At present I use HA with Cloud and Alexa HA skill to control everything - I'm trying to set up custom sentences with Alexa, and the only way I've been able to achieve this is by exposing the scene, for example, and then set up the routine in the Alexa app.
This is frustrating, because the app is terrible, and they have removed every other options for accessing it, so it HAS to be done via the app!
Is there any way to get all this done inside HA so I don't have to go to the Alexa app, and then everything I do is in one place, and subject to all my system backups, etc