This is great, I’m looking foward to using it for some of my notifications.
While trying it out with my setup (Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with remote access over Nabu Casa) I initially a problem where, after answering “Yes” or “No”, it would just respond with “Sorry, I had trouble doing what you asked. Please try again.”. This was easily fixed by tweaking the timeouts in the Lambda function.
If anyone else has the same issue simply find all all instances of timeout=urllib3.Timeout(connect=2.0, read=10.0) and change the timeout values until it works for you. I currently have it at timeout=urllib3.Timeout(connect=10.0, read=10.0) although, judging from the response times, I don’t think the connect timeout actually needs to be that high.
Thanks for all of this! I’ve got most of it working except the very last step. I think there might be a typo in the example in the docs? I have a lock, so I’m using your example basically verbatim. I’ve changed the lock entity id, that’s it.
In the activate_alexa_actionable_notification script your example contain this line:
value: "{'text': '{{ text }}', 'event': '{{ event_id }}'}"
But this causes my Echo show to say something like ‘Sorry I had trouble doing what you asked, please try again’.
However I can make it work by changing that line to:
value: '{"text": "The front door has been unlocked for 5 mins, would you like me to lock it?", "event": "actionable_notification_lock_left_unlocked"}'
So it seems like it could be a formatting error in the example?
I believe it’s a issue with too many quotation marks in the example. In the example the automation’s data_template has quotation marks, but in the script the input_text.set_value data_template also has quotation marks. I’ve got it working now by taking the quotation marks out of the automation’s data_template:
automation:
- alias: Front door left unlocked for 5 mins
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: lock.assa_abloy_yale_conexis_l1_sd_l1000_ch_locked
to: 'unlocked'
for:
minutes: 5
action:
- service: script.activate_alexa_actionable_notification_test
data_template:
text: The front door has been unlocked for 5 minutes, would you like me to lock it?
event_id: actionable_notification_lock_left_unlocked
alexa_device: media_player.kitchen_echo_show
script:
activate_alexa_actionable_notification_test:
description: 'Activate actionable door lock notification'
fields:
text:
description: 'The text you would like alexa to speak.'
event_id:
description: 'Correlation ID for event responses'
alexa_device:
description: 'Alexa device you want to trigger'
sequence:
- service: input_text.set_value
data_template:
entity_id: input_text.alexa_actionable_notification
value: '{"text": "{{ text }}", "event": "{{ event_id }}" }'
- service: media_player.play_media
data_template:
entity_id: media_player.kitchen_echo_show
media_content_type: skill
media_content_id: amzn1.ask.skill.12345678901234567890
There could be two reasons.
One is that that my Alexa integration and account is setup for US in the first place. So they may have to match. (I created this before Alexa came to Europe).
The other can be that something was cached. When things did not work I updated the Apache config for the reverse proxy to match the updates that had been done on the Home Assistant documentation page. It did not work right way but maybe the Amazon side or the app on my iPad had something cached.
I did the Apache updates first and the updates to the URLs on the skill to US half an hour later and then it worked right away. So I cannot say for sure which one made it work
This is exactly what I’ve been dreaming about, but I’ve got one big problem: this is a google house. Is there ANY way to have google home do something similar? Can GH be forced to broadcast and listen/react to a response?
I’m still working out a bed time routine but this is awesome.
- alias: Bed Time
description: ''
trigger:
- at: '20:00:00'
platform: time
condition: []
action:
- data:
alexa_device: media_player.kevin_s_echo_dot
event_id: actionable_notification_bed_time
text: <amazon:emotion name='disappointed' intensity='high'>It is 8:00 PM, would
you like me to start getting ready for bed?</amazon:emotion>
service: script.activate_alexa_actionable_notification
@keatontaylor I’m currently on version 0.103.6 but does this require the latest version of home assistant?
I’ve skipped the acc linking as my duckdns url uses the the port number at the end. And I’ve also generated the long lived token from hass which I’ve pasted. Anything else I can do? Halp
I’m getting this in log:
Error while executing automation automation.test. Service not found for call_service at pos 1: Unable to find service input_text/set_value
