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atom.xml

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   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
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blog/categories/announcements/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Announcements | Home Assistant]]></title>
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   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/community/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Community | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/community/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/device-tracking/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Device-Tracking | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/device-tracking/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/esp8266/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: ESP8266 | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/esp8266/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/how-to/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: How-To | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/how-to/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/ibeacons/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: iBeacons | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/ibeacons/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/internet-of-things/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Internet-of-Things | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/internet-of-things/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/iot-data/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: IoT-Data | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/iot-data/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/media/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Media | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/media/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/merchandise/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Merchandise | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/merchandise/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/micropython/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Micropython | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/micropython/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/mqtt/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: MQTT | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/mqtt/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
+  <updated>2017-08-13T08:24:08+00:00</updated>
   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/organisation/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Organisation | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/organisation/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/owntracks/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: OwnTracks | Home Assistant]]></title>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/owntracks/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/presence-detection/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Presence-Detection | Home Assistant]]></title>
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   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/public-service-announcement/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Public-Service-Announcement | Home Assistant]]></title>
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   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/release-notes/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Release-Notes | Home Assistant]]></title>
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   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/survey/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Survey | Home Assistant]]></title>
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   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/talks/atom.xml

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   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/technology/atom.xml

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   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/technology/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
-  <updated>2017-08-13T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
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   <id>https://home-assistant.io/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/user-stories/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: User-Stories | Home Assistant]]></title>
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   <link href="https://home-assistant.io/"/>
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     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/video/atom.xml

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   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Home Assistant]]></name>

blog/categories/website/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Website | Home Assistant]]></title>
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components/alexa/index.html

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 </code></pre>
 </div>
 <p>Now say <code class="highlighter-rouge">Alexa ask homeassistant to run &lt;some script&gt;</code> and Alexa will run that script for you.</p>
+<h3><a class="title-link" name="support-for-launch-requests" href="#support-for-launch-requests"></a> Support for Launch Requests</h3>
+<p>There may be times when you want to respond to a launch request initiated from a command such as “Alexa, Red Alert!”.</p>
+<p>To start you need to get the skill id:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Log in to <a href="https://developer.amazon.com">Amazon developer console</a></li>
+  <li>Click the Alexa button at the top of the console</li>
+  <li>Click the Alexa Skills Kit Get Started button
+    <ul>
+      <li>Locate the skill for which you would like Launch Request support</li>
+      <li>Click the “View Skill ID” link and copy the ID</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+<p>The configuration is the same as an intent with the exception being you will use your skill ID instead of the intent name.</p>
+<div class="language-yaml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="s">intent_script</span><span class="pi">:</span>
+  <span class="s">amzn1.ask.skill.08888888-7777-6666-5555-444444444444</span><span class="pi">:</span>
+    <span class="s">action</span><span class="pi">:</span>
+      <span class="s">service</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">script.turn_on</span>
+      <span class="s">entity_id</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">script.red_alert</span>
+    <span class="s">speech</span><span class="pi">:</span>
+      <span class="s">type</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">plain</span>
+      <span class="s">text</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">OK</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
 <h2><a class="title-link" name="giving-alexa-some-personality" href="#giving-alexa-some-personality"></a> Giving Alexa Some Personality</h2>
 <p>In the examples above, we told Alexa to say <code class="highlighter-rouge">OK</code> when she successfully completed the task. This is effective but a little dull! We can again use <a href="/topics/templating/">templates</a> to spice things up a little.</p>
 <p>First create a file called <code class="highlighter-rouge">alexa_confirm.yaml</code> with something like the following in it (go on, be creative!):</p>

sitemap.xml

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 </url>
 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/demo/frontend.html</loc>
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 </url>
 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/demo/index.html</loc>
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 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/demo/panels/ha-panel-dev-event.html</loc>
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 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/demo/panels/ha-panel-dev-info.html</loc>
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 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/demo/panels/ha-panel-dev-service.html</loc>
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 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/demo/panels/ha-panel-dev-state.html</loc>
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 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/demo/panels/ha-panel-dev-template.html</loc>
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 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/demo/panels/ha-panel-history.html</loc>
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 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/demo/panels/ha-panel-iframe.html</loc>
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 </url>
 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/demo/panels/ha-panel-logbook.html</loc>
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 </url>
 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/demo/panels/ha-panel-map.html</loc>
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 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/googlef4f3693c209fe788.html</loc>
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 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/static/fonts/roboto/DESCRIPTION.en_us.html</loc>
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 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/static/fonts/robotomono/DESCRIPTION.en_us.html</loc>
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 </url>
 <url>
 <loc>https://home-assistant.io/static/mdi-demo.html</loc>
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