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alexa_media_player
This is a custom component to allow control of Amazon Alexa devices in Home Assistant using the unofficial Alexa API.
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home-assistant-variables
A custom Home Assistant component for declaring and setting generic variable entities dynamically.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
The next part is a bit tricky, especially if you don't have Alexa configured in Home Assistant. I won't cover this here because it would make this blog post too long and the documentation from the Alexa Media Player component is good enough to get you started.
As you can see, I have the latest articles returned with their title and id because these are the only fields I requested. For my scenario I need the first one because that is the latest article. Now I am going to use a HACS component called "home-assistant-variables". Go ahead and install this, because we're going to save the id in a variable.