[DEPRECATED] Ask Alexa 2.2.4

[MichaelS (Micheal)]

An another Friday update:

[NO LONGER SUPPORTED] Ask Alexa

Here is my Friday update. I have been out of pocket this week (in lovely Madison WI eating cheese), but it allowed me to focus a LOT on Ask Alexa and some of the new features. I figured I put in about 3 weeks worth of work in 5 days simply from the fact I was not at home and didn’t have ‘cat duties’ or any other responsibilities to distract me Anyway, it was another ‘interesting’ week in home automation. Last week the big news was the multi-user config for Google Home. After testing this myself, it is kind of a ‘meh’…while ‘neat’ it really doesn’t give any benefit to the developers as the ‘person identifier’ is not accessible when creating the Google equivalent to a ‘skill’. I have a version of ‘Ask Alexa’ working for Google Home, but it is even more complicated to install …