Just went through the Alexa Smart Home setup and got stuck a "discover Devices"

[petro]

As for ssl, are you using DuckDns? If so, you need to port forward 443 external to 8123 internal on your HomeAssistant ip address.

[Deten]

By entities, do you mean known devices?

If I delete known devices and let it repopulate could that help?

Is there anything besides media_player that interferes? If so I will check that, but I have no media players in my known entities.

I used DuckDNS but I set up everything through 8443 instead of 443 to keep 443 open.

[petro]

@Deten

By entities, do you mean known devices?

I mean entities. This would be seen/filtered from the home assistant side.

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘known devices’ . Do you mean the devices on alexa’s side?

@Deten

Is there anything besides media_player that interferes? If so I will check that, but I have no media players in my known entities.

Not that i know of.

@Deten

I used DuckDNS but I set up everything through 8443 instead of 443 to keep 443 open.

Are you putting the port in everything for the alexa configuration?

[Deten]

@petro

I mean entities. This would be seen/filtered from the home assistant side.

Ahh thanks for the clarification. I have two showing up, my samsung tv and my nvidia shield. Can I disable them somehow to see if that fixes it?

@petro

Are you putting the port in everything for the alexa configuration?

Yes, and it works fine from the “test” code.

[petro]

@Deten

Ahh thanks for the clarification. I have two showing up, my samsung tv and my nvidia shield. Can I disable them somehow to see if that fixes it?

Yeah, try that. from what I’ve seen media_players are the only issue at the moment. And it’s not all media players with the issue.

[Deten]

Whats the best process to disable them?

[Deten]

Trying to find out what methods to disable media player would work.

I tried disabling from the front end but that didnt do the job.

[petro]

Disable them through the configuration I posted before with the include/exclude entities.

Just went through the Alexa Smart Home setup and got stuck a "discover Devices"

It’s seeing devices. That first endpoint is one. So it should be working now. BUUUUUUUUT If you have media_players, they may make the discovery fail. So remove them from configuration. Here’s what my configuration looks like and you can use it as a guide. Basically list out what you want to send to alexa in include_entities. Then give them special unique ‘Alexa only’ names in the entity_config section alexa: smart_home: filter: include_entities: - fan.bonus_room_bedr…

[krinehart]

If that doesn’t work for you check what region your lamba function is in. I had the exact same experience in the Oregon region but when I recreated in the Virginia region everything worked great.

[Deten]

I am oregon. I will try changing to virginia… is that just a swap or do I have to recreate everything?

[krinehart]

There was no move option for me but I’m not a big AWS guy. I had to recreate everything in the new region.

[Deten]

FFFFfffffjuuuuuuu

That totally worked. Switched to Viginia (from Oregon). Copied and pasted everything over. Discovered devices. Boom.

Thank you to BOTH @krinehart & @petro for spending so much time trying to help me out.

[krinehart]

Nice! Glad it worked.

[Bartem]

So after accidentally discovering 750+ devices due to what I believe was incorrect spacing on my exclude filter… I am nervous to run discover devices again… is there a way to verify what entities are exposed before-hand similar to api/pi/lights or whatever it is for emulated hue?

[petro]

Good question… Not sure. I’ll have to dig into that.

[Bartem]

So apparently something is still not right with my filter… it just discovered all my devices/entities again… is there something I am doing wrong here?

smart_home:
  locale: en-US
  endpoint: https://api.amazonalexa.com/v3/events
  client_id: ##############
  client_secret: #################
  filter:
    include_entities:
      - binary_sensor.multisensor_motion
      - binary_sensor.front_door
      - binary_sensor.side_door
      - binary_sensor.garage_door
    exclude_domains:
      - alarm_control_panel
      - alert
      - automation
      - binary_sensor
      - camera
      - climate
      - cover
      - fan
      - group
      - input_boolean
      - input_number
      - image_processing
      - light
      - lock
      - media_player
      - scene
      - script
      - sensor
      - switch
      - timer
      - vacuum

EDIT: Edited to correct indentation to prevent someone from copying the wrong one…

[Bartem]

There are actually instructions for a test I must have missed on the page… but now I am concerned the “test” may actually discovery devices as I am still unsure what is wrong with my filter…

“Test the Lambda function”

Amazon Alexa Smart Home Skill

[Bartem]

So I was definitely able to test it with the Lambda test function mentioned in the docs, but had to set DEBUG=true in the environment variables or it just gave a 401 error… so it listed ALL of my devices still… filter still not working
I had my “alexa:” config as an !include in my configuration.yaml… moved it directly to my configuration.yaml and now the filter is working!!

[petro]

That means the configuration was incorrect inside your include. Here’s what I have:

configuration.yaml

alexa: !include alexa.yaml

alexa.yaml

  smart_home:
    filter:
      include_entities:
        - fan.bonus_room_bedroom
        ... etc ...
    entity_config:
      fan.bonus_room_bedroom:
        name: Bonusroom Fan
      ... etc ...

My guess is that your spacing was off at the smart_home level.

[Bartem]

So I needed to indent the whole include probably and didn’t? (I will look at what I had when I get back in the house) I just assumed that because the first few lines were working that the whole thing was correct…