Alert integration with custom-components / alexa_media_player #1758
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Since I already have this custom-components / alexa_media_player I have been searching everywhere how to get the Alert integration to work with the it to get Alexa to announce the alert.
In the end through trial and error i stumble across a solution, it’s a lot easier than I thought. I would like to share it here and hope it useful to someone. Let me know if it already covered elsewhere.
This assumes you have the alexa_media_player custom component install and working already.
All you need to do is add these to your configuration.yaml
This will get Alexa to say “front door is open” every 1 minute that the door sensor is in the “on” state
That it, no need to define notify integration as the service notify.alexa_media_name for each echo is already created from the alexa_media component. The extra lines that make it work is
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