ALEXA ACTIONABLE NOTIFICATIONS (Home Assistant + Alexa Skill)
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Have you ever wanted Alexa to prompt you and ask you a question? Well now you can! In this video we are setting up Alexa Actionable Notifications for Alexa with Home Assistant. We will be creating an Alexa skill and running through everything you will need to get this working.
By the end of this video you should be able to put together automations that Alexa will prompt you to run.
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0:00 - Intro
0:17 - Todays Video
0:52 - What is an Alexa Actionable Notification
2:44 - What do we need?
3:33 - ADD THIS! (Config.yaml or wherever you store input text)
3:50 - Creating the Alexa Skill
9:35 - Recap of what is needed for the Account Linking config
10:40 - Code Setup
14:17 - Linking Skill with Alexa App
15:29 - Creating Actionable Notifications
17:18 - Testing the Helper Script (Dev Tools)
21:39 - Live Demo
23:54 - GitHub Examples
24:02 - Node Red Flows
24:11 - Summaries what we did
24:43 - Final breakdown of how it works
25:34 - Future videos
26:02 - End notes and Outro
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Hi mark is there any chance you could do an updated video of this as a lot of things have changed in Alexa development site. Just can’t get it to work😢.. regards
I have the same problem, but it looks like hes not making viedos in general anymore
We need you mark. Helpp
Thanks again Matt😂 for this video. It got me started but took a little more time to tinker around the settings to get it right for my location - AU.
For anyone who might still be stuck one thing that got it working for me was when creating the skill, under the 'Primary Locale', you might need to play around with the different country options. I’m in AU but had to select GB for it to work, and also toggle the 'Sync locales' option. I had to do this 2 separate times before everything worked properly. The first time i did it for some reason it worked but only if i switched my alexa device language setting to 'India'.
Great! Love how detailed are the steps for the tutorials! Cheers from Puerto Rico!
Yes please make a advanced video as well , will be surely incorporating into my setup
Great video Mark! Thank you once again
Great video! I have two Alexa devices in the same room, a TV and a dot. Wanted a reminder to drink water to kick off on both devices but it was only triggering on one. I added a 5 second delay in between service calls and it's now able to relay the message to both devices.
Thanks again. I am so happy now I have so much working now after going through your step by step.
This is awesome. Thank you Mark.
Great video, i've been waiting for this video for some time now, thank you. 👍👍
Thanks for the great tutorial as always, Mark. One thing to note, I've had success with the Wait for Trigger action. I keep the trigger and response to a single automation.
Great video would love to see the advanced features
Thanks a lot!! Waiting for your vídeo about image identification with your reolink camera in home assistant! Cheers
Very clear and easy to follow instructions, Great job Mark. Looking forward for more videos
Thank you for the feedback :)
@@MarkWattTech I am a newbie to home assistant and what I did so far is by following your videos :)
@@ajithprabhakar awesome! Welcome to the rabbit hole that is Home Assistant!
Plenty more videos to come!
Great tutorial Mark, thanks. Just FYI, I have set this up, works great. But it only works with 1st party Alexa devices, I can't get the Alexa enabled Sonos speakers to trigger.
Great tutorial, thank you!
Great video, love your work.
Thank you 😄👊🏻
Great Walk through , this approach yields more value from smart home setup..
Thank you :)
Not a Nabu Casa or Duck DNS user, really prefer totally local approaches to most everything, however, still a great video, thanks for all you do Mark!
Would love a video on how to do without cloud access!!
yesss please...
Works wonderfully!! Be sure when you create the new files with amazon developer to leave the lambda file path I deleted it by accident and it wouldn't work.
I love to see how trigger routine and scripts on the home assistant using Alexa voice command. Great video by the way, it works as you said.
Those parts will be in my next Alexa tutorial 😁
Another nice video :)
great videoo!! thanks fot time for we!
Amazing Video....very fun stuff ... gotta watch closely for typos but man is this cool...
