine: 

• Trigger > Voice event: When you say 'Alexa, xxxx' 
• Action > Smart Home - Scenes: Alexa will turn on: xxxx (scene) 

 

For example, using a simple command to control a shortcut that has a longer name:

When anyone says 'Alexa, start living room plan A', Alexa will turn on (scene) 'Living Room Standard Cleaning - Vac & Mop Once'.

 

 

Control Vacuum Features 

*Applicable for Matter-enabled Tapo robot vacuums. 

Function	Voice Command
Mapping	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> mapping
Start Cleaning	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> cleaning
Pause Cleaning	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> standby
Recharge/Go Home	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> go home
Quiet Vacuum (dust only)	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> quiet vacuum
Standard Vacuum (dust only)	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> standard vacuum
Turbo Vacuum (dust only)	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> turbo vacuum
Max Vacuum (dust only)	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> max vacuum
Quiet Vacuum and Mop*	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> quiet vacuum and mop
Standard Vacuum and Mop*	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> standard vacuum and mop
Turbo Vacuum and Mop*	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> turbo vacuum and mop
Max Vacuum and Mop*	Alexa, <robot vacuum name> max vacuum and mop

*Water level will be set to Moderate by default. 

 

Google Assistant 

• Start cleaning: Google, turn on <vacuum name> 

• Pause cleaning: Google, pause <vacuum name> 

• End cleaning/Dock: Google, turn off <vacuum name> 

• Adjust suction power: Google, set <vacuum name>suction to close/quiet/normal/large/largest 

• Adjust water level: Google, set <device name>cistern to close/ least/normal/wet  

 

 

Siri 

Maximize the potential of Shortcuts! Tapo features a Shortcut function that provides more precise control over your robot vacuum, allowing you to clean specific rooms or areas and create detailed cleaning preferences, such as the number of cleaning cycles, suction power, and water level for mopping.   

  

Similarly, iOS has its own shortcut feature, which is key to enabling Siri voice control. Tapo shortcuts can be managed through iOS Shortcuts, and as an iOS feature, iOS Shortcuts can be controlled via Siri. 

  

   

How to use Siri to control your Tapo robot vacuum?  

1. Create a Tapo shortcut. How to create Smart Action (Automation or Shortcut) on Tapo app 

2. Create an iOS shortcut: 

  a. Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone or iPad 

  b. Add a new shortcut, search Tapo in the action list.   

  c. Choose a Tapo shortcut. 

  d. Rename the iOS shortcut, then click Done to save the settings. 

3. Time to call Siri! Talk to Siri with the voice command: Siri, <iOS shortcut name>