# ALEXA , What is my water temperature?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950
**Category:** General
**Created:** [5 July 2019 11:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950 "2019-07-05T11:06:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@JoseGodinho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JoseGodinho)
#### Post date: [5 July 2019 11:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950/1 "2019-07-05T11:06:10Z")
Hello All
Considering that I have A variable in a flow, how can i ask Alexa to read it out loud?.
just need the basics, what is the node and config:
Thank you in advance
José
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### Author:  [@afelix](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/afelix)
#### Post date: [5 July 2019 11:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950/2 "2019-07-05T11:25:54Z")
What have you tried so far, and how do you connect to Alexa?
[https://flows.nodered.org/?num\_pages=1](https://flows.nodered.org/?num_pages=1)
Take a look at nodes/flows posted here to see what others have done before.
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### Author:  [@JoseGodinho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JoseGodinho)
#### Post date: [5 July 2019 12:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950/3 "2019-07-05T12:30:49Z")
yes I have seen that, but there is so many nodes and version, I just wanted someone that have done it to share
thank you
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### Author:  [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)
#### Post date: [5 July 2019 12:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950/4 "2019-07-05T12:41:49Z")
Look at the green ones, they are flows that you can import which would appear to be just what you want…
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [7 July 2019 10:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950/5 "2019-07-07T10:28:26Z")
AFAIK you can't get Alexa to speak custom phrases - it just responds OK if it receives a valid request
I've not found a method anyway
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### Author:  [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)
#### Post date: [7 July 2019 10:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950/6 "2019-07-07T10:42:05Z")
You can get it to play a sound file and there are several examples on the flows site of asking alexa a specific question, and having the flow use a text-to-speech service to create a sound file which alexa then plays.
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [7 July 2019 10:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950/7 "2019-07-07T10:45:59Z")
Your search skills are exceeding mine 🙂
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### Author:  [@JayDickson](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JayDickson)
#### Post date: [7 July 2019 17:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950/8 "2019-07-07T17:16:30Z")
You can do custom TTS with [https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2)
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### Author:  [@JayDickson](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JayDickson)
#### Post date: [7 July 2019 17:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950/9 "2019-07-07T17:21:39Z")
You may have some luck playing with [https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill) . This is my go-to for using alexa to trigger node-red events (I went this route because they support color commands, not just on/off and brightness like many do) and it looks like it supports the thermostat commands too.
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### Author:  [@JoseGodinho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JoseGodinho)
#### Post date: [9 July 2019 11:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950/10 "2019-07-09T11:27:13Z")
Thank you, I will take a look
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [9 July 2019 12:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-what-is-my-water-temperature/12950/11 "2019-07-09T12:14:34Z")
> [@JayDickson](#):
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> You can do custom TTS with [https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2)
🙂
Just tried this and it works 🙂