Is it totally independent from the alexa integration using lamdba, or is it possible to reunite both skills ? I'm not using nabu cada cloud like you are, so just wondering.
Great video, so much helpful!
Its been a while since I am following you without subbing. I don't know why I haven't subbed before but I did. thank you for the video, I just want to say never change the face expression you have when you are talking in front of camera. It emits positive energy.
Great detailed explaination thank you. But on the Account Linking the URI auth and token shows my home assistant example. what should i type in there if I am using Hubitat? Thank you. I can't wait to continue the setup!
Hi, great video. Did you ever post a follow on showing how to do this without the remote access ?
If you could do a walk through of the node red examples that would be fantastic! Great video by the way.
I’ll be sure to cover it in my newer videos :)
Mark, good job man! These days I saw something about alexa-cookbook, but I have no idea how to implement it in Home Assistant to get Alexa shopping list. How is it possible? It would be a good video!
Hi Mark, thank you for youre great video. It worked perfect. And i am doing now my automations. But one question. Are these actionable Notifications are possible with the HA Assist too?
This is awesome! if I want to do the same but with lambda function instead of Home Assistant? what do I need?
new to HA, love your vids.
i followed your first alexa integration vid to a T, but I'm having trouble with this one i powered thru till the end, but i am not sure where i should be pasting the code to test the new skill. Is there an add on i need?
Nice, I would like to know how setup the notifications without ducdns or nabu casa, I cannot open ports in my router.
I had an error saying 'There was a problem with the requested skill's response'. This was caused as I did not put the port in the home assistant URL (in the tools > account linking page). Works great now :)
what do you mean by not put the port in. Per the guild port should not be input it in.? You should able to access HA without need to enter port.
Hahaha!!! So amazing! I love it 😆.
Again.. Crystal clear explanation!
You are THE Man!
Thanks!
I'm french Canadian.
I Pick Up the "us" link and change "en" by "fr" in language_strings.json and it work perfectly!..
I've got a warning message from Alexa developer page.. hmm "utterance conflict".. someone have an Idea of what IT is?
Anyways, I'm all in for advanced video!! With your Room assistant tutorials.. It's gonna be.. Dynamite!!
Surrelly Do the automation to ask if I want to turn the light off When nobody is in the Room. Simple and effective.
Same for the shades, in summer/winter to save electricity.
Surrelly try to get automation base on custom response like.. choose between different mood (for party.. music and Lights).
And a simple question to start vacuum robot 'cause we dont want to schedule it (cat issue)
So.. a lot of fun here!
Thanks again Master!
Where are you from Mark? Your English is super clear and easy for me to understand
I was born in England but lived in Wales all my life 🏴
Great video, yes please do a video on the more advanced actions. Thanks
What would you like to see in the advanced version? :)
@@MarkWattTech What I would really like to see (if possible) is to ask Alexa a question, which triggers an automation that then uses the TTS to "respond" with the answer. In my home I have a list of chores for the kids that rotate on a weekly basis, I have Home Assistant update sensors for each childs chore for the week, I use the TTS from Home Assistant to announce the chores in the morning, but it would be really cool if the kids could say "Alexa what are the chores for this week" and it runs the automation.
@@DerekWalker55 I am storyboarding my ideas for the advanced options now so will
Make a note of this. You can do this yes :) you just have a script call which calls your tts service :)
You can do this without actionable notifications too. You can just have a script that announces your your set TTS then use a template to grab the name of the child whos turn it is. The echo will then say “its xxx turn to do chores”. I do something similar with asking the echo what the temp of specific raspberry pis are.
@@MarkWattTech I'd really like you to cover something similar in my case. I have a cat flap which is intergrated with HA. I'd like to ask Alexa 'Where is Bailey or Bella?' and she responds with 'Bailey/Bella is inside/outside'
Any help on this would be great!
Thanks I got it working. More on the advanced features would be great. Like, she ask me if I would like the airco on if the temperature is above value. Now if I say yes, she then ask how many degrees. So a second question on the response off the first question.
