Alexa Skill to display Lovelace dashboards on Echo Show

Configuration Voice Assistant
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i love it! Can you do a video tutorial? Thanks! or help me with videos o snapshot?
Thanks!

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I’m glad you like it! Have you already tried to follow the instructions on Github? I really tried my best to be as detailed as possible (e.g. almost every step has a screenshot). If you have problems with a specific step, please tell me. I will gladly help you and improve the respective section in the instructions.

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Hi, your tutorial was great and it worked for my echo show. But is it possible to make it work on my Fire Tv. When I make it run on the fire tv it turns the screen black and goes back to where it was.

Thanks!

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Hi, sorry for the late reply. Great that the tutorial worked for your Echo Show! Unfortunately I have no idea if the skill could be adapted to make it work on the Fire TV and since I don’t have one, I am also unable to test this.

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I love it! Brilliant. Looks great on my Echo Show 8 :sunglasses:

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Thank you so much for this guide, it has certainly simplified getting the dashboard to display on the Echo Show.
Would you be able to create a Blueprint that calls the skill and keeps calling it every 9 minutes so it doesn’t time out back to the home screen? There is already a blueprint that does something similar for the Google hubs here: Cast and re-cast a lovelace view to a Google Hub

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This can be done very easily. Assuming you have created a routine that opens the skill, you only have to set up an automation in Home Assistant that triggers the routine every 5 minutes with Alexa Media Player (using a time pattern trigger). Here is a blueprint for an automation that does exactly that:

Open your Home Assistant instance and show the blueprint import dialog with a specific blueprint pre-filled.

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Thank you aldadic great job, clean, efficent.

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this is great however i am confused at the least step where you set Skill testing is enabled to “Development”. it works but eventually it goes back to off and I always have to go back in test tap and change it to development. this defeats the purpose. How do I get it to stick?

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That’s really weird. I tried to recreate the issue (even on a different account), but I couldn’t: Once I set Skill testing is enabled in: to Development, it stays that way. In general, I don’t think that this issue is related to the skill but rather is a problem of the Alexa developer console. I really hope that this was only temporary. Do you still have this problem?

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Totally agree with you, all works like a charm but it would be great if someone knows how to hide the browser search bar.

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The browser bar disappears when you scroll down slightly, I wonder if you could make a javascript code to scroll down the website just enough for it to disappear?

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This is awesome. Works like a treat. Any call limits using this on aws servers?

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That would finish the project perfectly :+1:t3:

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This is something I actually already tried, however, without success. When I tested this, the JavaScript functions window.scrollTo() and window.scrollBy() did in fact scroll the page, but the browser search bar still remained. I guess the browser search bar only disappears when you “physically” scroll down.

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Good question. I found this page on the Alexa Developer Documentation:

It says Unlimited free AWS Lambda requests, so there should be no limit I guess.

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Bit of a longshot but I wonder if we can utilise this ‘hidden’ web browser in some way.

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I’ve just figured out you can input go to chrome://about and view a whole range of browser settings for the Silk Browser. In particular chrome://flags allows you to change a whole host of settings for the browser. Surely something in here could be utilised to enable a fullscreen mode.

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Hello,

Anyboby knows if this is possible to execute a skill by touching the screen instead of vocal command ?

For example, open a Home Assistant link when I touch the clock on the screen !

Thanks in advance for your support.

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I am pretty sure that it is not possible to trigger anything on an Echo Show by touching the display.
What I would suggest is to use …

  1. a smart button to trigger a Home Assistant automation …
  2. that calls an Alexa routine (via Alexa Media Player) …
  3. which executes this skill (and thus opens the requested home assistant page).

I’ve described this idea on the usage page in the documentation on GitHub.