Category: Alexa Connected Devices Smart Home Skill Tutorial

Smart Home Skills provide a simple way for you to enable Alexa voice interaction to control and check the status of cloud-connected devices. For example, customers can simply say, “Alexa, turn on the kitchen lights” or “Alexa, turn up the heat downstairs” and Alexa will communicate directly with your Smart Home device.

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AWS Alexa Smart Home Skill: test your skill in dev and manage log – 7

I bought an Alexa device and since then I don’t want to press a button anymore and I want to turn all my devices into voice control.
We have reached the last phase, now we have to go and test our smart home skill on a device, this must first be enabled and linked to your Amazon developer account.

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AWS Alexa Smart Home Skill: load sample code and test Lambda – 6

I bought an Alexa device and since then I don’t want to press a button anymore and I want to turn all my devices into voice control. So I start this tutorial to explain how to create a simple custom Smart Home Skill.
In this article we upload the Lambda sample code, it must first be packaged and then uploaded to AWS as a function code.

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AWS Alexa Smart Home Skill: setup the DynamoDB database – 5

I bought an Alexa device and since then I don’t want to press a button anymore and I want to turn all my devices into voice control. So I start this tutorial to explain how to create a simple custom Smart Home Skill.
Now It’s time to create a new Amazon DynamoDB Table that will hold the state of the virtual switch.

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AWS Alexa Smart Home Skill: configure lambda for the skill – 4

I bought an Alexa device and since then I don’t want to press a button anymore and I want to turn all my devices into voice control. So I start this tutorial to explain how to create a simple custom Smart Home Skill.
In this article we are going to connect our Skill to the Lambda.