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Amazon Account

Your echo devices are connected to your Amazon account. You can access the developer console for Alexa skills. You don't need an AWS developer account, as long as your skill doesn't exceed the range of typical personal usage of AWS resources.

Screenshot of ask account

Alexa Media Player

Alexa Actionable Notifications make use of the Alexa Media Player custom component. Install it via HACS. Make sure it is up and running. Get acquainted to the usage before going on.

Screenshot of Alexa Media Player inside HACS

Find your locale code

The following languages are currently supported by the Alexa developer console. In doubt open the Alexa App and check out the language settings of the echo device you are targeting.

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Accessibility from outside

The Alexa skill needs access to your Home Assistant. There are different approaches to do this, including the services of Nabucasa, Cloudflare, Duckdns and Let’s Encrypt. Please use search machines to figure out your personal solution.

If you choose the Duckdns addon, consider the NGINX proxy addon to separate external HTTPS from internal HTTP.

Screenshot of Duckdns addon Screenshot of NGINX add

Head to the next step: Initial Config

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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