Does anyone know of a way to fetch the deviceid from an alexa command that hass receives via emulated hue?
My dream is it would be really cool to trigger a command via alexa, “Alexa turn on XXX”, which fires a hass script, get the device id of the alexa device and then do some tts to that particular alexa device.
I think we are close to having all the pieces:
Just wondering if anyone has ventured far with this yet?
Thanks!
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Using the Amazon smart home api, which is what the “alexa turn on XXX” uses, that information is not available in the request.
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/device-apis/alexa-powercontroller.html
This is something I have wanted forever and even posted ages ago back on the Amazon developers forum but got no responses.
Thanks for the info. What a shame its still not straight forward!!
Any other ways via a custom skill or other people can think of?
Made alexa skills before, so not opposed to a bit of code…
it is possible.
with the script from loetzimmer.de you can send a command to find out which device has send the last command.
so in the emulated hue code should be something added that when a command is recieved there is send that command to know where it came from.
i havent had the time to look into it, but it should be possible.
other option would be to add that command as a sensor to HA and then use automations when an emulated hue command comes in.