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Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy
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My hope is that I can use custom sentences to send values to a script or service that, in-turn, will trigger an appdaemon app where I can do all the work in python. I'm not sure about returning the calculated value as a response though.
That's how I built my harmony hub replacement.
Home assistant has an automation event that lets you set the conversation result, but you've already passed my ability haha so I can't tell you how to pull the result in from an external service.
It may well be worth building it as a home assistant integration rather than just custom sentence triggered automations.
Yeah, I hadn't really considered writing an integration but this is more general purpose than my universal remote.
Well if you do, contribute it to home assistant and I'll install it 😆, it's actually a little surprising conversions aren't supported natively but I guess there is a lot to cover and they will get there eventually.