Alexa as a speech-to-text engine for rules?

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@binderth

For every echo-device there’s an “lastVoiceCommand”-channel, which has Alexa’s recognized text - no matter, what you said and Alexa knew the command. You have to create your own rule then to pick/transfer it to your own script.

I‘m doing this for some weeks now to control my „dumb“ TV via an IR blaster. Works perfectly well. See here (the custom skill part is essential, though).