Asking Alexa on my temperature 🌡️ sensor

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It’s possible but you will need to set up the custom integration “Alexa Media Player” then you can set up a dummy entity to trigger replies based on the routine you set up.

here is a (looooong) thread about it:

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NOTE: Because of the age of this thread, we can’t edit the first post anymore and it is outdated.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…

Here is the thread about the dummy entity:

Ask Alexa for State of an Entity using Dummy bulb

I have been using the Alexa Media component as a TTS delivery mechanism and the Alexa App routines function, to ask Alexa about the state of various entities Edit updated program to render Grammatical sentences (unlike me ) EDIT replaced this program with Speech Parser script to extract entity Id information into readable form for Alexa or Google Assistant TTS For example, Alexa is the patio door open. I have been using individual input boolean to trigger these responses…