Tutorial:
Build a Smart Home Add-on
Build a Smart Home Add-on
Step 1: Create a Smart Home Add-on
Smart home skills are now called smart home add-ons. No action is needed, and your existing integration will continue to operate normally.
Now that you have an overview of the tutorial steps and have fulfilled the prerequisites, you're ready to create a smart home add-on. When you create a new smart home add-on, you enable Alexa to invoke your add-on to fulfill a user request to control a smart home device. In this step, you create a new smart home add-on in the Alexa developer console. You configure the add-on in later steps.
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Create a new add-on
In this step, you create a new add-on, and then choose the smart home pre-built voice interaction model and backend resources.
To create a new smart home add-on in the Alexa developer console
- If you haven't already, create an Amazon developer account.
- Sign in to the Alexa developer console.
- On the Skills tab, choose Create Skill.
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On the Create a new skill page, provide the following information:
- For 1. Name your Skill, enter my-smart-home-add-on.
- For 2. Choose a primary locale, choose English(US), and then choose Next.
- For 1. Choose a type of experience, select Smart Home.
- For 2. Choose a model, select Smart Home.
- For 3. Hosting services, select Provision your own, and then choose Next.
- Review your selections, and then choose Create skill.
- On the Smart Home page, under Smart Home service endpoint, find the skill ID for your new add-on.
- Next to Your Skill ID, choose Copy to Clipboard to save your skill ID.
- In a convenient place, such as Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on Mac, paste the skill ID.
You use this value in Step 2: Implement the Add-on Code .
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You come back to the developer console to configure Smart Home service endpoint in Step 3: Configure the service endpoint. And, you come back to configure Account Linking in Step 4: Set up Account Linking.
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Last updated: May 01, 2026
