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kazpet
Australia
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I noticed today Amazon announcement on the Alexa Gadget Toolkit. This may enable a easy interface to use Alexa with EZ-Robots. What do others think of the announcement.
Alexa Gadget Toolkit info
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201971890
I don't want to hear 50 Alexa voices blabbing back at me - or at each other!
"I'm sorry I don't have the chicken skill, please check the skill store to enable chicken" - says the toaster
"Playing Chicken Dance from Amazon music" - the living room dot
"defrosting the freezer" - says the fridge
"Here are local places that serve chicken, would you like me to order you chicken" - says your phone
"Ordering more chicken on your Amazon prime account" - says your watch
"I could not find chicken, would you like to play Jeopardy?" - the bedroom dot
Same issue that Justin described hilariously with a single keyword for all devices, although Google has made some noise (and assistant for Android breakdowns have shown some hints of) that they will be adding custom naming at some point.
Alan
We have multiple Echo Dots setup throughout our home and they used to respond like thetechguru said about Google units all at once, but they had an update and now only one responds, even if you are between two units.
If our rural internet has connectivity issues, and you request something, then they all blurt out together they are having internet trouble.
Alexa has a fairly new skill called blueprints, which allow you to create your own custom responses from Alexa.
I created several, and they are easy, and are published usually fast, the same evening.
I created one,Who is the greatest wife in the world? She answers that she checked all thu history and Steve’s wife is the best.
Artamus questions her, who is your favorite robot? She responds, I have been listening to Artamus, the autobot, and he is very interesting, and I would like to know better.
It is a fun skill.
Alexa Bluprints skill
Steve S
edit: looks like these guys went bust. Probably sued by Amazon Google and IBM :-)
I have Alexa in every room. I converted my house to 100% smart a few years ago. Every switch or every bulb. The only switch that isn’t automated is the upstairs bathroom. Motion detect smart switches everywhere else to.
I love it. I have my Alexas set to respond to Echo though. I got sick of saying Alexa.
Even my Land Rover has an Alexa app. I just tell her to start the car or open the trunk and it’s done.
but for robots? Not sure what it could do. I can ask her to start the vacuum. But that’s about it. What ideas do you have for a robot that Alexa could do?