Amazon Echo

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

Refer to my post in related thread…

Playing around with Amazon Echo (technical interface discussion)

The odds are very good – heck, 100%, but the “completeness (level)” and “quality” of the integration will depend on unknown factors, policies, and strategies of Amazon. Some Random Observations (nothing official or verified, and based on minimal presentation and questions): Based on CURRENT capabilities, many will change, some won’t… Echo can only speak when spoken to (i.e., woken with the wake word, “Alexa” or “Amazon”). This means that the unit cannot be used like a Sonos to play aribitrary alert or informational messages (“The mail has arrived”, “An intruder may be trying to open the front-door.”). Echo could be programmed, however, to answer questions like “Are any of my windows open?”. i.e., it is information upon request only. “Responses” include both spoken (synthesized) res…