Any help would be appreciated. I have an ESP8266 that logs a volume in liters (going to change to a percentage but that irrelevant) to an mqtt broker. I have this value in node red and would like to ask Alexa to retrieve it for me. Any directions on where to start? Regards

Look at this thread for a start: [image] Pure fun with Alexa and Alexa Skills Share Your Projects Now the authentication problem with various Alexa nodes has been sorted I thought I'd try something new. I used BluePrints to create a Q&A skill called 'Give me a status repo…

Have a look at this thread for some ideas. [image] Pure fun with Alexa and Alexa Skills Share Your Projects A "6 Echo" houshold. Respect! slight_smile I get my ESP8266-based sensors to report their readings, via MQTT, to Node-RED where they are stored either in a data…

Thanks for the link guys. I've got this far but seem to be stuck getting a response. I've set up the blueprint skill and Alexa responds as per my blueprint but I get nothing on any of my debug nodes. I can inject into routine and she will say it. Authorization seems fine. Any quick insight would be …

Try this simple flow to get you started. [Screen Shot 12-10-21 at 07.23 AM] It should capture your question and the device_name You'll need to adjust the credentials in the 'initialise' node to match your geographical location, IP, etc.. [{"id":"9d5de8e11c041b38","type":"alexa-remote-init","z":…

Awesome, Thanks Dave. From that I have got it to work and can probably expand on from there. Quick question. I can't seem to set a file path to save the authentication to. I have created a new file at /home/alexa_init.txt but it still complains about no such file. Any tips?

Does that file actually exist?? If you are running on a RPi, have you done a 'touch' to create it?? The path you are using is owned by root so.. Probably a better path for the file would be.. /home/pi/alexa_init.txt Here's some code to help you start formatting a report-message. I've taken it fr…

You do not have to save the authorization to file you can save to context storage, you can retrieve it from context in an inject node and feed it back into the init node to restore authorization e.g. [{"id":"e63c03b3.745b48","type":"inject","z":"d629013b.18a518","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"}…

Awesome, that helps. I can now ask Alexa either what percentage or how many liters there are in the tank. However I have an issue with the whole thing when HA or Node-Red restarts. Seems it requires me to go through the whole, open a webpage and sign in process which is not ideal. Unsure if this wi…

Turn Auto Init off in your remote2 config. The inject nodes with the saved authentication will do that for you. Auto Init on to initialise the account everytime the node starts or has changed But you are not saving to file so it should be Off.

Thanks! :grinning: I'll give that a shot

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Look at this thread for a start:

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Alexa what is the tank level?

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