#Creating alexa skill for Home Assistant

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old kettle
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I am following this guide linked below and i am stuck on entering information for my home assistant. Do you guys know where i can find the information this config file needs? I am creating a skill for HA so i can talk to alexa and it turns on and off my lights, ect

https://github.com/fabianosan/HomeAssistantAssist/blob/main/doc/en/INSTALLATION.md

GitHub

Alexa Skill that integrates Home Assistant Assist or your preferred Generative AI via the conversation API and also allows you to open your favorite dashboard on Echo Show. - fabianosan/HomeAssista...

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Update: i think i provided the correc tthings but i am having trouble finding the skill on my phone after publishing

rancid sable
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Is there a reason you don't just use the built in alexa support in HA? 🤔

old kettle
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I saw something about a trial

rancid sable
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Pretty sure it doesn't cost anything in and of itself

old kettle
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oh wow, i would love to use that then

rancid sable
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You can use the nabu cloud subscription to make it simpler, but pretty sure people have done it without the cloud service, just requires more work

old kettle
rancid sable
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Not really sure, i use in house voice assist instead of Google or Alexa 😅

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May be some info on the forums?

old kettle
rancid sable
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The ha instructions seem to assume you have the nabu cloud service

rancid sable
old kettle
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haha, i didnt understand any of those

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Ive seen Voice PE somehwere online

old kettle
rancid sable
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Yep

old kettle
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is there any free options?

rancid sable
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Not sure there really would be. Tho connect to the alexa platform i think you'd need a registered domain name and records? Not really sure though

old kettle
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oof that soudns complicated for someone who just started ussing HA today

rancid sable
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In the page you linked it's asking for external url if your home Assistant instance

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So you'd either need the cloud service which makes one for you, or you'd probably need to set some external dns name up and generate certificates through letsencrypt or something like that

old kettle
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So with your way of doing it, it uses assist which is payed?

rancid sable
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Nope mine is all inhouse

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Can run without Internet

old kettle
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were you able to do that free?

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or did you need a subscription somewhere

rancid sable
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I have my own servers and hardware 😅

old kettle
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ohh i see

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yea all i have rn is the home assistant green

rancid sable
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So if you had nabu cloud, as part of the subscripton they provide cloud stt and tts servers for assist

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And you could also connect alexa if you wanted

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They do that automatically for you i think, or with some simple steps

old kettle
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I found a vid online that im following but it seems that one of the steps i dont have

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im at 4:52 but im not sure how to access to even add the config file