Note that a skill built with the Smart
Home Skill API can respond only to the requests (device directives) supported by the API.
Skills that use the Smart
Home Skill API or Video Skill API must use account linking (with the authorization code grant flow) to connect the Alexa user with their device cloud account.
To support this, we've added new cameras capability to the Smart
Home Skill API.
With Amazon's Smart
Home Skill API already being adopted by manufacturers, we expected plenty more will follow soon and we'll update this piece when we hear of any new ones.
If you connect using the internet, you'll create an Alexa skill using the Smart
Home Skill API in the Alexa Skills Kit and a cloud - based service for communicating with your device.
Your skill can expose any device capability defined in the Smart
Home Skill API, and must be able to communicate with your device via the internet.
Because the Smart
Home Skill API taps into Amazon's standardized Alexa language model, you won't need to build the voice interaction model for your camera skill.
Skill adapter directive language: JSON protocol that enables communication between the Alexa Smart
Home Skill API and a skill adapter.
The updated version of the Smart
Home Skill API makes it easy for you to support these and other Alexa smart home experiences with your devices.
Device discovery: Process by which the Alexa Smart
Home Skill API discovers the devices that can be controlled through a skill adapter.
Our blog post, How to Migrate Your Alexa Skill to the Updated Smart
Home Skill API, describes the process step - by - step.
The updated Smart
Home Skill API will be the basis for all future smart home enhancements.
Skills using the updated Smart
Home Skill API can be submitted for certification now.
For a smart home skill, you write a skill adapter that translates commands from the Alexa Smart
Home Skill API to the device cloud.
To enable this frictionless customer experience, the Arlo team built a skill for Alexa using the new camera capabilities in the Smart
Home Skill API.
However, describing food takes Alexa to a new level with the Smart
Home Skill API.
If you are using the Smart
Home Skill API, you use Lambda to create a skill adapter.
This was done to prove that enabling account linking with the Smart
Home Skill API does not require code.
Providing a seamless and more responsive customer experience during complex transactions like this is where the updated Smart
Home Skill API shines,» says Rothfusz.
The company started with a custom skill to control locks, and later built a smart home skill using the Smart
Home Skill API when the API added support for locks.
To handle transactions like this while still providing immediate feedback to the user, the updated Smart
Home Skill API allows developers to send asynchronous messages to Alexa directly from your own device cloud.
Connected and controlled by your skill that uses the Smart
Home Skill API and is published in the skill store.
In addition, GE Appliances, Kenmore, LG, and Samsung are working on using the cooking capabilities in the Smart
Home Skill API to let customers control their ovens and more appliances using Alexa in the future.
The updated Smart
Home Skill API released last month makes it easy for you to support these experiences with your devices.
If you provide devices certified via the Works with Amazon Alexa (WWAA) program, you must ensure your applicable products are compatible with the updated Smart
Home Skill API and the new features by December 31, 2017 to retain eligibility to use the WWAA badge.
Most importantly, the Echo's Smart
Home Skill API is becoming the center point through which many other smart home devices can work together.
Today we are happy to announce that the Alexa Smart
Home Skill API entertainment device controls are available in the UK.
Enable customers to view live video feeds from their smart home cameras on Echo Show and Echo Spot with the new cameras capability in the Smart
Home Skill API.
But what has really propelled Amazon's Alexa forward as a bona fide platform, not just intelligent software behind a few connected speakers, is the Smart
Home Skill API.
If you don't have a smart home skill for your products, or your products don't work with Echo Plus or a hub that has a smart home skill that meets the WWA requirements, you will need to create a smart home skill using the Smart
Home Skill API.
The Smart
Home Skill API takes care of the voice interaction model for you.»
So Ring's development team built a skill for Alexa using the new camera capabilities in the Smart
Home Skill API.
When Amazon introduced the Alexa Smart
Home Skill API, Nick Dalsin, Honeywell's director of partner development, saw an opportunity to give consumers more choice in how they control Honeywell devices in their home.
According to the online retail giant, the company will be introducing «cooking capabilities» to Alexa's Smart
Home Skill API.
The Smart
Home Skill API supports single, dual, and triple setpoint thermostats, as well as mode query and control.
For the full set of control messages, see the Smart
Home Skill API message reference.
Using the Smart
Home Skill API, you can specify a variety of camera stream attributes, including protocol, resolution, authorization type, and codecs.
Device discovery: Process by which the Alexa Smart
Home Skill API or Video Skill API discovers the devices that can be controlled with a skill.
When using the Smart
Home Skill API, the API defines the requests the skill can handle (device directives) and the words the users say to make those requests.
For a smart home skill, you write code hosted as a Lambda function that translates commands from the Alexa Smart
Home Skill API to the device cloud.
The Smart
Home Skill API defines the requests the skill can handle (device directives) and the words users say to invoke those requests (utterances).
All voice interactions with the user are handled by the Smart
Home Skill API.
The Smart
Home Skill API translates utterances such as «turn on the lights» into device directives that it routes to a lambda function that can control a cloud - enabled device.
For a skill that controls smart home devices such as lights, thermostats, and entertainment devices you can use the Smart
Home Skill API.
First, the updated Smart
Home Skill API will support microwave ovens.
Logitech takes advantage of ongoing improvements in the Alexa Smart
Home Skill API.
Initially, Logitech built two skills: one using the Smart
Home Skill API that allowed customers to turn Activities and devices on and off, and a second custom skill for changing channels, volume, and similar functions.
They'll be among the first to use the new Smart
Home Skill API's support for ovens, though it's worth noting that those talents won't be in the API initially.
Directive language: JSON protocol that enables communication between the Alexa Smart
Home Skill API and a smart home skill.
When building skills with the Smart
Home Skill API, you may have found it challenging to test and validate your skill's Lambda responses.