Adding groups to Alexa via cloud component

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I’ve been trying to expose groups in Alexa but only particular ones. For this example, I’d just like to expose only a few basement groups but no matter what I try, Alexa won’t discover the groups. From my research, it sounds like Alexa will stick these within ‘Scenes’ but I don’t see them there or anywhere else. Any ideas?

Within my cloud.yaml…

alexa:
  filter:
    include_entities:
      - group.basement_bar_lights
      - group.basement_media_room_lights
      - group.basement_all_lights
    exclude_domains:
      - automation
      - script
      - alert
      - input_boolean
      - media_player
    entity_config:
      group.basement_bar_lights:
        name: Bar Lights
      group.basement_media_room_lights:
        name: Media Room Lights
      group.basement_all_lights:
        name: Basement Lights
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Maybe trying putting single quotes around the values on your name: lines.

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Single quotes didn’t do anything except failing to load the cloud component - so don’t do that in the future.

Groups are showing up today in Alexa…but all of them, not just the ones I requested via “include_entities”

4

Figured it out, on top of needing to include specific entities I had to exclude the entire group domain…

alexa:
  filter:
    include_entities:
      - group.basement_bar_lights
      - group.basement_media_room_lights
      - group.basement_all_lights
    exclude_domains:
      - automation
      - script
      - alert
      - input_boolean
      - media_player
      - group
  entity_config:
    group.basement_bar_lights:
      display_categories: LIGHT
      name: Bar Lights
    group.basement_media_room_lights:
      display_categories: LIGHT
      name: Media Room Lights
    group.basement_all_lights:
      display_categories: LIGHT
      name: Basement Lights
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