Does Home Assistant Voice have no capabilities (for now)?

Configuration Voice Assistant
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I’m a newcomer to HA, and I’m absolutely in love with the platform. So I don’t mean to sound critical. But I’m not sure if I’m missing something.

Is this normal (for now)?

Or do I have something misconfigured?

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Don’t use it myself, but my understanding is that Assist has a relatively small number of built-in sentences as yet - yours are a bit ambitious.

If you want anything more elaborate you can create your own.

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Until just now I hadn’t even tried using it, but it worked straight away:

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…until I asked the same time question as you.

Controlling lights works fine:

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As @Stiltjack commented… The “Sorry…” message usually means there isn’t an intent for what you have asked.

language: "en"
intents:
  TimeCheck:
    data:
      - sentences:
          - "what time is it"
          - "what is the time"
          - "have you got the time"
  TodayDateCheck:
    data:
      - sentences:
          - "what date is it [today]"
          - "what is [today's|the] date [today]"
          - "have you got [today's|the] date"

intent_script:
  TimeCheck:
    speech:
      text: "The time is {{now().strftime('%-H:%M')}}"
  TodayDateCheck:
    speech:
      text: "Today is {{now().strftime('%A, %B %d')}}"
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Mine doesn’t work at all - apparently you need to be configured for https. Think I’ll stick with Alexa. :roll_eyes: