Asking Alexa for information

[sd_dracula]

@pedolsky

{% elif (states.light.dialog.attributes.brightness | int / 255 * 100 ) | int == 20 %}

I did create the last_called sensor and also added 0.5 delay before the update_last_called and before the notify.alexa_media_last_called which did seem to help and yes they are the older echoes without the cloth so maybe that was why.

  action:
  - delay:
      seconds: 0.5
  - service: alexa_media.update_last_called
  - delay:
      seconds: 0.5
  - service: notify.alexa_media_last_called
    data:
      message: >-
        {% if (state_attr('light.dialog', 'brightness') | int / 255 * 100 ) | int == 10  %}
          The battery is currently at {{ states('sensor.solar_battery_soc') }} percent
        {% elif (state_attr('light.dialog', 'brightness') | int / 255 * 100 ) | int == 20  %}
          The EV battery is currently at {{ states('sensor.charging_level_hv') }} percent
        {% elif (state_attr('light.dialog', 'brightness') | int / 255 * 100 ) | int == 30  %}
          The electric range is {{ states('sensor.remaining_range_electric') }} kilometers
        {% else %}
          There is no routine set up for that value.
        {% endif %}
      data:
        type: tts
  - service: light.turn_off
    entity_id: light.dialog

I have also added two more routines but for some reason this one doesn’t work {% elif (state_attr('light.dialog', 'brightness') | int / 255 * 100 ) | int == 30 %} keeps going down to the there is no routine set up bit and I have no idea why, the brightness is set to 30 in the routine itself.
Can anyone spot anything incorrect (the value of that sensor is 0 at this moment)

[Didgeridrew]

The code looks fine, but check the arithmetic that comes out of your template if you paste it into the template editor in Developer Tools.

Just paste {{ (state_attr('light.dialog', 'brightness') | int / 255 * 100) | int }} into the template editor, trigger Alexa to run the range routine, and make sure the output from the template is actually returning 30. Sometimes you can get weird rounding errors… 30% of 255 is 76.5 rounded up it works, rounded down it fails:

{{ ((76.5)|int / 255 * 100) | int }} returns 29

If that’s what you see in the template editor, your options are to just change what’s after “==” to 29, or to modify your templates to compensate by rounding:

{% elif ((state_attr('light.dialog', 'brightness') | int) / 255 * 100) | round() | int == 30 %}

I would suggest modifying the templates since you could run into similar arithmetic issues if you create messages for 50%, 70%, and 90%.

[sd_dracula]

Yup that was it, coming back as 29 and now 30 with the round() and works ok, thanks

[josy1024 (josef lahmer)]

Based on your Idea’s i’ve create a Node-Red Version of your Sequence:

(Dummy, Trigger and Condition Handling does Node-Red)

Asking Alexa for Information with Node-Red

That’s my Way to Query Home-Assistant Sensor data with Alexa: Create Dummy Light Object with NodeRed Create Alexa Routine to set the Dummy Light to 10% Create Script “Speak Sensor” to use TTS to send to Alexa current Sensor Data (Temp and Humidy) Use NodeRed to if Dummy Light Object was Triggert to 10% Percentage and call “Speak Sensor” Script. Why use This? Just Add a Alex Routines to use to set different Percentages to query Other Sensor Data. You need: Amazon Echo TTS Integration in…

Thanks!

[TheBenga]

Hi @sd_dracula (or anybody else!)

I don’t know if this is the right way / done thing, but I’m a fairly new HA adopter, loving it, but looking for some help. I’m pretty much wanting to do exactly the same as you attempted in this thread. But Templates and Media Player are very very much on the fringe of my skills. I’ve made solid headway into implementing the solution here but am stuck at what i feel is the final hurdle (and am prob only about 70% understanding how this actually works!)

Would it be possible to get some advice / assistance? I’d really appreciate it!

Thanks if you can!