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Tutorial maybe?

Open marksev1 opened this issue 8 years ago • 12 comments

Would be nice if you also showed some example flow of how to use those together to create a virtual assistant :D. And maybe post a youtube clip of it in action.

What can I use this alexa for, general questions? Can I use it to control music? How can I leverage some general "skill" or something to interface with node-red to control physical hardware?

marksev1 avatar Jun 24 '16 08:06 marksev1

working on it now

mattotodd avatar Jul 20 '16 21:07 mattotodd

Thanks! :)

marksev1 avatar Jul 26 '16 11:07 marksev1

I vote for a tutorial too. I have no idea how to get this to work even though everything is filled in....

iceblu3710 avatar Oct 01 '16 18:10 iceblu3710

+1

thomfoolery avatar Oct 08 '16 17:10 thomfoolery

Me too. I haven't a clue how to get this working! I'd like to integrate this into our Raspberry Pi setup script (hackittandbodgitt.com) and get it woking with our IOT devices based on the ESP8266 for home automation.

A set of test flows would be nice, plus maybe some info on setting up the security certificates for Amazon to get the two of them talking.

aidanruff avatar Oct 15 '16 12:10 aidanruff

There doesn't seam to be an actual flow file in the mattotodd/node-red-alexa project that you've pointed to for an example.

Any update on some instructions on how to get this to work?

The error message "Error handling alexa request" doesn't really help work out what's wrong.

hardillb avatar Oct 22 '16 12:10 hardillb

I was hoping to use this for alexa to speak any string I send and for Alexa to recognise speech and send the recognised string into node red (the world is then our oyster). Will this do this ? From the documentation, I'm not sure what it does? If not, has anyone else achieved that ????

mikebiddell avatar Jan 16 '17 13:01 mikebiddell

You can’t initiate speech with Alexa at the moment – or at least I haven’t found anyone doing it.

The skill that Pete and I have created takes any text and passes it to node red for processing. I have a skill called ‘the house’, so I can say ‘Alexa, tell the house to turn the office light on’ and it will pass ‘turn the office light on’ to node red to do with whatever I want. You can also reply with whatever you want Alexa to say in response, such as “The office light is now on’

I hope that helps Aidan

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I was hoping to use this for alexa to speak any string I send and for Alexa to recognise speech and send the recognised string into node red (the world is then our oyster). Will this do this ? From the documentation, I'm not sure what it does? If not, has anyone else achieved that ????

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aidanruff avatar Jan 16 '17 14:01 aidanruff

Aidan

Thanks for the info. I am using node-red-contrib-wemo-emulator to provide that functionality.

Cheers

Mike

mikebiddell avatar Jan 16 '17 18:01 mikebiddell

That’s good. I tried that using the emulator on the Pi and one useful item is that you get the IP address back from the calling Alexa. I haven’t managed to do that yet with Amazons API, which stops me doing context dependent stuff like “Alexa, turn the light on” for the room I’m in.

Pete and I are also using HABridge which I prefer to the Wemo emulator as there are more contols.

Fascinating stuff though

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Aidan

Thanks for the info. I am using node-red-contrib-wemo-emulator to provide that functionality.

Cheers

Mike

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aidanruff avatar Jan 17 '17 11:01 aidanruff

It's been more than a year since the first person commented requesting some clues on how to use this. Without some kind of documentation it is unfortunately useless.

swilson86 avatar Jul 21 '17 06:07 swilson86

Anyone managed to get this working? Any tutorial?

vswraith avatar Apr 21 '18 05:04 vswraith