Use Node Red to send notifications to the last called Alexa

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I have Alexa Media Player installed and working great. In Node Red I have my flows I want working and sending notifications/announcements to specific Alexa’s using, Call Service, Notify and then the specific Alexa. I also have a sensor set up in Home Assistant that gives me the last called Alexa.

I would like to send the notifications/announcements to the last called Alexa from the sensor, rather then specific Alexa’s in Node Red.

I’ve started to test with a simple inject that gets the current state of my sensor.last_alexa and sends the payload to a debug node. That all works fine and gives me the name of the last called Alexa, what I don’t know how to do is use that payload in the call service node I use to send announcements.

I’m sure this is a simple answer and I tried searching, but wasn’t sure exactly how to word my searches and came up empty. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Since you already have the payload with the latest alexa called. Just pass it to a node like this.

[{"id":"25da7361.46c6dc","type":"api-call-service","z":"8fac164d.889228","name":"Alexa Alert","server":"d177950.2a5aa68","version":1,"debugenabled":false,"service_domain":"notify","service":"alexa_media","entityId":"","data":"{\"message\":\"message\",\"data\":{\"type\":\"announce\",\"method\":\"all\"},\"target\":[\"{{payload}}\"]}","dataType":"json","mergecontext":"","output_location":"","output_location_type":"none","mustacheAltTags":false,"x":1950,"y":699,"wires":[[]]},{"id":"d177950.2a5aa68","type":"server","name":"Home Assistant","legacy":false,"rejectUnauthorizedCerts":true,"ha_boolean":"y|yes|true|on|home|open","connectionDelay":true,"cacheJson":true}]

Here i have made the a notify alexa media service with the payload as the target device.

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Thank you! It worked perfectly! I appreciate the help.