Playing around with Amazon Echo (technical interface discussion)

[zpriddy]

Just as a heads up to everyone… I am moving my progress updates over to

SmartThings and Amazon Echo (Using ASK)

So there are a few other posts that I have been posting in… But I am going to start a new topic to keep track of the progress that I am making in this project and stop spamming the other topics. I have been working on integrating the Echo with SmartThings and I have been making some good progress! UPDATE: For anyone who is interested in using it, Please go to: https://alexa.zpriddy.com Please let me know of any problems you find while using it so I can fix it! Quick Notes: This code is designed to be run on a ‘server’ with port 443 available from the internet (This is a requirement from Amazon). The server can be as small as a RaspberryPi hosted at your house. You will probably need a decent understanding of linux and networking to set it up. [ I am also playing with the idea of all…