Bored of tutorials about labda functions and online stuff? Here is a simple way to integrate your Amazon Echo/Dot in your new whatever.
The main part of the project is a Java code edited from Armzilla repo. The Java Server emulates a Hue bridge, it then sends the list of devices to Alexa and when you say Alexa set "whatever" at 50% it sends a request to the Java Server that redirects the request as a JSON to a desired IP or address.
Change log:
- require --upnp.config.address= to be specified during startup
- support more than 25 emulated devices currently set to 75, can be increased at 25 device increments by specifying --emulator.portcount= default is 3 thus 3*25 = 75 total devices. Works by taking emulator.baseport and opening n number of ports sequentially from baseport to baseport+portcount
- relaxed http response codes to anything in the 200 to less than 300 http response codes to support misbehaving resources
other notes: Ive seen some folks able to run this but not able to discover devices. I would recommend checking for devices with duplicate names as i have seen this to cause the echo to reject all devices. The lazy way would be to delete the /data directory and start over.
Change log:
- Using Flask to handle various request with a single server.
- Still developing the detection it seems to work whenever he whats to.
You need to built the Server that is going to run on the Intel Edison or any other platform or use the pre-built one just make sure you use the flags --upnp.config.address and --server.port to override the hardcoded values currently implemented.
Java - java -jar amazon-echo-bridge-*.jar
Maven - mvn spring-boot:run
Examples: --upnp.config.address=192.168.1.240 --server.port=8081
After the application is started and running, you can access the configurator by accessing http://YOURIP:PORT/configurator.html.
Instruct your Amazon Echo to learn about your devices by saying "Alexa, discover my devices" and your all set!
In case you would like to internally configure your own build of the Amazon Echo Bridge, a few requisites are required.
Ubuntu/Linux - sudo apt-get install maven
OS X - Install Homebrew and run brew install maven
For instance, the server defaults to running on port 8080. If you're already running a server (like openHAB) on 8080, you could edit server.port in Java_API_Server/src/main/resources/application.properties to your desired port before building the jar.
Alternatively you could also pass in a command line argument to override server.port.
To build the jar file yourself, make your changes and simply run Maven like this:
mvn install
Then locate the jar and start the server using the instructions above. By default maven will put the jar file in the target directory. java -jar target/amazon-echo-bridge-*.jar
It requires Flask and Request to be installed
Node Server is based on this repo here https://github.com/hortinstein/node-dash-button is required to sense when the button is pressed and then it will send a post to the Python Server
It contains 3 scripts, one for each server, the main function of those scripts is to keep alive the 3 servers, they need to be put into a crontab line and they need to run every minute to keep stuff alive.