bradgyton / home-assistant-on-echo-show

This Alexa skill adds a voice command to open Lovelace dashboards on the Echo Show in the built-in Silk browser.

Alexa Skill to display Lovelace dashboards on Echo Show

This Alexa skill adds a voice command to open Lovelace dashboards on the Echo Show in the built-in Silk browser.

How it works

Let's assume your Home Assistant URL is http://homeassistant.local:8123. Home Assistant dashboard URLs then have the following structure:

http://homeassistant.local:8123/<dashboard-url>/<view-url>

Let's assume you call the skill "dashboard viewer" (this can be changed). When you set this skill up you specify an invocation like

Alexa, tell dashboard viewer to open page <number>

and a dashboard URL like

http://homeassistant.local:8123/dashboard-url

When the skill is invoked, it uses the OpenURL APL command to open the page

http://homeassistant.local:8123/dashboard-url/<number>

in the Silk browser on the Echo Show. That way you can open any view of the specified dashboard as long as you assign numbers as URLs.

Installation

For instructions how to set this skill up refer to the installation page.

How to use

Once you've set this skill up refer to the usage page for details how to use this skill effectively.

TODO

• Make it possible to import this skill via GitHub URL to simplify installation.