How to trigger Alexa routines from Home Assistant

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I’m having similar problems. Using Nabu Casa Cloud to talk to Alexa. Alexa sees and controls my exposed devices perfectly (“Alexa, turn on the lights”). Now want to trigger a routine.

Created an input boolean and exported it to alexa as a contact sensor:

alexa:
  filter:
    include_entities:
     - input_boolean.cat_feeder_alert_go
  entity_config:
    input_boolean.cat_feeder_alert_go:
      name: Cat Feeder alert
      display_categories: CONTACT_SENSOR

(only relevant portions left in)

Added to Alexa. On the “all devices” screen in the Alexa iOS App, the sensor is there, and responds to changes in HA, although on its detail screen it displays a “There was a problem” banner. Nonetheless, it works.

There are probably 20-30 other devices visible under “all devices”.

However, when I go to create a routine, on the “When this Happens” -> “Smart Home”, I get “No devices found. To start a routine with a smart home device, add one in the Devices section of the Alexa app.” Absolutely no devices show up here at all.

The devices is also visible in the Alexa web app, but the web app doesn’t have routines…

Anyone have any ideas?

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