Red Alert -> Sensor -> Alexa

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Hi, past couple of days we are getting quite the bombardment of missiles from our neighbors to the south… Our Home Front Command has an API that returns a JSON that includes all the “Red Alert” alarms going off around the country. Some has actually wrote a python script that checks for alarms in your area. As hopefully this situation is very temporary and not wanting to take the time to write a full component - is there a simple way with Node Red possibly or Pyscript to run this script and then based on its output update a sensor or just output directly to Alexa or something like that?

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Hi there,
I found this across the internet. It’s a sensor that pulls it’s information from the Home Front Command.
Didn’t try it myself but it seems to be working

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yup that works like a charm!

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I know this is an old post, but bumping it with what I did.

There is a new integration for Oref GitHub - amitfin/oref_alert: Israeli Oref Alerts

I set that up and then created the following automation to announce alerts on Alexa, using Alexa Media Player addon (GitHub - alandtse/alexa_media_player: This is a custom component to allow control of Amazon Alexa devices in Home Assistant using the unofficial Alexa API.)

In configuration.yaml, defined a “notify” group:

notify:
  - name: echo_show_group
    platform: alexa_media
    target:
      - "media_player.echo.xxxxxxxx"
      - "media_player.echo.xxxxxxxx"

Then added an automation to trigger when Oref sensor changes to “Unsafe”
This is the YAML of my automation:

alias: Tzeva Adom
description: Alerts to Alexa when Missile Alert
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.oref_alert
    from: "off"
    to: "on"
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.echo_show_group
    data:
      message: >-
        RED ALERT. Get to the shelter. RED ALERT. Get to the shelter. RED ALERT.
        Get to the shelter.
      target:
        - media_player.xxxxxxxx
        - media_player.xxxxxxxx
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