control display of Alexa Echo dot

[versed scarab]

Hey guys, I have a question. I switched from Io broker to Homeassistent, and I am really satisfied so far. But I need one more thing.

I have a Echo dot device with led clock near my bed and I am really light sensitive, so I want the led clock to be turned off at night. In Io broker it was possible to see the echos as a device and I was able to controll values like brightness of the led clock. So I made a script which turned the clock off at sunset and back on at sunrise.

I also have a motion sensor under my bed to turn on some light when I stand up at night. When motion is detected I also want to turn the led clock on and back off when the light goes out.

Does anyone has an idea if this is also possible with Homeassistent? Is there a integration for controlling the Alexa devices via Homeassistent?

[unkempt ruin]

assuming you can turn it on/off with a alexa voice command you could simulate that by sending the command using alexa media player custom integration

  entity_id: media_player.AELXA_DEVICE_NAME
data:
  media_content_type: custom
  media_content_id: VOICE COMMAND HERE
action: media_player.play_media```

a side effect is that you may get a "okay" responce or something. so you might have to do something like reduce volume - send command - restore volume if you want to avoid that

totally differnt use case but: i this this voice command emulation to turn off a tv which has a fire stick in it which can turn the tv off via hdmi cec

[versed scarab]

Interesting approach, I will try that. Thank you !
It would be still nice to have a own integration for the few settings which can be controlled, without sending voice commands. Maybe the media player integration could be extended.