What would you like to see in a more advanced version? :)
@@MarkWattTech Sorry for my English. More on the advanced features like follow up questions ( It’s. cold, shall I make it warmer? Yes. How many degrees? 2. oké) When there is not enough light in a room that I enter. ( Shall I put on the light? Yes. How long? 2 minutes. Oké).
So examples with ResponseNumeric. And ResponseSelect. How can I change Netflix, Hulu, RUclips in different wordt, and how many different words can I put in the slot type. I tried that but could not getting it too work. Perhaps an example. Thanks
Hey Mark: Help us that many of us having same issue with ResponseNone not triggering for EchoShow 8. It's working fine with Echo Dot or older Echo speakers.
Thank you sooo much I have so many Ideas on this. Please give us a more advances video on this.
I do plan on revisiting this in my rebooted Alexa series :)
@@MarkWattTech Pleaaaaase Mark, we are still waiting u to actualise this video. Please please please
Thanks for the great video. Is this possible for Google Home?
Ive not had a look into it for Google Home. I would imagine there is something available though.
This is lovely! Is the same possible with Google Assistant?
Currently it’s not (that I’m aware of anyway). But it would be great if it was!
Brilliant tutorial thanks this will annoy my whole (non techy) family! :) I have been playing with it all day. do you know if there is anyway to tell which device answered the script? if I broadcast it to a group i want a reply to goto the device which answered
Hey Chris. If you check out the documentation you will find a section on “sensor last”. You can then use this in a template etc to have the last spoken to echo play/say something :)
Edit : Heres the link :)
github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/wiki#creating-sensorlast_alexa
Would love to know where you found those node-red flows.
Thanks Mark, followed to the end, but now getting 404: Not Found when linking skill? Any ideas?
Hey Mark! Great video as usual. However I have tried to implement this AT LEAST 5 times without success. There seems to be a real problem if you are outside UK/US. I'm in Austria running my Alexa's in German and English.
Keaton Taylor mentions this, but doesn't clearly explain how it can be fixed, certainly not for newbies. I really think you should flag this up at the start of the video to save everyone a lot of time.
Great video Mark! Do you know if there's something similar for google home? I did not find anything.
Thank you :)
I haven’t had a look as the majority of my speakers are all Alexa enabled.
I think anyone wanting to get the best smart home experience should use both Alexa and Google. since they both have their pros and cons. As someone who uses both I can say with confidence that both have their own uses.
Sorry I know it's been quite a whiile since you posted but have you changed your mind about using both systems? If not, what can Google home provide that Alexa can't, thanks.
thanks for the video
very helpful indeed
how do i download the node red examples for alexa actionable notifications?
Sorry for the delay! You need to add the node red pallet :) there is a link for it in the documentation.
Mark,
early in the video you mentioned that you had settings for DuckDNS instead of nabu casa. I have tried various configuration attempts but can not get authentication to pass. Any suggestions?
Great video! Can you do the same thing with google home instead of alexa?
This is great! Been waiting for it! Two questions - first, you said there's an "offline" version of this? Can you give us more information on that? Second - I don't see the Node Red flows anywhere... what am I missing? Thanks Mark!! Great work.
Hey James. So the first question, the “offline version”, what I mean by this is just not using the home assistant cloud or other services. This would use your HA token and different echo settings. I think the way its done in the video is the better more secure way though.
Secondly the node red stuff can be found at :
github.com/keatontaylor/alexa-actions/wiki/Examples (1st option Comprehensive flow). You then just need to import that flow.
Gimme a shout if you need any further help / clarification.
@@MarkWattTech Perfect! Thanks again.
@@MarkWattTech Well. Worked when I went to bed. Doesn't work this morning! No idea. Amazon logs show no recent activity but invoking the script in NR or Developer Tools does nothing. Acts like it fires but Alexa says nothing. :( Alexa Media Player working fine, and I am confused.
aaand now suddenly it works again. So weird.
