I have created a script to ask Alexa “how much petrol do I have left in my car”. This works fine if i ask my kitchen echo, which is what i put on the service bit.
But what i want to do is have Alexa reply on only the echo I speak to, so for example if i ask my living room echo “how much petrol do I have left in my car” she will only respond on that echo
I have seen you can create groups but alexa then reply’s on all my echos.
question_outside_temperature:
sequence:
- service: alexa_media.update_last_called
- delay: "00:00:01"
- service: notify.alexa_media
data:
target: "{{ states('sensor.last_called_alexa') }}"
data:
type: tts
message: >
{% if states('sensor.outside_temperature') |length > 2 %}
Die Temperatur im Garten beträgt {{ states('sensor.outside_temperature') |replace('.', ',') |round(1) }} Grad.
{% else %}
Die Temperatur im Garten beträgt {{ states('sensor.outside_temperature') }} Grad.
{% endif %}
{% if states('sensor.8_hour_rain_forecast_total') | float == 0 %}
Regen ist nicht in Sicht.
{% elif states('sensor.8_hour_rain_forecast_total') | float > 0 and states('sensor.8_hour_rain_forecast_total') | float < 1 %}
Es wird leichter Regen erwartet
{% else %}
Es wird stärkerer Regen erwartet.
{% endif %}
From time to time the status of the timers stops working. So e.g. the timers are unavailable, even if one is set. After restarting the integration, it is working again and the status is shown.
As I would like to automate the restart in such situations, I wonder if someone has any clue, how to “see” if the integration is currently not working.
E.g. one of the alexa entities is then in a whatever state, which it should not the case. Currently, I can only see that the other status are fine and working in such cases and there is no break or unavailability. Only the timers are not there/updatet.
To check just sensor.echo_dot_next_timer will not make any sense, because it is unavailable if it is not set and if the integration is not working, so I cannot distinguish between them.
I have been using Alexa plugin for awhile but one thing I cannot figure out is how to get it to discover my actual Alexa players. I was looking for a way to play messages or interact with my Alexa devices but when I searched for media_player entities I do not have any of my Alexa’s showing up. Am I missing a step? I linked the accounts and my Alexa’s do discover newly added items in Home Assistant so they must be connected somehow. Is there something I need to do to have all my Alexa’s discovered and added to HA?
By “Alexa plugin” you mean Alexa media player? If so then …
Does Configuration → Integrations show an Alexa Media Player integration?
If so what does it show when you click on devices within the integration?
These are your media players.
If you click on entities you will see all your Alexa entities including the media players
I would like to play different mp3s in shuffle or randomly.
This will probably not work via the “notify.alexa_media” service. (at least nothing is known to me) ((alternative might be nodered here?!?))
But via the service: “media_player.play_media” it should also be possible to use this in automations?! In combination with Alexa?
And here you should be able to play MP3’s in shuffle.
service: media_player.play_media
data_template:
entity_id:
- media_player.my_echo_dot
media_content_type: MP3
media_content_id: |
{{ ["https://loremipsum.com/files/mp3/003.mp3",
"https://loremipsum.com/files/mp3/004.mp3",
"https://loremipsum.com/files/mp3/005.mp3",
"https://loremipsum.com/files/mp3/006.mp3"] | random }}
```
But this doesen´t work.
but unfortunately somehow ONLY from my server.
now i’ve tried to upload the whole thing to amazons3, for example, but then i get the error again: simon says eu skill…
edit:
I uploaded the same file to amazon s3, for example.
but is not played.
I can not understand that unfortunately
after a long time, i have started using alexa media player custom component.
i have logged-in to alexa account with 2fa with integration,
all my devices show in the list, but none of them are unavailable,
am i missing something?
I’m not having luck on my dedicated thread, so i thought i’d give this one a shot.
I’m trying to figure out how i can make an automation that triggers when a new timer is added or removed from the alexa timer sensor. One timer isn’t an issue (there’s also an example here on the github), the issue is when multiple timers are added in one go (low likelihood), or remove (very likely, especially when asking alexa to cancel all timers). I need to recognize which timer IDs were added/removed.
Hi, after update to 2022.4.6 the states of my devices are not shown. I did not see set reminders or timers and after starting music, the media player entities are not reported as playing. Commands from HA to the devices and vice versa working as usual. TTS as well.
What’s wrong?
