Alexa and Home Assistant TTS, Media Player, Announcements, Sound Effects, Sequence Commands
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Building custom commands and Flash Briefing require your Home Assistant instance to be accessible from the Internet with HTTPS on port 443. The configuration is the same as an intent with the exception being you will use your skill ID instead of the intent name. One of the most useful applications of Alexa integrations is to call scenes directly.
0-9 will return any attribute as listed in the developers state attribute column. I have updated the code b will give the % brightness and B will give you the level. I used a dummy bulb as it gives 100 triggers by just using 1 entity. I don’t have lovelace install or configure, but I use the default tab to test the announcements. To avoid issues with Alexa built in timer functionality.
Alexa Smart Home Component Configuration
Home assistant automatons do not allow the use of any persistent data. So, this project uses two Input selects to hold the data. Activate scenes with scene name, or “turn on” utterance. Home Assistant does not support deactivate or “turn off” for scenes at this time. Display category will default to CAMERA to enable presence detected notification settings in the Alexa App. Each Echo device will need the communication and Announcements setting enabled, and the Do Not Disturbed feature turned off.
If you don’t have HACS, this is not an issue, just check this tutorial first and then come back here. Alexa Media Player is the the integration that we need to install in order to proceed further. You can either install it manually or using HACS . Send notifications including text-to-speech, announcements and different sound effects. Smart Home API also needs your Home Assistant instance to be accessible from the Internet. There may be times when you want to act to a session ended request initiated from a lack of voice response.
Alexa Locale
After discovery, the Alexa app will offer the ability to use the existing code, or create an additional 4 digit PIN to use with Alexa. To limit which entities are being exposed to Alexa, you can use the filter parameter. Keep in mind that only supported platforms can be added. Click Functions in the left navigation bar, to display the list of your Lambda functions. The first thing you need to do after signing into the AWS console is to create an IAM Role for Lambda execution.
Semantics are assigned based on the features supported by the cover. Covers should be configured with the appropriate device_class. Each Echo device will need the communication and Announcements setting enabled, and the Do Not Disturb feature turned off. Device_classAlexa Sensor TypedoorContactgarage_doorContactopeningContactwindowContactmotionMotionpresenseMotionAsk Alexa for the state of a contact sensor.
Create an AWS Lambda Function
You can replace entity_id template with simple string name of Echo entity if you wanna use it on single Echo instance. Control lights with “turn on” and “turn off” utterances, adjust brightness, color, and temperature. In order to enable this, buttons will appear to have “presence detection” capability. This is what allows this functionality since Alexa does not support button type devices. To trigger a routine when a button is pressed, select the button in the when menu and then select the “Person” capability. On an old installation of home assistant I set up alexa media player but had to do it to manual way.
One of my 3 Echo dots gen. 3 failed so I decided to go with 16k for all of them. Try test the Alexa integration from Developer tools to see if it is working. I didn’t test the Mini media player recently so it may have some issues. Click Functions in the left navigation bar, display list of your Lambda functions. You first need sign in your AWS console, if you don’t have an AWS account yet, you can create a new user here with 12-month free tier benefit.
Automatic setup via Home Assistant Cloud
It is strongly recommended to check the configuration section and setup control of which devices and entities are exposed. Now, we gotta create all the HA entities required for our service to run. You may have already notice two text_input references in apps.yaml file. The first is the main text input for speech service. The second, temporary output used to trigger Alexa skill execution on change.
I guest that not everything is supported by this integration that’s all. Add the following text inside the “Manual” card and don’t forget to change the entity and entity_id with yours in order everything to work as expected. When you hit the “CALL SERVICE” button you should hear a door 🔔 sound . Additional sounds to test can be found here – link. Don’t forget to change the “CHANGE_ME_TO_YOUR_DEVICE” with you device and then you can click on “CALL SERVICE” button. Support for viewing and controlling devices with the Alexa mobile app.
However when I try to setup a routine and select one of my sensor I get the error “device not supported at the moment” . Since version 0.85, the Home Assistant’s Alexa component supports proactive reporting of devices’ states to Alexa. What this means is that when a device’s state changes, Home Assistant will let Alexa know of that change.
Now remove the long-lived access token , copy the ARN of your Lambda function, then navigate back to the Alexa Developer Console. You will finish the configuration of the Smart Home skill. The routine sees the binary sensor, and I can add the binary sensor to the routine and can set the state the routine is to look for (in my example to “open”).
Activate Buttons and Input Buttons with the button name, or “turn on” utterance. Binary Sensors with a device_class attribute of door garage_door opening window motion presense are supported. If you don’t have LONG_LIVED_ACCESS_TOKEN set, or you haven’t enabled DEBUG you will get a INVALID_AUTHORIZATION_CREDENTIAL response as the execution result.
I’m sure that if I set a timer on an alexa it showed it on the player on home assistant. I have since reinstalled my system as hass.io and used hacs to install the alexa media player but it doesn’t show the timers. Yes, I have copied all your codes and used the input select to select individual list of phrases.
Alexa will now respond with a random phrase each time. You can use the include for as many different intents as you like so you only need to create the list once. When activated, the Alexa integration will have Home Assistant’s native intent support handle the incoming intents. If you want to run actions based on intents, use the intent_script integration.
If exactly same text is typed as input TTS service is not being called again to save the request quota and bandwidth. AppDaemon configuration pageThis will install all external dependencies for our AppDaemon instance. Google TTS service running on AppDaemon, connected with custom Alexa skill. When you are not lucky enough to have native support of your language in Alexa service you may find this interesting.
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