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
• Amazon Air Quality Monitor
• Third-party devices with built-in Alexa capabilities.

Configuration

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

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Actions

Available Actions

Available actions: notify.send_message, alexa_devices.send_sound, alexa_devices.send_text_command, alexa_devices.send_info_skill

Action: Send message

The notify.send_message action allows you to send messages to devices with appropriate functionality that have speak and announce notify entities created.

Action: Send text command

The alexa_devices.send_text_command action allows you to control Alexa using text commands rather than speech. You should be able to request anything you would via speech using this action.

Action: Send sound

The alexa_devices.send_sound action allows you to play one of the built-in Alexa sounds. The full list of sounds is available in Amazon’s documentation (needs authentication)

Action: Send Info Skill

The alexa_devices.send_info_skill action allows you to run some of the inbuilt Alexa actions that output things like the date, a weather forecast, or tell you a joke.

Sensors

The integration creates sensor entities when the connected device exposes that information. Not every device supports every sensor.

Alarm, timer, and reminder sensors

All Alexa-enabled devices have timestamp sensors that show the next scheduled alarm, timer, and reminder along with their labels.

Environmental and device sensors

• Temperature
• Illuminance
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity

Air Quality Monitor sensors

• Particulate Matter - 10 μm & 2.5 μm
• Carbon Monoxide
• Volatile Organic Compounds Index
• Air Quality Index

Supported functionality

In addition to sensors, you can use the following entities:

• Button - Execute Alexa routines
• Media Player - Play audio/video from several sources
• Notify - Speak and Announce notifications
• Select - Select default device
• Switch - Do not disturb

Examples

Send announcement when you arrive home

automation:
- alias: "AlexaAnnounce"
 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.echo_dot_living_room_announce

Ask the time

action: alexa_devices.send_text_command
data:
 device_id: 037d79c1af96c67ba57ebcae560fb18e
 text_command: whats the time

Set volume

action: alexa_devices.send_text_command
data:
 device_id: 037d79c1af96c67ba57ebcae560fb18e
 text_command: volume 7

Control devices in Alexa

action: alexa_devices.send_text_command
data:
 device_id: 037d79c1af96c67ba57ebcae560fb18e
 text_command: turn study lights off

Play BBC Radio 6

action: alexa_devices.send_text_command
data:
 device_id: 037d79c1af96c67ba57ebcae560fb18e
 text_command: play BBC Radio 6

Play a doorbell sound

action: alexa_devices.send_sound
data:
 sound: amzn_sfx_doorbell_chime_01
 device_id: 037d79c1af96c67ba57ebcae560fb18e

Using advanced markup in a notification

action: notify.send_message
data:
 message: >
 Hello, lets have some examples.
 <amazon:emotion name="excited" intensity="medium"> This is me being mildly excited! </amazon:emotion>
 The farmer's dog was called <say-as interpret-as='spell-out'>bingo</say-as>.
 <prosody pitch='high'> I can sing high </prosody> <prosody pitch='low'> and I can sing low </prosody>
target:
 entity_id: notify.study_dot_speak

action: notify.send_message
data:
 message: >
 Stop! <break time='3s'/> Hammer Time. Watch out
 <audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/scifi/amzn_sfx_scifi_laser_gun_battle_01"/>
 Shields up! <audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/scifi/amzn_sfx_scifi_shields_up_01" />
 <amazon:effect name="whispered">
 <prosody rate="x-slow"><prosody volume="loud">Enough now</prosody></prosody>
 </amazon:effect>
target:
 entity_id: notify.study_dot_speak

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 five minutes by default.

Known limitations

• This integration requires multi-factor authentication using an authentication app (such as Microsoft Authenticator). To enable MFA, in your Amazon account settings, select Login & Security > 2-step verification > Backup methods > Add new app. See Amazon’s documentation for more information.
• Reminders may not be added to the sensor if the configured account is linked to an Alexa Household.
• Amazon Japan appears to use a different login mechanism to other locations preventing setup of the integration. This should be resolved in a future release.

Troubleshooting

Unable to set up

Symptom: “CannotAuthenticate”

Description

You will see MFA OTP code not found on login page or Cannot find "auth-mfa-otpcode" in html source in the logs when trying to set up the integration. This is because the authentication details are incorrect.

You need to ensure you are:

• using the right credentials (The ones you would use to log in to the Alexa app and Amazon shopping site)
• set up to use app based 2FA
• not set up to receive SMS 2FA codes

To test this you should log in to your local Amazon shopping site in incognito/private mode in your browser and check you are prompted for the OTP code from your authenticator app, and you can log in successfully.

Sensors unavailable

Symptom: “Too many requests”

You see something similar to

• Error retrieving devices state: Too many requests for path ['listEndpoints']
• Error retrieving data: CannotRetrieveData('Request failed: Bad Request')
• Failed to obtain notification data. Timers and alarms have not been updated

In logs.

Description

This happens because of rate limits applied by Amazon. We are working to reduce these errors. If these errors are causing you issues, you can disable polling for the integration. Disabling polling will stop these errors, but it will also stop DND, sensors, and connectivity from being updated. However, speech, announcements, and text commands will continue to work.

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 dots menu. Then, select Delete.