Need help to have alert to send a notification to Alexa

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HI.
I have struggled with alerts, getting it to send a ntificationt when may garage doors have beenopen for a while. I have finally got it work with sending a notification to my phone. However, I would like it to send a notification to my Alexa speakers too.

I have no problem getting notifications to the alexa speakers when it happens in an automation, but I’m not able to do it an alert.

Here’s my code in alerts.yaml:

  garage_door:
    name: Garage is open
    done_message: Garage is closed
    entity_id: sensor.garagdedoor_position
    state: 'open'
    repeat: 5
    can_acknowledge: true
    skip_first: true
    notifiers:
      - mobile_app_sm_n950f

Here’s my code when sending a notification from automation:

  action:
  - service: notify.alexa_media
    data:
      target:
      - media_player.jorn_s_echo_show
      data:
        type: announce
      message: You got visitors
  - service: notify.mobile_app_sm_n950f
    data:
      message: You got visitors

Anybody out here that are able to help me adapt til to the alert routine?

Thanks in advance

2

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/combining-alerts-with-scripts-or-automations-for-tts-repeating-alerts/63414

3

@LordHayne
This has been added in 0.117.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/notify.tts/#:~:text=The%20notify%20TTS%20platform%20lets,in%20your%20automations%20and%20alerts.

4

yes , i know but i didn’t found a way to use it with the echo devices

5

You could also trigger on the alert.xxx entity changing state to on and then send the notification to the alexa device.

6

Thanks for your input. While I didn’t get the alert to work with Alexa, I solved it a little different. I made an automation and a script that solved the problem. I will later make the script more generic with arguments. Then I don’t need to make a new for each automation test I’ll do.

  alias: Garagedoor is open
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: sensor.garagdedoor_position
    to: open
    for: "00:001:00"
  condition: []
  action:
  - service: script.alexa_announcement
    data: {}
  mode: single

The script is as following:

alexa_announcement:
  alias: Anounce a message
  sequence:
    repeat:
      while:
        - condition: state
          entity_id: 'sensor.garagdedoor_position'
          state: 'open'
      sequence:      
        - delay:
            minutes: 5
        - service: notify.alexa_media
          data:
            target:
              - media_player.jorn_s_echo_show
            data:
              type: announce
            message: The garagedoor is left open
    ```
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