I’ve been exploring the integration between Alexa and my smart home setup, and I’ve stumbled upon an interesting challenge. When using both the Alexa Smart Home Skill (ASHS) and the Alexa Device Control custom integration, I noticed that Alexa starts detecting and announcing all the switches and sensors from my Echo devices. It’s almost like Alexa is seeing itself in a loop! While I understand that adding entities to the exclude list can help, manually entering dozens of them seems tedious.
I was wondering if there’s a smarter way to handle this, perhaps by using wildcards to exclude multiple entities at once. For instance, if I could exclude all switches and sensors that have ‘echo’ in their names, that would save me a lot of time. I’ve tried a few configurations, like exclude: - switch.*echo - sensor.*echo, but I’m not entirely sure if this is the most efficient approach.
Has anyone else encountered this issue and found a workaround? Any tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated! It would be fantastic to streamline this process and ensure that Alexa only detects the devices I want it to.