I have this done with follow part in configuration.yaml
smart_home:
endpoint: https://api.eu.amazonalexa.com/v3/events
client_id: !secret alexa_client_id
client_secret: !secret alexa_client_secret
filter:
include_entities:
- light.livingroom_all
- light.dressoir_all
- light.hallway
- light.balcony
- light.kitchen_all
Follow the tutorial on this page:
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Hello,
first of all thx for the your huge input into Homeassistant, i really appreciate this!!!
One small question:
how can i play in an Alexa Group?
I have a group called “wohnung” and i have an entity called “media_player.wohnung”, which is availible and has 56253 supported_feautures^^.
But if i call following:
- entity: media_player.wohnung
image: /local/AntenneBayern.png
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: media_player.play_media
service_data:
entity_id: media_player.wohnung
media_content_id: Antenne Bayern
media_content_type: TUNEIN
nothing happens,
it is working with
entity_id:media_player.echo_dot_wohnen
on 1 device.
Do i miss something?
Thx in Advance
Wiesl
sry, i am no native speaker.
This means that it can work or not and i have no syntax error or anything?
i donnot understand, what the group “guest.room” or “everywhere” is?
Sry for the dumb question.
My setup is 2 Echo Dots in one group called “wohnen”.
i can play on any of the two Echos via ServiceCall :
entity_id: media_player.echo_dot_wohnen
or
entity_id: media_player.echo_dot_schlafen
but i cannot play any media on both simultanioulsy.
can you please share the workaround or hack for this example.
Thx in Advance
Wiesl
You could just send the same message to both echos using target and putting both of your echos there?
From the Wiki:
doorbell:
sequence:
- service: media_player.volume_set
entity_id: media_player.downstairs
data:
volume_level: '1.0'
- service: notify.alexa_media
data:
data:
type: tts
target:
- media_player.downstairs
- media_player.upstairs
message: 'Ding-dong. Someone is at the door.'
Or you can a group in HA. for example “group.alexamedia” and call the automation like this below:
- service: notify.alexa_media
data:
data:
type: announce
target:
- group.alexamedia
message: "Your Message goes Here!"
I am really struggling here, I am trying to get a basic automation to work. My wife and I work odd schedules and with winter coming it would be good to know if either one gets to work safely.
My use case is when someone arrives or leaves a location, send a tts announcement to a device or group. here is where i am…
this is the basic automation I can’t seem to get to work. If any one has an idea please clue me in…
- id: 'location announce alert'
alias: ' Jack is leaving work - tts'
trigger:
- entity_id: device_tracker.jack
event: arrive
platform: zone
zone: zone.work
action:
- data:
entity_id: media_player.office_2
message: "Jack has just left work"
service: notify.alexa_media
Have you looked at the docs or even the post right before yours?
You don’t have the “data:” section syntax correct. It needs a “target:” and “type:” of tts.
I use the “to” option (my wife for some reason doesn’t think this is funny but it definitely works). I don’t use entity_id (I think that is old), use target instead. I use state instead of zone in the trigger and that works very well. You could do “from” instead of “to” for triggering on leaving a zone.
- id: alexa_notify_person1_has_arrived
alias: "Alexa Notify - Angelo has arrived"
initial_state: 'on'
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: person.angelo
to: "home"
condition:
- condition: time
after: '15:00:00'
before: '19:30:00'
action:
- service: notify.alexa_media
data:
target:
- media_player.main_show
- media_player.kitchen_show
- media_player.kitchen
data:
type: announce
message: 'Hear ye, hear ye, the one, the only, the man who needs no introduction, the man with the plan, Angelo, yes I said Angelo, is now arriving.'
I assume you need help in German so hopefully one of those regulars can explain. But first Alexa relies on multiroom groups. While we can create an entity for the group once you make one, you can’t directly make it play. You have to hack the service by adding the verbal command to play to the group.
That’s what I do as well
Did anyone get the new alarm, reminder and timer sensors after update? My HA is not showing them at all. The clear history service is available.
Are you using filters like include_devices? That will stop them from being discovered.
Ah yes, that was the problem… again 
@Montie, any way to get Alexa to whisper without the announce beep? Any way to disable the leading chime?
No. TTS won’t have the beep but it cannot process SSML.
I’ve been using this integration for a year or so and recall seeing my bluetooth speakers listed with each echo device where I had set them up in the Alexa App. I’m now on the most current version and I can’t see the bluetooth speakers in the Source or Source List on the states page. Am I alone? Is there a config option I need to select to show and then select the alternate speakers?
Speakers are not Bluetooth sources. They are sinks. You can still connect to them using a source call but they won’t show in the UI.
EDIT: add link
Thanks for the link. So, I need to use the BT Speaker Devices as paired in the Alexa App and the BT speakers paired to a specific Echo device are no longer available as an attribute to the Echo in HA?