I made the conscious decision to go with Google over Amazon because the Alexa AI just doesn’t work as well as Google.
I’m trying to help a friend get started with HA, and they are using Alexa. In order to expose devices to Alexa I assume we are going to use an Alexa component, similar to the google assistant component.
I’ve looked at this page, and I know that using Home Assistant Cloud is a non starter. Since that option is out, I’m unsure of which is the “best” way of exposing Home Assistant devices to Alexa. I’m hoping there is something similar to the google_assistant: component where you specify what HA items you want to expose. I’m also assuming Alexa requires some sort of manual setup similar to what you have to do with Google Assistant if you are using the manual setup instead of Home Assistant’s cloud service.