/alexa-home-controller

Control all items in my home from amazon's Alexa

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Alexa-Home-Controller

Control all items in my home from an Amazon Echo (Alexa)

  • This is designed specifically to control exodus within kodi from alexa
  • This is also designed to integrate with mopidy to control music, as its what I use in my home speaker system from my raspberry pi to control the whole house

FAQ

  • Make sure you enable trakt in exodus
  • Set up exodus to mark watched in trakt
  • Upload the custom slots from apps/home
  • Run the server (node server.js) and then hit http://localhost:8081/apps/home and copy the utterances and schema to alexa dev area
  • Open a port on your router to the server, and set it up within alexa
  • Tweak apps/home/index.js to point to your kodi if its not running on localhost

How to Run

  • You need node installed
  • Then run the following commands:
  • npm install -g grunt
  • grunt
  • node server.js
  • Then just ask alexa what ever you named your skill

Leave questions in the issues place and I'll update the readme :P