Alexa, Tell Home Assitant to turn off tv

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During testing on amazon it connects and runs the command fine on home assistant, i just cant invoke it by voice, im inclined to believe i can achieve this.

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like you say, the skills stay disabled.
find a way to enable the skills and it will probably work, but if i am correct amazon hasnt given that free.

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theres countless videos on youtube of people doing it so it is possible

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that gives me hope.
didnt think about looking at YouTube.

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I would suggest using HA Bridge than creating an alexa skill if you just want to turn on and off a TV.

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Neither are going to work for me until i fix this problem, it seems to do with alexa not picking up my skill

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Creeating skilll is fun exercise but I think creating skill may complicate this.

Try:

  1. create input boolean for TV ON/OFF function
  2. create automation so that input_boolean.TV ON = TV ON and opposite for OFF
  3. expose input_boolean.TV to Alexa using hue emulate and discover in Alexa
  4. “Alexa, turn ON TV” command should work

Creating skill adds the need to say “ask Home Assistant” wihich caused me confusion.

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The problem was i was in the uk, using a vpn and logging into us amazon solved it

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i am in Germany and also didnt get it to work that way. at least by me it errors with language problems.
but changing to english didnt help.

what do you mean using a vpn? on the RPI, mobile or what? and how ( i never really got a working VPN)
and you could log on to us amazon without creating a new account?

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For anyone with a FireTV I was able to get alexa to turn on/off my tv by enabling CEC on my tv and turning on/off my FireTV using adb commands.

Here’s the shell script:

#!/bin/bash
FIRE_TV_IP=192.168.1.7

adb kill-server
adb connect $FIRE_TV_IP

#Toggle Fire TV sleep on / off
adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_POWER
adb kill-server

Shell command yaml:

livingroom_tv_onoff: sh ~/.homeassistant/scripts/livingroom_tv_onoff.sh

Customization config code:

script.livingroom_tv_onoff:
  icon: mdi:television
  emulated_hue_name: "Livingroom TV"
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Thats strange. I’m also in the UK

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Yeah that is strange CommonBlob, Alexa only announced UK availability yesterday. You must have a US developer account?

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I thought that announcement was related to the Amazon Voice Service, not Skills kit (which we are creating).

Anyhow, glad you got it working :slight_smile:

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I’m coming from Iobroker and I think it has the best Alexa implementation for Smarthome so far. You don’t have to open a port and got it running in minutes!
So now it got Iobroker for Alexa commands (it’s installed as full home control, you don’t need to use a "ask iobroker to… " it’s just “Alexa switch on the lights in the kitchen”) and Hass for everything else!

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Hey there @mrMuppet

Can you please help me how you got your Alexa commands working as I am struggling with https and opening a port as my router doesnt allow to forward a port to another port.

Thanks.

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@raymiec

Could it be the reason why I am getting errors as I am following this guide (AWS Lambda Proxy Custom Alexa Skill when you don't have https) to set up Custom Skills without https and I am in the UK.

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Hi, as I wrote I use iobroker for Alexa!

http://www.iobroker.net/?page_id=5859&lang=de

(sorry, but I didn’t find English version. Perhaps you have to use translate.google.com)

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Thanks @mrMuppet

Do I have to install the iobroker adapter on my raspberry pi for it to work with Alexa?

Also I cannot find the iobroker skill in my alexa skills page. Is it because it could be not available for the UK?

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Iobroker is a alternative system to HA (like Openhab). Its not only an adapter.

The Skill is amazon.de
alexaskillstore.com

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oh right well it doesnt work with amazon.co.uk :frowning: