Track Alexa Media Player HACS parity for Alexa shopping/to-do lists

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Goal

Expose the Alexa shopping list in Home Assistant as a native todo entity without running both the core Alexa Devices integration and the HACS Alexa Media Player integration.

Context

Home Assistant 2026.7 added shopping, to-do, and custom-list support to the core Alexa Devices integration:

• Home Assistant 2026.7 release notes
• Alexa Devices integration
• Home Assistant To-do integration

This configuration already relies on Alexa Media Player for Alexa media and announcement functionality. As of Alexa Media Player v5.15.7, it does not expose a todo platform; the list-related push commands are still treated as unsupported. The older upstream report alandtse/alexa_media_player#1190 documents the list-change push event.

Running both integrations would create two Amazon sessions and overlapping device polling/authentication. Avoid installing the core Alexa Devices integration solely for shopping-list access while waiting to see whether Alexa Media Player reaches feature parity.

Tracking decision

• Monitor Alexa Media Player releases and pull requests for native shopping/to-do list support.
• Prefer one Alexa integration rather than maintaining both indefinitely.
• If Alexa Media Player exposes the list as a standard Home Assistant todo entity, use that entity directly.
• If upstream decides not to support lists, revisit a deliberate migration to the core integration instead of silently adding a second permanent integration.

Intended use

The initial consumer only needs the number of incomplete shopping-list items for a concise daily household summary. Home Assistant already represents a todo entity's state as the incomplete-item count, so no list-item synchronization or duplicate template sensor should be necessary.

Acceptance criteria

• Alexa Media Player exposes the Alexa shopping list as a Home Assistant todo entity.
• Adding, completing, and removing an item in Alexa updates the entity reliably.
• The entity state matches the number of incomplete items.
• The solution does not require the core Alexa Devices integration to run alongside Alexa Media Player.
• The open-item count is available to the daily summary workflow.
• Relevant package documentation and tests are updated when implemented.

Upstream watch links

• Alexa Media Player releases
• Alexa Media Player issues
• Alexa Media Player pull requests