Control any HA device using Alexa voice just using a bare-bones ESP8266 with Tasmota

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There have been a few other methods of doing the same thing with no need of hardware at all by creating a virtual dimmable light in HA.

you can do a search for “dummy light” to bring up some examples but here is one:

Create a virtual Dimmer or light template for Alexa

I have created lots of automation’s via the Alexa routines feature, which then switches input boolean components in HA to action the request. This is getting cumbersome using one input boolean for each routine. I would like to create a virtual dimmer in HA then expose this entity to Alexa. This would give me a 100 different responses via the dimmer, using just one entity, is this possible?

and one that takes the concept to a whole new level of functionality (and complexity! ):

Alexa Speak entity attributes. A Speech Engine

Edit I have updated the code to add more features please use the code present in this first post not in subsequent posts Latest code will always be here on the first post , or on my GitHub page GitHub - lonebaggie/Home_Assistant-Config: Home Assistant Configuration in the Automation folder @ duceduc thanks for testing I have re-written this using a node-red flow This script simplifies the tasks of passing entity details for Alexa to speak using the brilliant Alexa speech modu…