How to trigger Alexa routines from Home Assistant

[wmaker (Tommy Long)]

OK, got the binary sensor figure out…

The Haaska Super Thread

I figured it out (had to take a look at the smart_home.py code in HA). It has to figure out how to categorize a sensor (for Alexa) as CONTACT or MOTION sensor. It Looks at a sensor’s device class, and only looks at a limited number of device classes: if attrs.get(ATTR_DEVICE_CLASS) in ( 'door', 'garage_door', 'opening', 'window', ): return self.TYPE_CONTACT if attrs.get(ATTR_DEVICE_CLASS) == 'motion': return self.TYPE_MOTION My binary sensor was not …

Now I can’t get the Alexa routine to trigger.
The routine sees the binary sensor, and I can add the binary sensor to the routine and can set the state the routine is to look for (in my example to “open”). I can “play” the routine and see that it performs the action (saying “hello”).
When the binary sensor state changes in in HA, Alexa sees it change to “open”, but the routine is not triggered.

I have followed the steps best I can tell:

1. Enabled Send Alexa Events in my haaska skill; and relinked the skill on Alexa app.
2. Added to configuration.yaml the endpoint, client_id and client_secret (copied from “Send Alexa Events”)
   Not sure where else to look/do?