@@MarkWattTech I followed your video and it worked fine for 1 day , then it stopped working, so I deleted the skill and start again from scratch, and now the Echo says what I type on my HA but it never initiates the conversation byitself, I have to tell it " alexa open custom actions" and then it works. I'm not using nabu casa , I'm using it with a long live token.
Hello Mark love your videos and always nice to learn something new. I have a problem with the activation of the skill in the Alexa app i see the created skill but when I log into my Home assistant does it fail and says try again. could it be that the 2fa is enable on my HA ? maybe question into the round does someone have 2FA enabled and is able to add the skill through the Alexa app ?
Looking forward to a similar content that doesn't need public access to home assistant
It is possible to do it. If enough people are interested I will do a video :)
@@MarkWattTech I guess there are thousands of them like me for example.
Very nice video, I have a question on the motion detection sensor from Echo, my echo doesn't expose this sensor (or temperature sensor) to home assistant, after using Alexa Media Player integration I can only have Sensors (Next Alarm, Next Reminder, Next Timer) any advice on how to expose motion detection presence sensor from Excho devices to home assistant, I'm using duckdns and SSL not Nabu Casa
Will this work with the current ha in may 2022
HI matt, I followed your instructions to a tee, but when I finish on developer panel and say open custom actions I get a msg that says custom notification needs to be linked in task unify. I am at kind of a loss.. any thoughts?
Hi mark thanks for this splendid video, but despite having done all the steps exactly the momsi skill connects to my account assistant, precisely it tells me: at the moment it is not possible to connect the skill.
I am in Italy and I have external access but with port: 8123, following the guide it says to use the long-lasting token so I created one and entered it I use ssl I left true with duckdns.
Where am I wrong?
Hey Mark, great video. When is the node red version coming out? I have got the flow working to send the question to Alexa. But can see the event being fired?
Actually just found it! Very nice with the response type. yes no and number..
Glad you sorted it 😃
Does it works with other languages?
I’m new to this stuff. When there’s a comment about ‘linked in the description below’ or ‘copy’ etc, am I missing something on the RUclips page or is this a function of a ‘subscription’, if so what level.
Hi! any idea to use in more than 1 speaker at the same time? Im not able to use in more than one.. looks like when 1 speaker is waiting for the response.. There other are not connected. Thanks!
Hello, great video. I have an issue, creating the skill went ok and the first script in the configuration.yaml "Alexa open customs action works ok", after that I place your script in the scripts.yaml reload the scripts did the small code in call service to test, changed the alexa_device to mine. Nothing happens. Do you have an idea why, please ?
Maybe I should mention im using duckdns.
Could you turn this into one automation by using the choose and wait options?
You could yeah. Anywhere you can utilise a script or automation, you can use it :)
Thanks for the great tutorial , but is this is still working because in last step in alexa app i can't link it
Is there a way to get these actionable notifications with a google nest speaker?
Nice! Are actionable notifications possible without home assistant?
Please say this is possible!?
@@michaelcorner432 we will have to see if Mr. @Mark Watt Tech replies. I sure hope it is even if it needs to be created through a custom skill still
The token is needed to link the skills with HA.!
Ohhh this is lovely! Didnt think of this earlier... Would love to see a google home version... I dont have alexa here. Willing to do so? Is it even possible?
Not 100% for Google. I have a few Google devices in boxes whilst I wait to move. But expect some Tutorials for them when I do! :)
@@MarkWattTech Cool thanks !
@Mark Watt Tech, any updates on this for google?
Helo, i just wanna know how we can set up the constant volume of amazon alexa speaker during triggering of automation. Because if we decrease the volume into 30%. When the automation triggered, the volume will not increase... Its annoying we cannot hear if there's an emergency.
