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Alexa Control via Indigo?

PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:39 pm
by ckeyes888
Still not seeing anything happening on controlling Alexa, playing music etc., from Indigo Actions.
Anybody know of anything in the works to gain access for control other than voice?

Thanks,

Carl

Alexa Control via Indigo?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 12:50 pm
by mundmc
I have been attentive to the topic of Alexa in general, and I haven’t seen anything allowing direct control, primarily related to authentication issues.

However, many people have gotten creative with an Echo dot and a mac wired or Bluetooth speaker.

For example:

Want Alexa to play a specific song? Have a tiny speaker from your machine running indigo next to an Echo Dot.

Make an action that uses the “say” command in AppleScript, or preferably the indigo.server.speak() command in python.

Make an Action Group “Play song” that runs a script. Keep Indigo Variables for fields to enter.

Indigo Variables
songTitle Mr. Roboto
songArtist Styx
songSource Spotify
songDest kitchen


(Below may not be perfect)

song = indigo.variables[“songTitle”]
artist = indigo.variables[“songArtist”]
source = indigo.variables[“songSource”]

indigo.server.speak(“Alexa,,, Play %s by %s on %s in %” % (song.value, artist.value, source.value, dest.value))
#”Alexa, play Mr. Roboto by Styx on Spotify in kitchen.”
#”Okay, playing yadee yadee in kitchen”

Then you can use control pages, xml, or whatever to insert info into variables, then use the action group.


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Re: Alexa Control via Indigo?

PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:33 pm
by ckeyes888
Thanks. I have tried that with some success...but the lag is a deal breaker for me.

Carl