Limiting alexa access to specific Home Assistant entities only

Configuration
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I want alexa to only be able to see the light entities in my house. So I did this in configuration.yaml

alexa:
    filter:
      include_domains:
        - light

I restarted Home Assistant, but under Configuration > Cloud, alexa can still see all my entities.

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So I went to Amazon Alexa website and clicked on “Forget All Devices”. I restarted Home Assistant again, but under Configuration > Cloud, alexa can still see all my devices.

So I told alexa to “scan for new devices” and found 150 something devices. Even though in the configuration.yaml I only enabled the “light” domain.

I’m sure I’m not understanding something correctly, so can anyone please explain to me how do I limit alexa from seeing all my Home Assistant entities? I just want alexa to have access on the lights domain.

Thanks

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Have you ever used haaska?

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I haven’t, but seeing the installation & setup process, I would really prefer not to.

Home Assistant can’t filter alexa entities without using haaska?

4

ok, my mistake. Instead of creating the cloud.yaml file and configuring it there, I created an alexa.yaml

This is my cloud.yaml file

alexa:
 filter:
  include_domains:
   - light

and this is the result

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5

No, the opposite. If you’d bothered reading the post you would have seen that haaska can cache the devices and lead to filters not working.

6

Be nice tom, I did read the post and solved the issue. We’re all trying to help each other here.

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