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Initial Home Assistant Configuration

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Antonio edited this page Jul 3, 2023 · 7 revisions

Goals

A tiny configuration required to be done first.

  • edit
  • check

Prerequisites

You know the general Prerequisites (step 1).

Creating the input_text entity

Make sure to install it i.e. into /config/configuration.yaml.

input_text:
  alexa_actionable_notification:
    name: Alexa Actionable Notification Holder
    max: 255
    initial: '{"text": "This is a test of the alexa actionable notifications skill. Did it work?", "event": "actionable.skill.test", "suppress_confirmation": "false"}'
  • Translate the text to your language to get a smooth experience.
  • Use the Developer Tools to reload INPUT TEXTS.

Available options

Option Type Allowed Values Description
text string The text to be spoken by alexa
event string The event to trigger after alexa gets a response from the user
suppress_confirmation boolean If it should suppress the "Okay" after every request

Checking success

Go to Developer Tools > STATES and search for it.

Screenshot of search for the entity

Head to the next step: Alexa Talking to Home Assistant (The Skill)

If you get an error with the skills response:

For the URL make sure you are using an external URL and not your personal internal IP that you use to access the HA dashboard.

Make sure you setup port forwarding to let HA communicate to outside your firewall.

Go to this video and watch how to port forward, create a URL, and setup the DNS in Home Assistant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkBcGl7Vq8s

Index

Alexa Actionable Notifications

Getting started

  1. Prerequisites
  2. Initial Configuration
  3. Alexa Talking to Home Assistant (The Skill)
  4. Home Assistant Talking to Alexa (The Script)
  5. Hello World

Further Reading

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