Amazon Echo might just have Murdered The Ubi

[JDRoberts]

@SBDOBRESCU

Hey Tim, are you still thinking so? LOL Have you gotten one yet? Or do you know if someone made any progress integrating it yet? I am getting mine in couple of days. Finally!

Several community members have official Echo access, others are hacking around, much being done.

Technical discussion here:

Playing around with Amazon Echo (technical interface discussion)

So I got into the Amazon Echo beta SDK, they still don’t want people sharing code and such - so I wanted to share what I can without getting into any details that they shared with us. NOTE: Not going to get into the SDK, docs, code, etc - until they say we can… sorry… if you are in the SDK and PM me I’d be happy to chat I made a quick video of the Echo driving my lights and sonos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_N83OkPBdw You could probably do all this with just a smartthings app, but I used a bridge app to do the communication between smartthings web services and the amazon cloud. I used some smartthings REST API sample code I found to make a quick endpoint to drive my house with oauth for auth. Then made a simple app with just a couple commands; turn on some lights, turn off some …

Nontechnical here:

First Methods for Integrating Echo and SmartThings

BREAKING NEWS AUGUST 21 Official Echo integration is here! And it works great! Please see the new FAQ devoted just to the official SmartThings/Echo integration: And below is the original FAQ showing the various kinds of integration available before the Official version was available. But unless you’re running your own server and want to hack a bunch of stuff, just look at the official one, it’s fantastic. I am quadriparetic, so voice control is very important to me. And I am amazed at the quality of the Amazon Echo farfield voice recognition technology. So I’ve been keeping a close eye on the current state of unofficial integration. I got mine for $99 through the invitation process. It was a several month wait and you needed to be a prime member. It is now available to anyone to o…