So I tried searching for this… but forgive me if its already been discussed…:
I’d like to include Alexa skills in a SmartThings routine, like “Alexa, turn on Party Time” and have my lights change and an Amazon Music channel start to play (among other things.)
The only way I cna think of (and maybe not 100% reliable but I have tried it for fun…) is to have a speaker next to Alexa that speaks the command based on certain triggers (e.g. routine).
Your subject line seems to indicate you want SmartThings to control your Alexa, but it would be the Alexa controlling SmartThings. While you can do the control with Ask Alexa, having it play music from your Amazon Library would require another command as the ‘skill’ can’t access the core pieces of Alexa.
and this produces exactly as per this video with the exception i say Alexa Turn on Party Mode as “Party Mode” is the name of a virtual switch, tasker then does the rest
however is you used the following components for a purely Smarthings Solution this would work also
Amazon Alexa
SharpTools
Tasker
Hue Disco App
LANnouncer
Sonos (optional could plug amp into Tablet output instead)
Android Tablet (Preferably Wall Mounted)