yeah it is possible to create a routine in the alexa app for a switch, and then you can create a switch that triggers the routine. and that switch can be put on the dashboard.
its possible, but not easy.
I have an echo plus and since getting this I am no longer able to use HA to turn my lights on and off as they are ZigBee connected to the echo. Would this allow me to configure it somehow to enable it so use my lights again? I’m not looking for status of the lights just a way to turn them on or off through HA
why cant you connect your zigbee to HA directly?
but like i said everything you can control with alexa you also can control with HA by creating routines and starting these routines from HA.
i would advise the local script to do this though.
Thats what i tought… I am new at this so i think it will still take me a while…and some numbers off trying… I cant connect the zigbee switches directly with hassio because zigbee isn’t compatibel for now… And i also would like to kerp using their app so i have to use their gateway… Now i have been trying to set up this bespoken.io connection with Alexa , and in the bespoken app i can switch the light on , but in hassio i didnt manage yet… I tried with the example of setting a timer but didnt work… I guess you mean another way off connecting with Alexa in stead of bespoken.io?
i did a quick look and didnt find any api for bespoken, besides for tts.
the link i gave is to a topic where there is a script that can be used.
it has a downside, you need to refresh a cookie file once in a while.
and most people with hassio seem to have trouble with it.
to know if it is something you want to use, you need to read through that long (and mostly boring) topic.
I’m using a raspberry pi running home assistant and there is no way to my knowledge that you can connect the ZigBee lights to HA without a usb ZigBee adaptor which I don’t have.
I will give this a try I have loads of routines set up at the moment so would be nice for HA to control them as well
Excellent, does exactly what i want. i set it up as above and ran the service with the follow json: {
“message”: “turn my room off”} and a few seconds later my room light went off. Exactly what i need thanks for this!
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@ha_steve had a brief read of this and looks good, however I am confused as to how you would send this to a specific echo device or all.
for example if you trigger music to play how do you get it to play in the bedroom rather than the living room ???
Sorry for the newbie questions but I’m just confused as to how a virtual alexa will do this ?
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@ReneTode is it possible to use alexa with intents? I have ha cloud but I cannot use intents anymore. The closest thing I have come across is scenes. HA scripts are of course seen as scenes by alexa but its a little tedious saying to alexa to turn on clean my room as an example. I would normally say alexa ask home assistant to clean my room. This would then start the vacuum to clean the room.
Any ideas?
those 2 things should be able to work side by side.
the easiest way to correct that is to use alexa routines.
create a routine that turns on the script when you say something like: alexa, clean my room
you dont even need to say “ask home assistant to” in that case.
Intents do not work due to the new HA authorization method i.e. tokens. If you have done it can you please show me how to?
Thank you for pointing out. However I need to be careful and say the exact phrase i.e. alexa, clean my room. Whereas with intents I could say more. clean my room or hoover my room etc.
if you want intents to work you need to have api pasword (old style) set.
i havent read that they took it out (its deprecated though)
http:
api_password: !secret http_password
i dont have intents with HA directly though, i got my intents through appdaemon.
This is what i said they dont work using the new token method.
Anyway your intents intents using appdaemon works using tokens ? If yes can you please share it?
they dont work with tokens, but you can have tokens and http api key both!
i have appdaemon setup with appdaemon api, my intents communicate with an appdaemon app, not with home assistant, and then in the app i can read things from HA and send things to HA.
i have my appdaemon alexa app on github, but its only usefull if you are able to read python code and know how to change it to your wishes.
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@ha_steve, how would I set this up for when alexa expects a response.
I tested the mychevy app skill from the web site and it worked but Im not sure how I would write the automation.
normally I would say: “Alexa, ask chevy to start my car” then she would ask for my pin: " 1 2 3 4 " and then she would send the request.
Do you know if this is correct? probably not since it doesn’t work lol.
- id: start_my_car
alias: Start My Car
initial_state: 'off'
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.car
to: 'on'
action:
- service: rest_command.ask_alexa
data:
message: "Ask chevy to start my car"
- service: rest_command.ask_alexa
data:
message: "1 2 3 4"
- delay: '00:00:20'
- service: homeassistant.turn_off
entity_id: input_boolean.car
- id: start_my_car_off
alias: Start My Car Off
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.car
to: 'off'
action:
- service: homeassistant.turn_off
entity_id: automation.start_my_carJust created a bespoken-account. Just wondering, since i haven’t read anything about that on this thread: it says " Current plan: Standard - Only 30 days left. Subscribe now!" … and the cheapest plan seems a $29/month plan?
Unfortunately, ““The trial period for your virtual device has expired. Please visit https://bespoken.io/testing/ to learn about our pricing or send us an email at [email protected] to request an extension of your trial period.”” 
i never got it working, and im not paying 29 a month for service
is there any alternative to bespoken?
EDIT: It seems like we might be able to use it for free if we host the CLI ourselves. I may try and find or create a docker container for this purpose.
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