I am stuck at the moment. I have a script that turns off music playing throughout my house. I have it linked up with the amazon echo with the keyword “Sonos”. If i say “Alexa turn on sonos”, it runs the script just fine, however when i say “turn OFF”, alexa tells me that sonos doesn’t support that. Is there a simple way to toggle the script so i can run the script by saying OFF instead of ON? If not, what would be the easiest way to implement this? With how powerful HASS is i feel like i am missing something extremely simple!
You can use Alexa routines to accomplish this.
If you must use homeassistant perhaps a template switch with the off action to run your script. Default the switch to on.
Emulated_hue has off_maps_to_on for this exact purpose. No idea if such a thing exists with any of the other methods for integrating Alexa.
I tried the routines and it seems to work! I would rather have everything centrally configured though, so once i figure out the switch template i will move it over. Thanks!
After doing a bit of searching it doesn’t seem like this exists for the Echo :(, thanks for the help though!
Emulated hue is for echo, that’s what it’s for.
I was entirely not aware of this, after a quick scroll through the page it seems like it is more efficient, i might actually swap over!
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