Input Select with Alexa

[lonebaggie]

Use a dummy bulb and you can have 99 responses

Create a virtual Dimmer or light template for Alexa

I have created lots of automation’s via the Alexa routines feature, which then switches input boolean components in HA to action the request. This is getting cumbersome using one input boolean for each routine. I would like to create a virtual dimmer in HA then expose this entity to Alexa. This would give me a 100 different responses via the dimmer, using just one entity, is this possible?

or use a switch template to trigger the input select

so for each “value” in your input_select create a switch template

value:
  value_template: >
    {% if is_state('< name of input select>','value') %}
      true
    {% else %}
      false
    {% endif %}
  turn_on:
	- service: input_select.select_option
      data:
      	entity_id:  <name of  input select>
        option: "value"  
  turn_off:

These switches will stay in sync with your input_select and can be called from Alexa. So if the input select is set to the first value only one switch template would be on the other switches would be off. If you turn a switch on it will change the input select and all the other switches would turn off.