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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.
{% linkable_title 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 %} alexa: description: Configuration options for the Amazon Alexa integration. required: false type: map keys: filter: description: Filters for entities to include/exclude from Alexa. required: false type: map keys: include_entities: description: Entity IDs to include. required: false type: list include_domains: description: Domains to include. required: false type: list exclude_entities: description: Entity IDs to exclude. required: false type: list exclude_domains: description: Domains to exclude. required: false type: list {% endconfiguration %}