Thanks Matt. So could this work with Amazon delivery notifications. Could it just ask me if I want to clear my notification when there is a notification available. It gets old telling Alexa to clear my notifications and then it just goes and prompts with “do you want to clear your notifications” and I’m of course wanting to clear it or I would not have said it to do so the first time. So annoying. Would it work on that?
+1 for this, I hate it, anything to make her delete all notification sin one hit would be great. I bicker and argue with Alexa more than anyone else! I despise her LOL
sorry I configured everything as per the guide m acontinues to tell me, A problem occurred with the response of the requested Skill. Do you know what it could be ?
love the guide. i cant complete it since 443 cant authenticate to my home assistant only 8123. and apparently amazon requires 443
You can set a NAT/portforward on your firewall to listen for port 443 and then pass it as 8123 to the HA server
Is there a way to use Amazon Polly voices with this skill?
Hi, thx for this excellent guide, keep them coming. If I say the test command then out works, also a node red flow works with this as a trigger. However if I try to run the script using your test script or even using an inject node on the working node red flow the script is getting executed with no warnings but alexa doesn't say anything. Anyone else having this problem? Could it be a weird firewall thing?
Heya :) thanks for the feedback. Plenty more ti come. So its running but just no sound? If you test the notification via the alexa developer tools (there is a test tab) does alexa make sound in your browser? Just to identify if its tue skill or HA :)
Testing it from the developer console works fine
@@MarkWattTech Also having the same problem here, where testing via the "test tab" works fine but not via my alexa device
Have you seen the issue where the service won't initiate the notification until you say "Alex, start custom actions". This is where I'm stuck. Went through this video several times and recreated skill and all documents to make sure I didn't miss anything. Wondering if it's a permission issue with my alexa device or if i haven't enabled something on the HA side.
The “Hello World” model no longer exists. You need to choose custom and “start from scratch “ for your Alexa Skill. This solved my issue.
thanks for the video, followed it but for some reason it does not work for me; when i try to connect to the skill from the alexa app it says 'Error: invalid client id or redirect uri', any idea of what i might have done wrong?
I got the same issue. You must pick the same region as your amazon account. (I'm in JP, but account is US)
Hey nice vid!
What are the settings I need to change if I would like to use Canadian French?
Thanks!
Sorry, I have no answer. But I do have a question. Have you been able to get it to work in english? because I cannot even succeed at that. when I enable the skill it just tries to link the account and times out. any luck for you?
@@theliquidguy5748 Hi, I wasn't able to get it working in french. I didn't tried in english.
Sorry bro :/
Hi, how can I ask Alexa to do something that is not just turn on or off a device in my home assistant, but do some HA automation, for example Alexa clean my kitchen and start an automation that controls my robot vacuum? Thank you!
I do have same question
Hi
I followed all your instructions and the github page but I can't manage to make it work
I have "utterance conflict"
I live in France and I set it up in French
Any idea on how to solve this ?
What I'd like to see is how'd you get sound from a Bluetooth speaker (without external resources like Google or Amazon), how'd you control remote VLC (without voice) using a Home Assistant control panel?
How about giving the newbees a chance of doing this without getting Google or Amazon involved?
I have a couple of videos I’m working on that allow you to use any speakers and the HA TTS service :)
Hi , is it possible to stream radio on echo devices from HA?
You can use a command to trigger the radio. Check out silent running Alexa commands in the documentation.
You can then use HA ti trigger Alexa as if you had spoken the command. E.g play radio 1
Where is the link to the Alexa developer page?
Is this possible with Google Assistant?
How about 'ALEXA NON-ACTIONABLE NOTIFICATIONS' ... I have just started using Home Assistant and have shelved my SmartThings and Hue hubs but miss a skill that I use to have that ran on groovy that SmartThings will know longer be supporting. The skill was Ask Alexa. The skill enabled me to get the status of devices. It was really nice to be able to say “Alexa, ask the house for house status” and have her tell me what lights or devices that I forgot to turn off. I use to use this all the time when I went to bed and it was nice to ask the dot in my bedroom instead of having to get out of bed and go around the house to find what lights or devices I left on. I had Ask Alexa set to just tell me the names of the devices that were on.
