With regard to moni.ai - I'm missing something - can't seem to get it to work. Can someone point me in the right direction. Can I use it to control my GE lights or the Lutron switch?
Unless something has changed since I tried it, you should be able to do anything that you can launch via IFTTT. Moni just provides a front-end trigger to IFTTT to activate a recipe that you've created.
Basically, first you'd need to make a shortcut for whatever you want to do in the Wink app. Then add the Wink shortcut and Moni channels to IFTTT. It will prompt you for credentials to sign-in for both. Then in the Moni channel in IFTTT, create a recipe that says whenever I say whatever string, then do whatever shortcut. It will present a list of shortcuts from Wink to pick from. That's pretty much it.
It's not as convenient and integrated as "OK Google..." but it does work and can be used cross-platform and probably a little easier for most than setting up some of the other ways via Tasker and voice controls. Or did work anyway when I tried it the other day before the recent updates.