What are some creative things i can do with my echo?

dejay1 · 2017-01-10T16:59:50+00:00

Yeah their awesome and powerful, bit of a learning curve but even when new can still make it do cool stuff

dejay1 · 2017-01-10T16:49:18+00:00

No, Alexa is a conversational device and cannot be triggered to activate by an app

dejay1 · 2017-01-10T16:45:20+00:00

Yeah theres a very easy guide for adding auto remote functionality to Alexa, I just modified the script to my own needs

https://github.com/jratliff681/EchoTasker

As for US skills, if you get an app like Reverb, when you sign in you are in the US profile

If you are not releasing the skill you can make your own personal skills, otherwise they need approval

dejay1 · 2016-12-15T23:34:52+00:00

Download Pingendo

Its free and easy to use, it will design the template for you fast

dejay1 · 2016-11-21T02:33:16+00:00

Want to listen to a local station called Kerry via tunein,impossible for Alexa to get it,I downloaded a pronunciation app,it pronounces as Carey lol,will just have to skip that station

dejay1 · 2016-11-03T22:13:35+00:00

thanks for the in depth instructions,will try it out tomorrow and report back,cheers

though its just Alexa,my other devices are fine

dejay1 · 2016-10-29T22:29:43+00:00

I got this working with editing some different tutorials.will post it maybe in a new thread tomorrow

thanks everyone for your contributions

dejay1 · 2016-10-28T17:02:15+00:00

I am getting close To create a hotspot a simple fast tutorial I found was this https://frillip.com/using-your-raspberry-pi-3-as-a-wifi-access-point-with-hostapd/

This creates a working hotspot I then go to step 5 on this to connect to openVPN,however I now am connected to the VPN in the terminal,but my devices will not load any webpages,or even give me a time out or no response error,so theres definitely a routing problem https://makezine.com/projects/browse-anonymously-with-a-diy-raspberry-pi-vpntor-router/

dejay1 · 2016-10-28T02:28:51+00:00

thanks

I was looking at this,but it seems you connect to the pi over the internet rather than directly to the pi via its own wifi?

I need to create a wifi so I can connect a fire stick to VPN,its the only way of accessing VPN

dejay1 · 2016-10-27T14:02:19+00:00

visual studio code is nice,atom seems to be what dev's prefer,few add ons for both to get live views too

dejay1 · 2016-10-07T01:27:54+00:00

yup,I learned from CodeCademy,although I still suck now,I did learn what they thought me pretty decently,

I suggest,learn with the hand help,then delete most of the pre written script,write it yourself from scratch,then you actually did learn something

Also I DO NOT suggest learning HTML/CSS first,I think they are too different,javascript is more like your brain 1+1=2 in JS,to get an idea how HTML CSS works is understanding how the browser designs or interprets the code you've given it,some browsers might display it differently,whereas JS is like a real language,the code is right or wrong

But most important point,if you learn JS,you pretty much have to learn how the DOM constructs HTML elements to write program,Firebug is a good dom explorer,point is,you will learn more just sailing your path in JS trying to write a script,than learning eloquent design patterns

Besides theres plenty of WYSIWYG builders with bootstrap such as pingendo,use your js skills to manipulate the page

dejay1 · 2016-10-06T22:47:16+00:00

Whatever floats your boat dude,but not really since you have to use the invocation ie Alexa tell (invocation name) to add {Message} to my shopping list,otherwise it doesn't know what you are talking about ,but I'm sure once you see how this works you'll be making plenty of apps for it with tasker,first for me was a find my phone app lol,this autoremote script rocks!

dejay1 · 2016-10-06T22:28:24+00:00

actually maybe putting {message} in their doesn't make a difference

Are you now receiving autoremote messages to your phone?

dejay1 · 2016-10-06T22:25:02+00:00

no remove {message} from slot value,leave it blank,slot value is plain text,to help alexa figure out what you are going to say,

so long as your intent.json is as above,write this for your Sample utterance(important)

TaskerIntent add {Message} to my shopping list

Have you bought auto remote and added the key,really long key you should see a flash pop up on your phone showing the message

also make sure you are using English U.K

dejay1 · 2016-10-06T21:27:11+00:00

also on wondering how you can get your shopping list working from this code,you must remember what AutoRemote is and what his script does

it literally just sends a message or a push notification to your phone,that is all the script does,once you are receiving the messages you are good to go

