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tacit flame Apr 17, 2025, 3:03 PM

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Hi,

I have successfully set-up the Alexa Skill to expose HA entities, and I am controlling basic functionality using my Alexa pucks around the house. I have two main complaints that I am wondering if anyone else struggles with:

I feel like there's not a two-way communication. Alexa sends the signal to "turn off" and if it doesn't, it still seems to think that it has.
I've just set-up OpenAI Conversation/Whisper/Piper Voice Assistant pipeline, and I am wondering if there is anyway to integrate this with my Alexa pucks

Kindly,
Austin

formal hollow Apr 17, 2025, 7:48 PM

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Alexa is getting worse in terms of supporting third-party skills. And no, there's no way to use Alexa as voice assistant in HA

tacit flame Apr 20, 2025, 11:40 PM

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I mean, I was successfully able to expose local HA devices to Alex - is it too much of a stretch to think that somehow the voice assistant could be exposed somehow?

formal hollow Apr 21, 2025, 4:20 AM

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Yes, it's too much. It's completely different technology, and the core functionality of that (getting any information from Alexa itself) is blocked.

tacit flame Apr 23, 2025, 1:12 AM

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thanks for the response - any recommendations on slowly replacing my alexa pucks with something a bit more open source? I run a mostly wifi home assistant network

formal hollow Apr 23, 2025, 2:01 AM

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Voice PE, Koala/Respeaker satellite, FutureProofHomes Satellite1. All have their own advantages. 🙂

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