Example: ME: “Alexa, Ask the house for status” … Echo: "the living room light is on, the tv is on,
the porch fan is on, the kitchen light is on, the security tv is on."
So where do I find my web authorization url
Hey Mark, with the " initial: '{"text": "This is a test of the alexa actions custom skill. Did it work?", "event": "actionable.skill.test"}'" I'm getting an error in Studio Visual Code Incorrect type. Expected "integer"
Can we delete this text once we have everything set up?
Same here. I'm guessing so. It doesn't make a difference for my automations, which randomly keeps telling me that "there was a problem with the requested skill's response" Not been able to fix that one yet. When running the actions while editing the automation it appears fine, when running the actions on the automations page I get the error, just like when the automation runs on schedule... Then again, 4 times in a row it worked ok, and then it failed again.. 😢
Hello Mark. Thanks for the video. Sad for me… I have the same results that what was trying the Keaton’s tutorial directly… I’m from Chile, in South America… there’s can be any problem with that? After I'm doing all the steps and after the skill was perfectly connected to my HA… when I call the skill whit the invocation frase… Alexa responds whit a don't know message… (but in Spanish). There’s any suggestions? I really really want’s Alexa Actionable Notifications working on my home automations. Thanks again.
With the skill setup are you able to use the script in the dev tools demo? Im not sure how it all works with other country’s as I have only rested the UK.
@Mark Watt Tech Hi again Mark. When I use the Alexa Simulator on Dev Console... Alexa say "There was a problem with the requested skill's response". I imagine that in your case Alexa response whit the message "This is a test of the Alexa actions custom skill. Did it work?" even in the Alexa Simulator? this is the goal?. Thanks.
@@blopak2 The first time you run it that is the expected response yes. Another way to test the skill is via the Alexa Dev tool. There will be an option that allows you to test your skill. You can then identify if its an issue with your HA config or your skill config.
Been trying this myself for a couple of days now. Set up and deleted a couple of times. Have got the account to link via phone app so assume all is working. BUT. Saying 'Open custom actions' only works on the Android app and not on my echo dot or Alexa on the tablet. Blue ring and bing bong on the echo and the tablet offers 'Custom Carts' game.
Any pointers?
/UPDATE/ For me, de-register and re-register 3rd gen echo dot worked. Don't know why I didn't think of it at the time.:(
Thanks for another great video. I have spent a hole day trying to get this to work with no results. I have deleted the skill and started for the beginning about 20 times. I just get "There was a problem with the requested skill's response" when doing the test initial. Any idea's?
This is what I have been getting too. I've also started from scratch and copied everything. Have the same issues.
@@_od_7825 Thanks to other people in these comments: I had to actually add the port (443, in my case) to my web authorisation (and token) URL in the account linking part.
@@Dutchee1967 turns out I needed to remove a / from the link to my Home Assistant instance! It's now working and I'm coming up with too many uses for this!!!
@@_od_7825 Hi. Which of the / did you have to remove? I have been battling the same problem for a while now
@@Dutchee1967 how did you add the port; (:443) then /auth/authorize?
Hi Mark , Newbie to Home assistant. Struggling to get account linked with HA. When linking my Alexa app it shows the HA page but with an error message “Error: invalid client id or redirect url”. I’ve tried using the remote IP address from nabu casa and also my remote duckdns address to HA but I get the same error on the Alexa app each time . Any ideas ?
Hey Graham. Welcome to the rabbit hole of Home Assistant!
For the first part of the setup (just Alexa setup) try following my newer video on Alexa In Home Assistant 2022 part 1. It’s slightly different so it may just be that. Give me a shout if your still stuck and I will do my best to get back to you :)
Quick question. I only have a Google Home Mini, but planning to get an Echo soon, I wanted to test this with just using the Amazon Alexa app on Android, all has been setup except that at the last point of testing it doesn't respond with the voice "This is a test of the alexa actions custom skill. Did it work?" do you think it could just be because I am actually not using the actual Echo device?
