[Question] - Can Home Intent access sensor entities?

[thedave42]

I have a weather station integration with Home Assistant and would like to be able to retrieve data from the sensors e.g. be able to ask "what is the outside humidity?" and be able to map that to retrieve the data from the sensor entity sensor.station_outside_humidity.

I have installed Home Intent along side my Rhasspy instance (using an external Rhasspy), and it is able to communicate and share entity information with Home Assistant via Home Intent. But I haven't found a way to interface with the sensor entities in Home Assistant.

Is this something Home Intent does?

[JarvyJ]

Not yet. Originally I didn't really want to add this as auto-pulling in all entities and making all attributes would likely result in a lot of system confusion when you actually are trying to get something done.

Recently, I think it could work similar to "scripts", where users could setup their own sentences and pick a device/attribute to pull back and respond with. This is probably the easiest to get going and most customizable for the user and by language.

Alternatively it could work by doing an "allow" list where you pick entities and attributes and it comes up with the sentences automatically. This would still require some amount of common sentences to be setup, but ends up being a little less work for users.

I might try out some options at some point and see what happens.