Cloud

The Home Assistant Cloud allows you to quickly integrate your local instance with various cloud services. Any processing of services from other cloud services is handled by your local instance.

To get started, create an account and log in via the configuration panel in your Home Assistant instance. There is no need to configure your router or expose your instance to the internet in any other way.

Amazon Alexa

The Alexa integration allows users to control the entities via the Home Assistant Smart Home skill for Alexa. This means that you can say things like “Alexa, turn on the kitchen light” to control your local instance.

# Example configuration.yaml entry configuring Alexa
cloud:
  alexa:
    filter:
      include_entities:
        - light.kitchen
      include_domains:
        - switch
      exclude_entities:
        - light.living_room
      exclude_domains:
        - script

Configuration Variables

alexa

(map)(Optional)Configuration options for the Amazon Alexa integration.

filter

(map)(Optional)Filters for entities to include/exclude from Alexa.

include_entities: (list)(Optional)Entity IDs to include.
include_domains: (list)(Optional)Domains to include.
exclude_entities: (list)(Optional)Entity IDs to exclude.
exclude_domains: (list)(Optional)Domains to exclude.