To make Alexa's response to thermostat queries even snappier than before, the Honeywell team used proactive state reporting, a new feature
of the Smart Home Skills API, to notify Alexa of any change in state of any Honeywell device, as soon as it happens.
That means plenty
of smart home skills, third - party games, media services, and more.
Today we are excited to introduce entertainment capabilities as part
of the Smart Home Skill API.
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.
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This device's version
of Alexa doesn't have all the same features as Alexa on the Echo, but it can still control
smart home products and take advantage
of Alexa
Skills.
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Microsoft is set to launch Cortana - enabled speakers later this year, and teaming up with Amazon gives Cortana the ability to leverage Alexa's vast trove
of skills, including the ability to control
smart home products and ordering items on Amazon.
This device features the Alexa voice assistant which has thousands
of skills to control your
smart home, play music or give you traffic updates for the morning commute.
Echo Plus has all the Alexa
skills you know and love - so it will do the same things as the other Echos - but it's a much more capable
smart home controller, thanks to the inclusion
of Zigbee.
The Echo Plus is a natural
smart home controller - although all Echo devices have Alexa
skills to support a wide range
of smart home devices, the Echo Plus will discover, name and control those devices that use Zigbee (like Philips Hue) without the need for separate hubs or apps.
Overall, the Alexa
skills marketplace demonstrates a key difference
of the Amazon
smart home technology from Google Assistant or Google H
home technology from Google Assistant or Google
HomeHome.
This means that you can use it to control your
smart home lights, ask it questions, play music, or utilize any
of thousands
of third - party
skills.
With AVS, you can add a new intelligent interface to your products and offer your customers access to a growing number
of Alexa features,
smart home integrations, and
skills.
We've talked about playing back music, Skype calling,
smart home control, and third - party
skills, all
of which have their limitations in their own way, but there are a lot
of things that Cortana is really good at.
Nevertheless, we encourage all
smart home developers to update their skills to take advantage of improvements to the Smart Home Skill API announced t
smart home developers to update their skills to take advantage of improvements to the Smart Home Skill API announced to
home developers to update their
skills to take advantage
of improvements to the
Smart Home Skill API announced t
Smart Home Skill API announced to
Home Skill API announced today.
We've come a long way in the short time that the Alexa
Skills Kit has been available for developers, and we've seen a wide range of unique skills that allow customers to do everything from reorder their favorite morning coffee, stay mindful through meditation, control smart home lighting or check their bank account ba
Skills Kit has been available for developers, and we've seen a wide range
of unique
skills that allow customers to do everything from reorder their favorite morning coffee, stay mindful through meditation, control smart home lighting or check their bank account ba
skills that allow customers to do everything from reorder their favorite morning coffee, stay mindful through meditation, control
smart home lighting or check their bank account balance.
Honeywell built two Alexa
skills using the original
Smart Home Skill API — one for its Total Connect Comfort app that is used to remotely control its thermostats, and one for the newer Lyric line of smart home dev
Smart Home Skill API — one for its Total Connect Comfort app that is used to remotely control its thermostats, and one for the newer Lyric line of smart home devi
Home Skill API — one for its Total Connect Comfort app that is used to remotely control its thermostats, and one for the newer Lyric line
of smart home dev
smart home devi
home devices.
In parallel with today's announcement
of the Echo Plus, we are releasing an update to the Alexa
Smart Home Skill API and our certification processes to enable you to delight your customers with new smart home experie
Smart Home Skill API and our certification processes to enable you to delight your customers with new smart home experien
Home Skill API and our certification processes to enable you to delight your customers with new
smart home experie
smart home experien
home experiences.
In addition to all
of that, there are also Cortana
Skills (third - party integrations) and
smart home functionality.
Your Echo will support some
smart -
home devices out
of the box, but for others you need to first enable a third - party
Skill.
Through AVS, you can add a new intelligent interface to your products and offer customers access to a growing number
of Alexa features,
smart home integrations, and
skills.
Fire it up and any
skills and
smart home connectivity you've added to other Echo devices will be at the ready, as well as music, audiobooks, and
of course, Alexa's bountiful brain.
Logitech takes advantage
of ongoing improvements in the Alexa
Smart Home Skill API.
Device directive: A set
of data and instructions, expressed in JSON, sent from Alexa to a
smart home or video
skill.
In that time it's gained hundreds
of new
skills, learned to talk to dozens
of new
smart home products and, thanks to its new Drop - In function, allow you to chat with anyone, anywhere by calling either their smartphone or Echo device.
This device's version
of Alexa doesn't have all the same features as Alexa on the Echo, but it can still control
smart home products and take advantage
of Alexa
Skills.
Using the
Smart Home Skill API, you can specify a variety
of camera stream attributes, including protocol, resolution, authorization type, and codecs.
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.
The Echo is getting
smarter all the time, thanks to the ability to control multiple
smart home products and a selection
of more than 15,000
skills.
For the full set
of control messages, see the
Smart Home Skill API message reference.
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 h
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
homehome.
This document provides a list
of Alexa devices that can display a camera feed, technical requirements for a camera feed, and details on camera - specific directives and error messages for a
smart home skill targeting cameras.
Of course, Alexa can also individually control any supported devices with Alexa using
Smart Home or custom
skills.
Amazon's Alexa has thousands
of skills available to download, from the likes
of Philips Hue to Just Eat, enabling the assistant to perform various tasks when asked by the user, such as control
smart home devices, order a pizza and read audiobooks.
If you want to pair it up with Alexa, just open the
smart home section of the Alexa app, tap «Get More Smart Home Skills» and search for the Kasa s
smart home section of the Alexa app, tap «Get More Smart Home Skills» and search for the Kasa sk
home section
of the Alexa app, tap «Get More
Smart Home Skills» and search for the Kasa s
Smart Home Skills» and search for the Kasa sk
Home Skills» and search for the Kasa
skill.
Within the same price range, though, there's the Google
Home featuring Google Assistant, although it does not connect with as many
smart devices yet and does not have the long list
of skills Alexa has.
Useful Alexa
Skills are in short supply for Canadians — fortunately, there's an ever - growing list
of smart home products that should work perfectly with Alexa.
While the white Echo Look has a completely different design as the Echo, Echo Dot, and Tap, the Echo Look has all
of the same functionality, such as the ability to check the weather, control
smart home devices, play music, and access Alexa
skills.
You can,
of course, order food and kitchen supplies and interact with simple information and
smart home automation
skills by voice.
The
Smart Home Skill API takes care
of the voice interaction model for you.»
Smart home skills provide a simple way for you to enable Alexa voice interaction to control and check the status
of cloud - connected devices.
Costing $ 35, the Genie is a little bigger than Amazon's Echo Dot, which retails at $ 50, but claims to offer stronger bass and double the volume
of Amazon's equivalent device thanks to a 2W speaker.The Genie's list
of features pretty much tallies with Echo Dot's abilities, so it can play music, control other
smart home devices, order products, answer questions, set calendars, report the weather and news, and more.According to Anker, it's also possible to use the Amazon Alexa app with the Genie to access over 10,000
skills and services, such as Pandora, Domino's Pizza, Uber, ESPN, NPR News, and more.
Samsung has created a range
of smart home appliances, and you can now control them with the Amazon Echo thanks to the Samsung SmartThings Alexa
skill.
Hive is another big name in
smart thermostats, and its Amazon Echo Alexa
skill works in a similar way to Nest's - allowing you to control the temperature
of your
home by simply speaking to Alexa.
The Echo Plus is a natural
smart home controller - although all Echo devices have Alexa
skills to support a wide range
of smart home devices, the Echo Plus will discover, name and control those devices that use Zigbee (like Philips Hue) without the need for separate hubs or apps.
The Alexa integration also makes it easy for customers to access thousands
of third - party
skills, built using the Alexa Skills Kit, including smart home controls through Philips Hue, Belkin Wemo, SmartThings, Insteon, and
skills, built using the Alexa
Skills Kit, including smart home controls through Philips Hue, Belkin Wemo, SmartThings, Insteon, and
Skills Kit, including
smart home controls through Philips Hue, Belkin Wemo, SmartThings, Insteon, and Wink.
Echo Plus has all the Alexa
skills you know and love - so it will do the same things as the other Echos - but it's a much more capable
smart home controller, thanks to the inclusion
of Zigbee.
The assistant can do more than just provide a voice interface to Amazon's retail store, however — it can also control your
smart home, play your music or Kindle books, answer questions, check the news and weather, and take advantage
of Alexa's extensions, known as
Skills.
SMART HOME ECOSYSTEM: As an Alexa enabled device, Sol works seamlessly with a wide range of smart home connected devices and thousands of Alexa sk
SMART HOME ECOSYSTEM: As an Alexa enabled device, Sol works seamlessly with a wide range of smart home connected devices and thousands of Alexa ski
HOME ECOSYSTEM: As an Alexa enabled device, Sol works seamlessly with a wide range
of smart home connected devices and thousands of Alexa sk
smart home connected devices and thousands of Alexa ski
home connected devices and thousands
of Alexa
skills.