# \[APP\]\[Pro\] Amazon Echo - Your Home, Your Assistant, Always Ready **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Created:** [November 12, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365 "2024-11-12T12:33:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Drako74](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/drako74/32/150506_2.png) [@Drako74](https://community.homey.app/u/Drako74)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/406 "2026-10-21T18:57:43Z")
Hi @staeff is there anything you might be able to do for this please? I’ve seen on a couple forums that it works in Home Assistant, but it doesn’t seem to currently work with either Homey Alexa apps. Thank you kindly good sir 🫡 > [@\[APP\]\[Pro\] Amazon Echo - Looking for testers and contributors](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-looking-for-testers-and-contributors/120365/392): > > 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 ---
**Author:** ![staeff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/staeff/32/79712_2.png) [@staeff](https://community.homey.app/u/staeff)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/407 "2026-10-21T19:03:52Z")
Hi @Drako74, sorry, but I won’t be adding the Air Quality Monitor. I’m keeping this app to Echo devices on purpose. I only own Echos, so I can’t test anything else myself, and every other kind of device means troubleshooting hardware I don’t have. The library behind this app could read it, so it’s not a technical limit, just a choice to keep the app something I can actually support well. Thanks for understanding! ---
**Author:** ![Drako74](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/drako74/32/150506_2.png) [@Drako74](https://community.homey.app/u/Drako74)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/408 "2026-10-21T19:29:43Z")
Okay, thanks for the honest reply, appreciated. I almost wish I had bought more of them when they were on sale for 30 quid, at that price I’d have happily sent you one to test 🤣 I had to ask though, so thank you for understanding. ---
**Author:** ![loy80y](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@loy80y](https://community.homey.app/u/loy80y)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 4:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/409 "2026-10-22T04:08:18Z")
thanks for checking the logs to confirm this. ill run the tests that you mentioned either tomorrow or on the weekend. good idea on running a routine in the alexa app to see if it occurs there. ill remind myself to take some screenshots of the announcements i set up for reference. yea ive been using say for the critical announcements as they go through regardless if the echo devices are on dnd or not. i dont have too many long announcements from memory. the ones that were annoying that it said it twice is when it keeps me informed about my solar production and my tesla battery percentage throughout the day. ill see how i go after testing. if its too annoying i may change these to a say instead of announce. i would like to keep the peace in the house by not having this announce too many times during the day. 😆 i would prefer to keep alexa+ enabled also. appears that other people in the house are liking it so far. ---
**Author:** ![loy80y](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@loy80y](https://community.homey.app/u/loy80y)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 8:55am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/410 "2026-10-25T08:55:07Z")
> [@staeff](#): > > 1. A short (about 3 s) and a medium (8–10 s) announcement: which ones repeat? I’ve already been using short and medium length ones and hasn’t repeated so far. still doing some tests to see where it would start repeating. > [@staeff](#): > > 1. A routine in the Alexa app that announces your long text: does that repeat too? there’s a character limit so I can’t put the same amount of text as my tests. I just used one of my responses in this forum post and it cut it off as shown here. the say is a bit longer than the announce on the Alexa app. ![IMG_3847](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/0/c/0c417f0a69bd619497ff3898fd9df42e03dd6805.png) the full length from my response that I used in homey to test is this: > [@loy80y](#): > > No just the single app. i haven’t used the other app up until a recent update to resolve the stability issues of the other app. i’ve been using your appthe past couple of months. i started to notice it saying the announcments twice around the same time i enabled Alexa+. I’m sure it was working fine when i transferred over to using your app from the other Alexa app. Meaning announcements only triggered once as per the flow i set up. ---
**Author:** ![thierry\_arguimbau](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thierry_arguimbau/32/155444_2.png) [@thierry\_arguimbau](https://community.homey.app/u/thierry_arguimbau)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/411 "2026-10-25T23:41:52Z")
Hello Staeff, Would it be possible to create a card to enable or disable an existing alarm in Alexa? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Drako74](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/drako74/32/150506_2.png) [@Drako74](https://community.homey.app/u/Drako74)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 7:36am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/412 "2026-10-26T07:36:43Z")
Alternatively you can use the alarms native to Homey, that with Flows give you a great deal more flexibility and control… ![IMG_8182](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/7/2/72f143f2ad09cbf9d1570f48e1a8cc8a674ddf66.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![staeff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/staeff/32/79712_2.png) [@staeff](https://community.homey.app/u/staeff)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/413 "2026-10-26T19:51:50Z")
Hi Thierry, This is in the next version (2.5.0) that is currently available as a test version. There’s a new flow card Turn an alarm on or off: pick the Echo, then choose one of its alarms from the list (shown with its time, label and next ring) and set it on or off. I also added three more alarm cards: - An alarm is set for today/tomorrow (condition) - Get the alarms for a day: gives you their times and label as tags, e.g. for a notification - Skip the alarms on a day: a repeating alarm skips only that day and stays on for the days after So a flow like “at 20:00, if tomorrow is a public holiday and an alarm is set for tomorrow, ask me whether to skip it” now works, together with the Public Holidays app and Homey’s own “Confirm … with [user]” push notification. One thing to know: Amazon can only skip an alarm’s next ring. So if an alarm still rings later today, tomorrow’s can only be skipped after that. If you try it, please let me know how it goes, especially whether a repeating alarm keeps its days after you turn it off and on again with the card. ---
**Author:** ![thierry\_arguimbau](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thierry_arguimbau/32/155444_2.png) [@thierry\_arguimbau](https://community.homey.app/u/thierry_arguimbau)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/414 "2026-10-28T22:39:14Z")
Hi Staeff, Thanks—this is exactly what I needed, and it works very well. ---
**Author:** ![Giovanni4312](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/giovanni4312/32/155115_2.png) [@Giovanni4312](https://community.homey.app/u/Giovanni4312)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 10:18am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/415 "2026-10-29T10:18:38Z")
the groups no longer work ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/7/9/793b927a43ba0e75ba1513ad388c38798daed4e9.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![staeff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/staeff/32/79712_2.png) [@staeff](https://community.homey.app/u/staeff)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 10:31am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/416 "2026-10-29T10:31:16Z")
please create a diagnostic report and also be aware that play/pause on groups only works if there is something actually playing on the group, not just an individual speaker. ---
**Author:** ![staeff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/staeff/32/79712_2.png) [@staeff](https://community.homey.app/u/staeff)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365/417 "2026-11-01T14:16:12Z")
Quick update: I’ve removed the “looking for testers” part from the title and updated the first post. The app has been stable for quite a while now, so it didn’t make sense to call it a test version anymore. The first post now lists everything that has been added since (music, alarms, Alexa lists, Do Not Disturb, screen controls, …) and has a short troubleshooting section. I was also a bit behind on thanking the people who sponsored the app over the last year. So a big thank you to **Andreas B., Andreas G., Frank H., Peter S., Christoph W. and Daniel H.** ❤ Your support is much appreciated! You’re now also listed in the first post. If you’d rather not be mentioned there, just send me a message and I’ll remove your name. [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-amazon-echo-your-home-your-assistant-always-ready/120365.md?page=20)