Amazon Alexa in Home Assistant
alexa
part of Home Assistant since 0.10
Amazon Alexa is an official Home Assistant integration for Voice. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud; changes arrive straight away, but only while the internet connection and the service are up.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, push – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud; changes arrive straight away, but only while the internet connection and the service are up.
- Setup
- in configuration.yaml
- Kind
- Part of Home Assistant itself
- Installations
- 10,353 (1.5 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Voice
- Provides
- Diagnostics
- Maintained by
- @home-assistant/cloud, @ochlocracy, @jbouwh
Setup
- Nothing to install: this is part of Home Assistant and available as soon as it is running.
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 2 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Amazon Alexa in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.9.3.
Open
- open Reported problem #182061
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.9.3 Bug fix #182209
- fixed in 2026.5.2 Bug fix #170354
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 15, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Compatible devices
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration