No changes are required to
existing smart home skills.
Not exact matches
Either way you get the majority of Amazon's
existing Alexa
skills, including control over your
smart home devices — lights, thermostats, and more, for instance — together with traffic and news reports, weather updates, and even seeing a feed from your connected security cameras on the TV.
While customers can continue to use
skills built on the
existing API, you should update your
Smart Home Skill now to fully support the new experiences and to be ready for future enhancements.
All of that comes in addition to Alexa's
existing capabilities for things like voice - activated alarms, timers, traffic, fact checking, bad jokes and
smart home controls, not to mention the thousands of third - party «
skills» that each let her do something new once you enable them.