December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 56m
English
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Developing Alexa skill
In the last section, we have seen how to build a smart socket and integrate it with our existing smart weather station. In this section, we are going to build a new skill for interfacing our smart devices with Amazon Alexa.
We are going to create a new skill named smarty app and then add two voice models to it:
- To get the latest weather status
- To turn on/off the socket
If you are new to Alexa and its skill development, I would recommend watching the following series before you continue: Developing Alexa skills: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2KJmkHeYQTO6ci5KF08mvHYdAZu2jgkJ
To give a quick overview of our skill creation, we are going to follow these steps:
- Log in to the Amazon developer portal and create ...