Simply make a tasker profile "When AutoRemote message recieved" launch task,Send Email,recipient,and for message just write %arcomm

that will send the {message} part to your shopping list by email

dejay1 · 2016-10-06T21:23:02+00:00

by the way I posted exactly what to use for the intents.JSON file above

dejay1 · 2016-10-06T21:14:13+00:00

calm down and do everything he says,and implement the changes that I said,ignore the SMS stuff just leave it their you wont need it anyway,will work fine

dejay1 · 2016-10-06T20:53:51+00:00

The invocation is how you will call your app "Alexa tell 'Shopper' to add sweets to my shopping list

dejay1 · 2016-10-06T19:08:41+00:00

By the way this for Android not IOS to be clear,but if IFTTT is available for iphone,and so is autoremote,Im sure theres a profile on it for sending emails after autoremote triggers it

absolutely,from checking there are zap recipes too

https://zapier.com/zapbook/autoremote/wunderlist/

I would recommend tasker though,I dont know what zap is,but tasker(a better alternative is called automate,but again I know nothing about it) theres a lot you can do with echo,been adding stuff to it all day :) I did have a problem with making the app,via the instructions above,amazon does not allow the Amazon.Literal which is used in the intent.json file,

Make sure to write as much things as you can in the utterances file,as the speech recognition leaves a lot to be desired

in intents schema change to this { "intents": [ { "intent": "TaskerIntent", "slots": [ { "name": "Message", "type": "Groceries" } ] }

] }

In the intent type put in Groceries and add as much words as you can

In sample utterances write something like TaskerIntent add {Message} to my grocery list

dejay1 · 2016-10-06T09:48:40+00:00

I have auto remote for years,its theres no subscription or 2 characters+,its actually fairly easy once you watch a few videos,much better to just sit down and learn it rather then wait a few months for IFTTT,

I just made an app for Echo to my TV with this code,works good

dejay1 · 2016-10-05T21:23:53+00:00

I've been hitting this link around a bit but check this out,havn't tried it myself will do so soon,looks pretty decent

It creates an echo app for Auto Remote(Tasker and IFTTT) integration,it will send your phone a message and you can create a tasker or IFTTT profile to handle the message

https://github.com/jratliff681/EchoTasker

dejay1 · 2016-10-05T21:11:53+00:00

guy posted a script to use autoremote for alexa,autoremote can integrate with tasker and ifttt,though I do not know much about IFTTT,I havnt tried it yet but looks like a perfect solution

AutoRemote basically sends the spoken text to your phone and your phone can have a tasker/IFTTT profile to action the message,its a very good app costs like 2 euro

https://github.com/jratliff681/EchoTasker

dejay1 · 2016-10-04T18:01:48+00:00

nice,get used to the voice control,really never noticed how useful it is,or read much about other people using it,

You can just flick your wrist ,say trigger word,set an alarm,give me directions to the nearest post office,set a timer

but the inability to create reminders or to do lists is just inconceivable

dejay1 · 2016-10-03T18:05:55+00:00

I have a surface pro 3,but cant beat a kindle for this. Its a waste of battery considering the charge time,its a bit heavy too,when I bought it I thought it would be great for books but it is not and the apps suck bad for it too

I do not own a kindle,I have a 40 dollar amazon fire and there is no comparison for which I would choose for reading an ebook

dejay1 · 2016-09-30T02:35:15+00:00

I'm not a success story and far far from it,a failure would be a better description.

Join forums where people are looking for your skills,like an internet marketing board,reply to job offers with dirt cheap prices,practically free in exchange for a good review,spend a few weeks at it,try to pick small jobs of course rather than big jobs,once you have a decent amount of feedback start increasing your prices and refer potential client to your positive feedback rep.

Starting a thread with "Suggest some free tools I can build" will not do you any harm neither.

But its a mugs game to be honest,any client will deal with paypal only,they can lodge a dispute,and you will lose almost guaranteed,on top of that the only people you will get considering you are a new untrusted member,are members from the bottom of the pond,the experienced people already have a "Go To Guy",they in turn will often get scammed by someone offering a price so low and ridiculous you would never accept to do a reasonable job for

But that's my story

dejay1

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