A bit confused about Alexa, Haaska and Custom Skills

[Ghimbo21]

Hi! I have configured Haaska and it works very well, but I wish to take a step further by creating a script with variables, for example “Alexa, turn on the oven for 20 minutes”.
Currently I have the Haaska/AWS connected skill. But I’ve seen, in the documentation, that I can create a custom intent. Which left me a bit confused, because I’m not sure how to proceed.

Do I need to create another skill and then connect in again to my HA installation? Or I can edit my Haaska skilla and configuration to make it works?

Thanks in advance.

[FPro (Florian)]

Yes, you need a separate custom skill

Amazon Alexa Custom Skill

Bear in mind that you will always have to say “ask Home Assistant” (or whatever your skill is named) before your command or question.

[lonebaggie]

You can use a messy “hack” by exposing a virtual bulb in HA to Alexa . Then you can use the value in the dimmer setting to trigger your automation . So in the Alexa routine you can set the bulb value . The dimmer will give you a value of 1 to 100. Not pretty but it will work

Create a virtual Dimmer or light template for Alexa

I have created lots of automation’s via the Alexa routines feature, which then switches input boolean components in HA to action the request. This is getting cumbersome using one input boolean for each routine. I would like to create a virtual dimmer in HA then expose this entity to Alexa. This would give me a 100 different responses via the dimmer, using just one entity, is this possible?