My Flow is a little more complex than that 
Test version 2.3.0 is out: Amazon Echo | Homey
@Pantera_Ruber this one’s for you:
- New: Announce with Voice. It works with every voice, including Swedish, Danish, Polish and the others Alexa can’t speak itself. Like all announcements, it’s silent during Do Not Disturb.
- Say with Voice now only lists the voices Alexa can speak directly, and keeps talking during Do Not Disturb.
- Existing flows that use one of the other voices on Say with Voice keep working. They’re now sent as an announcement, so they finally use the right voice, but go quiet during Do Not Disturb.
Dutch users: Lotte and Ruben are on the announcement side, since Amazon doesn’t list them for Alexa’s normal speech. If they sounded fine to you with Say with Voice before, please let me know.
@staeff Ich verbeuge mich!
Vielen Dank. I will test it asap.
It seems to work! Thank you very much!
@staeff : However, allow me to confuse you. I have old flows with the “say” card. This now works flawlessly with Danish and Swedish, but I cannot create new “say” cards with Danish or Swedish. However I can create new “announce” cards with Swedish and Danish. Interesting! (Runnning 2.3.0)
That’s intended. Alexa’s normal speech can’t do Swedish or Danish, so Say with Voice doesn’t offer them anymore. Use Announce with Voice for those in new flows. Old Say cards with those voices keep working because they’re sent as announcements now to not break completely, but they now also stay quiet during Do Not Disturb.
Hi Stefan @staeff
I’m trying to find a way to connect/read data from the Amazon Smart Air Quality sensor. I read somewhere that the HA Echo integration can read its data readings, but so far I haven’t found a way to get it to work with Homey. This is what it looks like in the Alexa mobile app, but I was hoping to be able to create Flows with it:
I was hoping you might be able to offer some insights?
Much appreciated
Hello staeff,
a really good app. No problem to stay connected anymore. Thank you.
I just created a group device to anounce some alerts through all Alexas in the house. Unfortunetly there are not all flow cards availible in a group device like in a single Alexa.
I wonder, if thats not possible or you just forget some.
Sadly it’s not possible to run any commands besides volume and media control on groups. This is not a limitation of the app but of the Alexa/Echo ecosystem.
Feel free to pinch some of my working on Advanced Flows I set up to do just this (depending on an AnnouncemeAll variable), and to also make announcements based on presence detection but default to all if no presence detected. They also mute any music or TV in the relevant rooms for the announcement. If you want any assistance deciphering my chicken scribble just ask.
Hello staeff and Drako74,
I thought it is a limitation on Alexa.
I appreciate your display of you solution, Drako74. I think it’s a good start for my own flow.
