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Alexa Devices

The Alexa Devices integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] lets you control Alexa-enabled devices connected to your Amazon account.

The integration provides information on connected devices and enables control of the main features.

Supported devices

There is support for the following device families within Home Assistant:

  • Amazon Echo Auto
  • Amazon Echo Dot
  • Amazon Echo Flex
  • Amazon Echo Plus
  • Amazon Echo Show
  • Amazon Fire TV Stick
  • Amazon Fire Tablet

and all 3rd party that has Alexa capabilities built-in

Warning

Currently, only MFA-protected Amazon accounts via the authenticator app are supported.

Configuration

To add the Alexa Devices hub to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

  • Go to Settings > Devices & Services.

  • In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.

  • From the list, select Alexa Devices.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

country

The country of your Amazon account.

username

The email address of your Amazon account.

password

The password of your Amazon account.

otp

One-time password via Authenticator App.

Note

When trying to set up the integration, the form may show the message “Cannot connect”. This means that the specified country may need a special setting. Open a issue with all details to investigate

Examples

Automation: Announce welcome when you arrive home 

automation:
- alias: "Alexa Announce"
  id: "alexa_announce"
  triggers:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: person.simone
      to: "home"
  actions:
    - action: notify.send_message
      data:
        message: Welcome home Simone
      target:
        entity_id: notify.announce_echo_dot_livingroom

Automation: Start Radio on all Echo dots 

automation:
- alias: Start Radio B.B.C.
  id: "start_radio_bbc"
  trigger:
   - platform: sun
     event: sunset
  condition:
    conditions:
      - alias: "condition alias (home)"
        condition: state
        entity_id: group.person_family
        state: "home"
  action:
    - action: notify.send_message
      data:
        message: Play B.B.C. on Tunein
      target:
        entity_id: notify.custom_everywhere

Data updates

This integration pollsData polling is the process of querying a device or service at regular intervals to check for updates or retrieve data. By defining a custom polling interval, you can control how frequently your system checks for new data, which can help optimize performance and reduce unnecessary network traffic. [Learn more] data from the device every 30 seconds by default.

Supported functionality

The Alexa Devices integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] provides the following entities:

  • Binary sensor - main and Bluetooth connectivity
  • Notify - Speak and Announce notifications
  • Switch - Do not disturb

Removing the integration

This integration follows standard integration removal. No extra steps are required.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

  1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
  2. From the list of devices, select the integration instance you want to remove.
  3. Next to the entry, select the three-dot menu. Then, select Delete.