Building Alexa Skills with the Alexa Skills Kit

Hi all,

I want to be able to use Alexa to control my HASS devices. I followed the steps described here. It works well and I am now able to control my lights and garage doors by simply asking Alexa. I built the Alexa skills using the online tool from Amazon and I included detailed dialog using required slots. For example, if I say “Alexa, ask Home Assistant to open my garage door”, it should ask me back which one I want to open (there are two of them). Or if I simply say “Alexa, ask Home Assistant right garage door”, it should ask me if I want to close or to open it. Things like that, and the same thing for lights.

However, the interactions do not work. The intent works well if I provide all the details, but there are no interactions if required slots are not provided by the person asking. What I am missing? After a few hours of research, I can’t find the answer. What do I need to do to enable this?

BTW, I’m using the latest build with HASSio running on a Raspberry Pi.

Thanks!

I just saw this post. Is something like that required to get the conversation dialog working with Alexa and HA?