Custom intents conflict easily with built in intents

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Hi All,
I’ve been battling away trying to get custom intents working as I want to be able to say “Play X on Y in Z” and really constraint what Y and Z are.

My intent “works” if i put something unique in it like “abracadabra Play X on Y in Z” :smiley: however without that uniquness, i easily clash with HassMediaSearchAndPlay which seems to have template sentenses for all sorts.

I suppose what I’m looking for is the ability to some how rank my custom intents more highly than the default ones, or even turn the default ones off, but I cannot find any way to do this.

Apologies if this is a dumb question, I’m reasonably new to custom intents.

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Are you using llm or speech to phrase builtin assist without llm or resolve local first (need to know which problem were solving)

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I played around a fair bit with customs and sentence triggers earlier in the year and have forgotten some of this, but looking back at some notes I made, here are a couple of thoughts:

  • If both a Sentence Trigger and a built-in intent matches, the Sentence trigger action seems to take precedence. So maybe try a sentence trigger.
  • I have written what is called an “extension” to an existing built-in response (an extension is a custom that uses the same name as the built-in) and found that my custom response actions are run instead of the built-in ones. So if HassMediaSearchAndPlay match the intents you like, but you want a different action(s), you can try this method.
  • Here is one I have not tried. You may want to try to “extend” the existing HassMediaSearchAndPlay built-in intent. Normally the “extended” intent is not suppose to conflict with the built-in one, just “extends” it. However try and see what happens when your custom extension intent of HassMediaSearchAndPlay matches the built-in intents and see if yours takes precedence.