jlv
September 17, 2020, 2:19pm
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You just tell webCoRE to make a web request to the voicemonkey URL. See the screen snapshot of the piston portion in the first post here (“Add a new task”):
UPDATE - As of 3/17/2021 the skill has been restored and is working again. From the author of the skill:
Check this link for the latest information from the developer Voice Monkey Status
Original Post:
I wanted to create a post about the Alexa Voicemonkey Skill - https://voicemonkey.io/
In a nutshell, this skill creates a virtual doorbell button that is “pressed” by making a web request. In this scenerio, the web request is made in a webcore piston, so unless there’s some other method to do that, using webcore is necessary.
This skill can be used for two main reasons:
1- Trigger Alexa routines reliably. At the time of this writing, and for weeks now, the current Samsung Alexa skill is not reliable at triggering events on the Alexa side.
2- A hopefully temporary replacement for p…
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