Unable to customize for Alexa

Installation Home Assistant OS
1

I’ve been able to control some entities using Alexa via Nabu Casa. All pretty straight forward and super cool…

However, I want to customise the name of the entities as they are a bit weird. However, this is not working. Here’s what I see:

Every time I try to create a custom name for an Entity, I see the following error…

It seems that your configuration.yaml doesn’t properly include customize.yaml
Changes made here won’t affect your configuration.

However, the string is saved to customize.yaml and the text in the dashboard is updated as expected and Alexa doesn’t respond to the custom name.

2

You can go to your cloud: configuration section and change the name used in your Alexa app.

  cloud:
    entity_config:
      input_boolean.bool_8:
        name: Sunroom Fan
        description: The input boolean to turn off the sunroom fan
3

Thanks. I’m not quite clear on the syntax here…

If I have a default name of

soundtouch_kitchen
but I want Alexa to know it as
Kitchen_Radio

What would the syntax in configuration.yaml be?

4

Assduming your device is a switch and the entity_id is ‘switch.soundtouch_kitchen’ then"

  cloud:
    entity_config:
      switch.soundtouch_kitchen:
        name: Kitchen Radio
        description: whatever you want here

then in your alexa app you will see a switch called ‘Kitchen Radio’.

5

That’s giving me an error when I Check Config

Invalid config for [cloud]: [entity_config] is an invalid option for [cloud]. Check: cloud->cloud->entity_config. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 74). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/cloud/

6

Sorry, I forgot a line:

cloud:
  alexa:
    entity_config:
      switch.soundtouch_kitchen:
        name: Kitchen Radio
        description: whatever you want here