Use built-in response in custom intent script

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Hello everyone,
I’m creating an intent script to handle a custom intent which is a variation of HassTurnOn, for the light domain and a specific area. After countless tests and much research, the only way I could make it work is like this:

# custom_sentences/en/lights.yaml

language: en
intents:
  HassTurnOn_LightBedroom:
    data:
      - sentences:
          # copied all sentences from the built-in intent, hard-coding the area name.
          # It would be nice to just "filter" on the area slot somehow, without copying everything,
          # but I couldn't make it work.
          - "<turn_on> [<all>] [<the>] <light> [(<of>|<in>)]bedroom"
          - "<turn_on> [<in>]bedroom [<all>] [<the>] <light>"
          - "[<in>]bedroom [<all>] [<the>] <light> <turn_on>"
          - "[<in>]bedroom <turn_on> [<all>] [<the>] <light>"
        slots:
          domain: light

# actual intent script code

intent_script:
  HassTurnOn_LightBedroom:
    action:
      - action: script.my_custom_script
    speech:
      text: "Turned on the light in bedroom"

I would like to return the built-in response text from the built-in HassTurnOn lights intent (this one, possibly referring to it by its key lights_area). I couldn’t find a way of doing it without maybe resorting to some Python code (accessing HA API).

Thanks!

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Look up requires_context then do it for area.

It will force the area of the resolved entity to be available in your response.

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Sorry I wasn’t clear enough about the area: the area is not a required context - it is provided in the sentence. What I wanted to do is to “filter” on the area, so the HA would call my intent_script instead of the default one - which I did. But when you override the intent_script you need to override the response too (because you can’t use response: in the intent definition) - therefore I’m not able to use the built-in responses.

In summary: I would like to override the behavior of the script only, but leave the built-in response.

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Yeah thag won’t happen you override a script you override all of it. You don’t get to pick and choose. You’re writing your own responses.