Script.turn_on service runs all scripts, any way to disable this?

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Hi,

Just installed Alexa with my set up, I have a lot of scripts that do different things around the house.

The problem I’m facing is, Alexa decides to run some service called script.turn_on whenever it doesn’t know what to do,

for example, it thought I said “Turn on the freezer”, so it decided to run that generic script.turn_on script, which in turn ran all the scripts I have set up, causing havoc around the house (locks opened and closed, lights turned on and off, etc…)

This seems like a built-in script for controlling multiple scripts, is there a way to exclude scripts from that generic script? Or just disable this altogether?

Thanks in advance!

2

If you have a script named example there are two ways to execute it:

  - service: script.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: script.example

or

  - service: script.example

Are you saying you have a script whose name is turn_on?

3

No, I have multiple scripts such as:

script.turn_on_tv
script.turn_on_logitech
script.enable_game_mode
....

Which all get triggered when Alexa invokes this generic script.turn_on

4

script.turn_on is a service call, not a script. Normally you explicitly specify which script(s) the service call should turn on.

  - service: script.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: 
        - script.example
        - script.something
        - script.other

Are you saying that if no scripts are specified that the script.turn_on service call will default to executing all scripts?

NOTE

I just tested this in Developer Tools > Services and it doesn’t execute all scripts.

service: script.turn_on
data: {}
target:
  entity_id:
5

That’s what it seems to be doing, this is an example in the logbook:

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6

See my previous post; calling the script.turn_on service call without specifying any script will not execute all scripts.

7

Thanks for the tip, tested this call in dev options and it does not execute all scripts indeed.

Could Alexa be calling script.turn_on on all entities then? (attached screenshot for multiple devices being triggered at the same time by this service script.turn_on

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8

Some findings:

Currently I have my “script switches” under a room called “SYSTEM” in Alexa. Seems when I call the “Turn on the freezer” it probably guesses that this “freezer SYSTEM” needs to be turned on, so turns on all the switches in that SYSTEM room.

Is there a proper way to protect these switches from turning on from Alexa’s smart AI?

9

I can’t answer you latest question because I don’t have Alexa connected in the manner that you do.