Hi here’s the second Alexa + resin.io related hack of the day (the first one was voice search for pictures to display on the Beast). This time I’ve added Raspberry Pi 3 with a SenseHAT, which acts as a temperature/humidity/pressure sensor plus LED display.
Alexa Skills are pretty easy to make (or maybe this first tutorial I’ve seen was too good:), all it really needs is a webserver which answers in an Alexa-specific way.
Here’s the demo of it:
Here the trick I’ve used is running the webserver on the Raspberry Pi/resin.io device itself, and expose that endpoint through the Public Device URL. Thus the skill can be really self-contained, being able to talk to hardware, and managed remotely, all in the same time.
The source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/resin-io-playground/alexasense will need to add more details and readme.
I don’t know, my home already feels a little bit smarter 