Is there a way to use aliases in custom

[twin raven]

so you want to use the alias of a cover entity to set its position with a custom intent, judging by #voice-assistants-archived message right?

And I guess you're getting An unexpected error occurred while handling the intent in Assist

and an Unexpected intent error in the logs, right?

@main spruce

[twin raven]

anyway... long story short, although the {name} placeholder works i.e. you can find an entity by name/alias in a custom intent, you can't easily get the entity_id to handle it. please raise an issue with the core repo stating your problem.

I'll try to create a helper that converts name/alias to entity_id in templates. I'm not sure it will get accepted, though