Making it easier for automations to respond to the satellite that is involved

[slemson]

Describe the feature

I'd like to have a checkbox whenever I'm required to specify an entity_id of a satellite to "respond to the active device" or something like that.

Use cases

Say I have an automation that begins with me saying "Hey Jarvis, I'm going upstairs". [Jarvis checks the status of doors and windows downstairs and responds] "The garage door is open, do you want to close it or leave it open?"

This uses the new question action, but the entity_id is required and the command could have been started from any of the downstairs satellites but I have to specify which one to ask the question on. It seems like you were thinking this would only be used for HA to initiate the question at the outset. Am I using this incorrectly?

Current workarounds

I don't have a workaround. I'm having to hardcode the device. I suspect there may be more for me in "intents" but I've been unable to find a good tutorial on using them. This feels like a very common use case. Anyone who works with Alexa never has to think about where she should respond because it's inferred that she will always respond to the device where the conversation was initiated. Yet when I'm building automations for voicein HA, I seem to have to code for that very common scenario. A checkbox would be easier.

Anything else?

No response

[arturpragacz]

You can use a template: {{ device_entities(trigger.device_id) | select('match', '^assist_satellite\.') | first }}.

[Bennett-Wendorf]

For many assist satellites, trigger.satellite_id is also defined as the entity id of the satellite that was called.

[arturpragacz]

Yes, that answer was written before I added the satellite_id. It is available for all satellites that have an assist_satellite entity.