[DEPRECATED] Ask Alexa 2.2.4

[MichaelS (Micheal)]

Another Friday update with some small upgrades you can do:

[NO LONGER SUPPORTED] Ask Alexa

It is Friday, and it is time for another Ask Alexa update. It has been an exciting week in the world of home automation, including Alexa…A few weeks ago Amazon released the ‘color’ selection on the native integration. While it doesn’t give you the 150+ colors of Ask Alexa, it is a step in the right direction for the native integration. It will be a great day when the integration even gets to 50% of the abilities on my application. However, I don’t anticipate you will ever get the detailed reporting of your home as it is now in Ask Alexa. In addition, Amazon has released some new tools this week (beta). While really targeted at non-programmers, I recommend NOT going into the beta as I have not updated the instructions yet and if you are a newbie, the difference in screenshots and processes …

[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 …

[MichaelS (Micheal)]

Released a new version today…consider 2.2.4 deprecated…

[DEPRECATED] Ask Alexa 2.2.5

Announcing version 2.2.5 of Ask Alexa Happy Cinco de Mayo (for those in North America!). I am pleased to announce the 2.2.5 version of Ask Alexa. In this version I continue (along with help from the community) to evolve the application to allow more conversational syntax, along with adding more functionality for existing and new devices. This is JUST an IDE update and another couple extensions (Also in the IDE). NO Lambda updates, however, you WILL need to go through Settings>>Setup Variables for the new functionality to operate. This is very important and about 50% of the problems I see are people not updating their slots after an upgrade. And while not required specifically, it is always a good idea to ensure you have the latest utterances. Please note that I updated the Lambda and Mes…