# How to send commands to Alexa using Core **URL:** \ **Category:** Devices & Integrations\ **Created:** [June 9, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/how-to-send-commands-to-alexa-using-core/89562 "2017-06-09T14:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sergio\_Ferreira](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/sergio_ferreira/32/93643_2.png) [@Sergio\_Ferreira](https://community.smartthings.com/u/Sergio_Ferreira)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/how-to-send-commands-to-alexa-using-core/89562/1 "2017-06-09T14:04:09Z")
Is there a way to send a command such as ‘Alexa play’ using core? ---
**Author:** ![MichaelS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MichaelS](https://community.smartthings.com/u/MichaelS)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/how-to-send-commands-to-alexa-using-core/89562/2 "2017-06-09T14:14:29Z")
At this time, not directly…Adrian would have to create a skill that interfaces with Alexa and ST. Ask Alexa does have this ability and WebCore will integrate with Ask Alexa in the very near future (basic functionality is already there). You can read more here: > [@\[NO LONGER SUPPORTED\] Ask Alexa](https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-ask-alexa/46786): > > All, this is a new thread from my conversation in the Alexa Helper area ([[RELEASE] Alexa Helper](https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-alexa-helper/29380)) I am officially announcing my new Ask Alexa Smart App. This is what a lot of us have been looking for when it was announced that SmartThings would work with the Amazon Echo (‘Alexa’). Unfortunately, the integration was one-way and limited. You could not query your devices to find out their status, and you had NO access to modes, SHM or routines. I attempted to fill the gap with Alexa Helper, and it did a great job at giving you additional control over items using simple on/off commands. I even got into the ‘feedback’ piece by sending a voice output to a Sonos speaker. But, I always felt this was a ‘hack’…why ask a speaker (Alexa) to report out on another speaker. Well, with the guidance of @N… ---
**Author:** ![SBDOBRESCU](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/sbdobrescu/32/30067_2.png) [@SBDOBRESCU](https://community.smartthings.com/u/SBDOBRESCU)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/how-to-send-commands-to-alexa-using-core/89562/3 "2017-06-09T16:56:44Z")
> [@Sergio\_Ferreira](#): > > Is there a way to send a command such as ‘Alexa play’ using core? There is no way, at this time, to send a command to Alexa to do anything without using your voice to wake up Alexa first (or if you use a 3rd party app that allows you to wake up Alexa via a text input). With that being said. Integrating Alexa with webCoRE requires a ‘skill’ either a smart home skill as the one officially supported by SmartThings, or one of the 3 community created custom skills (AskHome, Ask Alexa or EchoSistant). @ady624 is planning to allow pistons to push messages to EchoSistant, which in return can convert that into a command ready to be used once Alexa is awake…But that is all you can do at this time 😄 ---
**Author:** ![SBDOBRESCU](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/sbdobrescu/32/30067_2.png) [@SBDOBRESCU](https://community.smartthings.com/u/SBDOBRESCU)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/how-to-send-commands-to-alexa-using-core/89562/4 "2017-06-09T16:59:50Z")
> [@MichaelS](#): > > Adrian would have to create a skill that interfaces with Alexa and ST. Even if @ady624 creates a skill, he will not be able to send a command to Alexa such as ‘Alexa play’… right? Ask Alexa cannot do that either… ---
**Author:** ![MichaelS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MichaelS](https://community.smartthings.com/u/MichaelS)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/how-to-send-commands-to-alexa-using-core/89562/5 "2017-06-09T17:29:02Z")
It depends…Ask Alexa CAN play music on Sonos speakers…to play music on the Alexa…no, that is NOT possible from any skill I know of. ---
**Author:** ![SBDOBRESCU](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/sbdobrescu/32/30067_2.png) [@SBDOBRESCU](https://community.smartthings.com/u/SBDOBRESCU)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/how-to-send-commands-to-alexa-using-core/89562/6 "2017-06-09T17:35:21Z")
> [@MichaelS](#): > > Ask Alexa CAN play music on Sonos speakers… 🙂 But CoRE CAN do that without using Ask Alexa or EchoSistant. 🙂 Sorry for picking on you, but the question was “How to send commands to Alexa using Core” not how to send commands to Sonos using Core… ---
**Author:** ![MichaelS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MichaelS](https://community.smartthings.com/u/MichaelS)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/how-to-send-commands-to-alexa-using-core/89562/7 "2017-06-09T18:17:32Z")
No worries. Not feeling picked on. If you are talking Sonos then yes…Core can do that natively. Sorry for the confusion.