Dude! It totally works! The Echo app doesn’t recognize the device as on, but I was able to make the ST link. Created a “All Lights” group on the Echo app and can now say “Turn all lights OFF” and they turn off. Cool. It lacks a lot of the Echo features, but maybe I’ll look into adding skills through the developer website. No idea how to do that and I’m way over my head, but still.
Interestingly, if I say, “Turn off all lights EXCEPT the Den lights,” it turns off only the Den lights. Not sure why it’s skipping the middle part, but neat as hell, nonetheless. Can’t operate door locks, but I know why they did that - no real voice identification for individuals - a security risk.
Also - now I can’t get it to start again and not sure why, but I’ll keep playing. One of these days I’ll just buy an Echo, but this is fun until I get off my wallet.
As long as you can connect the minimote to the RPi, it seems like it would be a short bit of code to change the HIGH/LOW status of the button pins on the board.
I guess the hard part is having the mic hear you, depending on where you are and what mic you’re using.
What I think would be cool is to somehow create a wireless button / bluetooth mic combo. Nerd points if it looks like a Star Trek communicator pin.