Customize

Customization

Custom Names

Sometimes the "friendly name", or "display category" of an entity in Home Assistant is different from what you want to say to Alexa. Home Assistant has an option to define a custom name that will be used for voice commands with Alexa.

You can do this by adding an entity_config to the alexa component in your configuration file.

Example:

alexa:
  smart_home:
    entity_config:
      light.kitchen:
        name: Custom name for Alexa
        display_categories: LIGHT

Hiding Entities

If there's an entity you'd like to hide from haaska, you can do that by adding the entity to the exclude_entities section of the alexa component configuration e.g.:

alexa:
  smart_home:
    filter:
      exclude_entities:
        - light.kitchen