Solved: how to get your VPE to prompt you to close an open garage door

Configuration Voice Assistant
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When I first read the blog post for 2025.4, I was inspired to get my VPE to prompt me to close an open garage door as was detailed in the post. It took me a while, but I finally got it to work.

My solution includes the use of alerts, notifications, scripts, automations and a custom component called NotiScript that allows you to call a script as a notification. Essentially, 5m after either of my garage doors is left open, I get a notification on my phone prompting me to close the door AND my VPE alerts me to the open door and prompts me to close it – we truly do live in the future!

My .yaml is found below. My only hope is that in the future we will not require the use of a cloud-based conversation agent to do this.

alert:
  inner_garage_door:
    name: Inner garage door open
    message: "Door has been open for {{ relative_time(states.cover.garage_door_inner.last_changed) }}"
    entity_id: cover.garage_door_inner
    state: 'open'
    repeat: 
      - 5
      - 10
      - 15
      - 30
      - 60
    can_acknowledge: true
    skip_first: true
    data:
      door: "inner"
    notifiers:
      - inner_garage_door_open
      - kitchen_voice_assistant_prompt
 
notify:
  - name: inner_garage_door_open
    platform: group
    services:
      - service: mobile_app_iphone
        data:
          title: 'Inner garage door open'
          data:
            tag: "inner_garage_door_open" # used for grouping
            actions:
              - title: "Close garage door"
                action: "CLOSE_INNER_GARAGE_DOOR"
                destructive: true
              - title: "Cancel further alerts"
                action: "CANCEL_INNER_GARAGE_DOOR_ALERT"
                
  - name: kitchen_voice_assistant_prompt
    platform: notiscript

    
script:
  kitchen_voice_assistant_prompt:
    sequence:
      - action: assist_satellite.start_conversation
        metadata: {}
        data_template:
          start_message: "The {{ data.door }} garage door has been open for {{ relative_time(states.cover.garage_door_outer.last_changed) }}. Would you like me to close it?"
          preannounce: true
          extra_system_prompt: >-
            The user has left a garage door open and is being asked if they would
            like to close it.
        target:
          entity_id: assist_satellite.kitchen_vpe_assist_satellite 
  

automation:
  - alias: iOS app notification inner garage door
    initial_state: True
    trigger:
      platform: event
      event_type: ios.notification_action_fired
      event_data:
        actionName: CLOSE_INNER_GARAGE_DOOR 
    action:
      service: cover.close_cover
      data: {}
      target:
        entity_id: cover.garage_door_inner
    
  - alias: iOS app cancel inner garage door alert
    trigger:
      platform: event
      event_type: ios.notification_action_fired
      event_data:
        actionName: CANCEL_INNER_GARAGE_DOOR_ALERT 
    action:
      service: alert.turn_off
      target:
        entity_id: alert.inner_garage_door
  
  - alias: iOS app clear notification inner garage door
    trigger:
      - entity_id: cover.garage_door_inner
        platform: state
        to: 'closed'
    action:
      - service: notify.mobile_app_shamuss_iphone
        data:
          message: "clear_notification"
          data:
            tag: "inner_garage_door_open"
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@Juggler , I am trying to do this as well. I have an automation that starts a conversation if either of my garage doors is open for 10 minutes. This works fine and my VPE tells me the door has been opened and ask me if I would liek to close it. It then appears to be listening, I respond with “Yes”, and then after a few seconds it says that the door has been successfully closed. But the garage door is still open.
Looking at your solution, I am trying to understand the requirement for the additional, alerts, scripts, notifications, etc. Also, it is still unclear to me how the kitchen_voice_assistant_prompt script knows which door to close?
I understand that the “data.door” variable is passing the door name to the start_message to announce it and start the conversation. But I do not understand how, if you answer “yes”, the system will know what device/entity should be closed.
Is it assumed that the LLM on the other end of this conversation will take the entire context of the conversation into consideration and send a response that will be interpreted by Assist’s intent engine to close that door/cover?