Hi,
I’ve been using the integration for this microchip Catflap for a while now and it works really well. My better half has now asked me if I can set it up so it can announce which of the three cats has entered or left the house.
This should be quite simple to do as I use Nabu Casa and the entities (each of the cats) created by the integration show up in the Alexa devices list. The problem is I cannot use any of these Alexa “Devices” to trigger Alexa though, as each of the three integrations, (despite being described as a binary_sensor) gets identified in Alexa as a “camera” device, which it clearly isn’t. This prevents it from being used by any Alexa automation I could use to announce the cat’s name. I have tried adding it manually, and automatically, but it still finds the device and classifies it as a camera - there seems to be no way of editing this within Alexa.
If anybody has any ideas on how to overcome this, I’d be grateful.
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