Any ideas on how to achieve the same user experience when it comes to controlling IR devices via broadcomm? My current clunky thinking is using different phrases in different rooms but that’s not very family friendly. I can get this working with “turn on lights” due to having all lights in HA exposed to Alexa and then putting the in rooms within the Alexa app. I’ve got TV’s and apple tvs in multiple rooms and ultimately want the same “watch tv” command to work in whichever room hears the command.

Any pointers?Īnother thing I haven’t got to yet is how home assistant handles this for multiple rooms. What kind of wording have others used that doesn’t confuse Alexa. I’m hoping this kind of alexa voice control for switching on a tv and switching inputs is quite a common use case.

I’ve tried renaming the scripts to thinks like “watch tv” but I then get “I couldn’t find any enabled video skills that can do that”.

If I choose one, it thinks for a while and then responds with “tv on not responding” The issue is if I say “Alexa, new tv on”, I get a response of “A couple things share that name: new tv off and new tv on”. (switch on tv and switch input to digital) 'Apple TV on (switch on tv and switch input to hdmi) I think the problem is the wording I’m choosing and how alexa is interpretting that. I use nabucasa and I can see the scripts showing in the alexa app as scenes. Everything works fine from Home Assistant but I’m struggling a bit to get this working with Alexa. I’ve got the codes learned and from what I’ve found from reading online, this needs to be added as scripts to send a sequence of nd commands with delays as required. I’m looking to use a broadlink rm4 to handle turning on a non-smart TV and switching to the appropriate input.

Setting up alexa