Fritz!Box Call Monitor + Alexa Announcements

This automation blueprint will make Alexa announce the current caller on the landline.

Requirements:

Blueprint:

Blueprint, which you can import by using this forum topic URL:

blueprint:
  name: Call Notification
  description: Send an announcement/tts via Alexa when somebody calls the landline
  domain: automation
  input:
    notify_entities:
      name: Entities to notify
      description: These must be media_player entities from the alexa_media custom integration.
      selector:
        target:
          entity:
            domain: media_player
            integration: alexa_media
    phone_entity:
      name: Phone sensor
      description: This sensor must be from the fritzbox_callmonitor integration.
      selector:
        entity:
          #integration: fritzbox_callmonitor
          domain: sensor
    announcement_switch:
      name: Use Announcement instead of TTS
      description: Announcements begin with a two-tone melody and will be silence when DnD mode is on. TTS on the other hand will not be impacted by DnD mode and will start immediately without the melody before.
      selector:
        boolean:
      default: false
    message_prefix:
      name: Message Prefix
      description: Message that will be appended before the name of the caller
      default: "Incoming call from: "
    message_suffix:
      name: Message Suffix
      description: Message that will be appended after the name of the caller
      default: ""
    message_unknown:
      name: Unknown text
      description: This is the text that will be said when no name is available (supressed or not in address book)
      default: "Unknown"
    more_action:
      name: More action
      description: If you want Home Assistant to do something else, you can define a custom action here. This is optional.
      default: []
      selector:
        action:

variables:
  # This is the state of the person when it's in this zone.
  announcement_switch: !input announcement_switch
  notify_entities: !input notify_entities
  phone_entity: !input phone_entity
  message_prefix: !input message_prefix
  message_suffix: !input message_suffix
  message_unknown: !input message_unknown

trigger:
  entity_id: !input phone_entity
  platform: state
  to: ringing
condition: []
action:
  - data_template:
      data:
        method: all
        type: "{% if announcement_switch %}announce{% else %}tts{% endif %}"
      message: >
        "{% set name = state_attr(phone_entity, 'from_name') %}
        {{ message_prefix }} {% if name == "unknown" %}{{ message_unknown }}{% else %}{{
        name }}{% endif %} {{ message_suffix }}"
      target: "{{ notify_entities.entity_id }}"
    service: notify.alexa_media
  - choose:
    default: !input more_action

mode: single

Comments:

I wanted to implement a way to add an optional action that gets executed after the announcement. I think this should be a default option, but I wasn’t able to execute a custom action after the announcement action. Please let me know if you know a way. This works now! You can add a custom action at the bottom.

Also, I didn’t get default values to work for the text selectors.

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To allow extractions:

In your automation action, add a choose with just a default action. Set the sequence to an input with the action selector that defaults to an empty list.

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Can you do that with the Google Assistant too?

Is this blueprint still working? My Alexa dient say anything…

Greetings

just installed and used - nearly perfect. I am searching a solution for matching caller to special alexas and not to play on same echo. Any1 has an idea to solve it?