Trigger HA Automation from Alexa | Home Assistant | Page 1

autumn ruin Oct 27, 2025, 1:14 AM

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I'm playing with both the HA VoicePE and Alexa for voice control of my HA system. I would like to be able to trigger an HA automation to execute with an Alexa voice command. One way I've thought of doing this is to:

Create a virtual HA switch and enable Alexa control of it
Create an Alexa routine triggered by a specific phrase that turns the switch on/off
Create an automation that is triggered when the switch turns on.

While this will work, the downside is that Alexa gets cluttered with a bunch of virtual switches that someone could accidentally trigger through a voice command (i.e. "turn on the virtual switch") or through the UI on an Echo Show.

I'm curious if anyone has a better way of accomplishing this?

Thanks in advance for your help

onyx heron Oct 27, 2025, 1:17 AM

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Make a script and expose the script to Alexa

autumn ruin Oct 27, 2025, 1:45 AM

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Thanks @onyx heron . I understand making a script. Can you please elaborate on how to expose the Script to Alexa. Thanks again for your help

onyx heron Oct 27, 2025, 1:47 AM

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One of these two ways: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/alexa/

autumn ruin Oct 27, 2025, 1:48 AM

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Thanks @onyx heron . I'll dig into that.

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Are you saying that I need to build a custom Alexa skill or am I missing something? Thanks

onyx heron Oct 27, 2025, 1:53 AM

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Or just use HA cloud

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The first paragraph...

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Your step #1 mentioned enabling 'Alexa control' of a switch, so I figured you already knew how to do that

autumn ruin Oct 27, 2025, 2:07 AM

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I figured it out. I was just being dense. There are always at least 3 ways to do something in HA and, of course, I was looking at the wrong one😀 . Thanks again for your help

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