Amazon Echo

[troy (Troy Anderson)]

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 …