# Alexa home skill

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**Created:** [11 April 2020 10:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-home-skill/24635 "2020-04-11T10:16:07Z")\
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I don't think you can do exactly what you want but you could try using the alexa-remote2 node on its own with the Q&A skill and set up question like

"Alexa, read garden temperature"

and then check when its received

See [Get number from Alexa - #5 by E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/get-number-from-alexa/23138/5)

but also note that I have reliability issues

> [@Alexa-remote2 not supplying all requests reliably and other issues with it](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote2-not-supplying-all-requests-reliably/24403):
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> I've been using alexa-remote2 a bit recently (coupled with the Q&A skill) as per this useful thread but I'm finding its not quite reliable enough (compared to using @hardillb[node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill (node) - Node-RED](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill) ) for everyday use and I'm wondering is it just my setup or do others have same issue Basically, I find that if I say "alexa fast forward" - if alexa is successfully triggered, then it picks this the spoken phrase 100% of the time and the activity node outputs the mes…

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