philchillbill wrote: > Amazon has just announced an upcoming capability that will effectively > have your Echo act as a proxy server for smart home skills to control > devices in your local network. Info is scarce but I've applied to beta > test it (no idea if I will be selected). If it works the way I think it > will work then it would mean zero setup for controlling LMS by Alexa. > Just install the skill, have it talk to your Echo(s) and have the > Echo(s) perform the actual jsonrpc.js calls on your local network. My > guess is 3-12 months before this is live. > > See the section titled "Faster and Offline Device Control with Local > Smart Home Skills" at > https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/device-makers/2020/09/Build-a-More-Proactive-and-Intelligent-Smart-Home-with-Alexa.
It would be great if this were extended to support discontinued products (as squeezebox) and open-source projects like WLED, the most valuable effect would being able to use 'smart' devices with alexa even after their manufacturer goes belly-up and takes their servers with them. (like Best buy's insignia products) I mostly use my squeezeboxes as radio's and only use mysqueezebox.com, wouldn't itbe possible to directly control the on/off, volume, channel from alexa with this, bypassing LMS? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pacc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111443 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