It should work on any Alexa enabled device as it is an Alexa skill. Edit - tested on my iPhone Alexa app and it works.
@@MarkWattTech Thanks for the prompt response.
That's interesting. Does your iPhone appear on the Alexa Media player custom integration in Home Assistant? On my side the integration doesn't show any Alexa devices so I thought the reason could be because it's not an Echo device? If your iPhone does show, maybe I'll need to go back to your video where you show how to install the custom Alexa Media Player integration in Home Assistant?
@@Skhulile84 it doesn’t show in the integration as it’s not a “real” Alexa device. However it can use the Alexa service which is why it can use the skill. So on my iPhone alexa App I can say “custom actions” (name of your skill) and it will respond with my skill question. In my case “do you want me to turn off all the lights”
@@MarkWattTech Thanks for the prompt response again! Really appreciate the work you put into this.
I'll then go and watch both your videos again to see where I could have gone wrong.
@@MarkWattTech Hi, I managed to repeat the steps. however I am now getting an error that says "Skill reponse was marked as failure Request identifier: amznq.ecgo-api..... the target Lambda application returned a failure response". Then Alexa says "There was a problem with the requested skill response" Could you please assist.
Thank you
I got your steps to work correctly but today all my alexa actionable notification saying "This is a test of the alexa actions custom skill. Did it work?" instead of the script.activate_alexa_actionable_notification my custom text. What's wrong and how do I fix this? The HA automations works fine and correct.
I figure it out. The input_text:
alexa_actionable_notification: need to be on the configuration.yaml file. It will not work if you created in the Helper. I learned it the hard way. Hint!
i flower your gide to the t to set up alexa actionable notifiction but when i ask alexa to open custom action it say it may not able to fine the input text it say to check if i had it to home assistant i use file editor it say it save but it not showing in home assistant do no what could it be i am trying for 4 week still no luck
Can this be accomplished using Hubitat?
I'm not sure sorry as I'm not a Hubitat user.
i got an error when calling the custom action?
Sadly I could not connect my skill with my account via the alexa app. It would always say unable to connect, not matter what I tried.
Is there any way to connect this to Hubitat ?
Not sure sorry. It’s not something I have personally tried.
Hi Mark, very nice video!!! Unfortunately I got a scrip error during test and can´t go further.
not a valid value for dictionary value @ data['entity_id']
Seems like it didnt found my echo or not conected with my HA, but every steps got accomplished. Any Idea?
I have the same problem. No idea for a fix.
@@DarixCn I don't know if you have solved your issue yet. I had the same one.
You need to adjust a bit the activate_alexa_actionable_notification script in the service section.
You need to have:
- service:media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: your_echo
See full scritp bellow:
activate_alexa_actionable_notification:
description: "Activates an actionable notification on a specific echo device"
fields:
text:
description: The text you would like alexa to speak.
event_id:
description: Correlation ID for event responses
alexa_device:
description: Alexa device you want to trigger
sequence:
- service: input_text.set_value
data:
entity_id: input_text.alexa_actionable_notification
value: '{"text": "{{ text }}", "event": "{{ event_id }}"}'
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player."your_echo_name"
data:
media_content_type: skill
media_content_id: "your_skill_name"
mode: single
alias: activate_alexa_actionable_notification
@@pierrebrunon3508 Thanks for the help! That got it working.
@@pierrebrunon3508 I'm having the same issue, but have a question on your solution. Doesn't this defeat the purpose of it being a template? Changing data_template to data, and adding a static entry for a Alexa device limits the use to just one Alexa device, where the template allows for the option in an automation to choose a specific Alexa device. Or am I missing something?
@@edwardrauscher8598 So I've had to do this with another project. In the end, you create a separate script for each Echo device and then call that script based on what device you're targeting. A little more of a pain, but just as effective in the end.