Ask alexa about a sensor state

[lonebaggie]

I have updated my code to run

Echo Devices (Alexa) as Media Player - Testers Needed

NOTE: Because of the age of this thread, we can’t edit the first post anymore and it is outdated. For current installation instructions and latest information, please see the Wiki. I’m excited to share with you all a component that I have been working on for the last week that allows controlling amazon echo devices (and clones) directly in home assistant! What This Is: This topic and this post is a place I hope to use to collaborate with enthusiastic Home Assistant users that w…

This an Appdeamon script so needs the Appdeamon add-in

https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/ecosystem/appdaemon/

If you’re not currently running Appdeamon the learning curve is quite steep.

I assume you are using emulated hue or Alexa Cloud to connect to HA and have the Alexa media player working?

If so why not simply create a script to extract the sensor value to put into the Alexa media player TTS and then call the script from Alexa using the routines in the phone app. This will also allow you to use a custom response so, for example, you can respond with “The door is”. The script will run and this will complete the sentence.

My script will give a full audit like in StarTrek so maybe a little too much information. Documentation is in the script header.

Hope this helps