Ok. Today, I finally got living scenes to work with home assistant!
It’s a bit tricky, but with an amazon echo unit and a script from lötzimmer (https://blog.loetzimmer.de/2017/10/amazon-alexa-hort-auf-die-shell-echo.html) you will be able to trigger it.
You need to configure the living scene in the hue app with a virtual button, so that you can find the scene in the alexa app (with the installed hue skill).
Then you install the alexa_remote_control.sh script from loetzimmer in your home assistant config/ folder and configure these entries:
SECRETS_YAML=
LANGUAGE=
AMAZON=
ALEXA=
Here is some info to configure it with hassio: Running alexa_remote_control.sh inside Hass.io
After you have successfully installed the script you cannot just have alexa speak out anything you like and put out every data you like from home assistant, you can also start tunein radio stations, weather reports, traffic info, and much more on your echo unit. And finally you can start Alexa routines!
So you configure a routine which starts the living scene and then you configure home assistant to tell Alexa to starts your living scene routine. (Who said it has to be difficult? :P)
Here’s an example:
[configuration.yaml]
shell_command:
alexa_speak: /config/alexa_remote_control.sh -d “my Echo” -e speak:"{{text}}"
alexa_routine: /config/alexa_remote_control.sh -d “my Echo” -e automation:"{{text}}"
[scripts.yaml]
alexa_script:
sequence:
- service: shell_command.alexa_speak
data_template:
text: ‘Starting your living scene.’ - service: shell_command.alexa_routine
data_template:
text: ‘’
I hope someone has some use for it. It took me quite a while to connect all these dots together.
Have fun! 