Choose how to connect your devices, which capabilities to expose, and whether to write your
own smart home skill.
Today we are happy to announce that the
Alexa Smart Home Skill API entertainment device controls are available in the UK.
«This next development
in Smart Home Skill API support for ovens will enable our owners to give shorter, simpler commands to their June Ovens and receive updates on their food as it is cooking.»
The
updated Smart Home Skill API released last month makes it easy for you to support these experiences with your devices.
Amazon has announced a
new Smart Home Skill API for Alexa - enabled devices that will allow consumers to control AV equipment such as TVs, speakers and AV receivers using Alexa voice control.
«The updated
August smart home skill immediately tells Alexa it received the command and has sent it to be processed,» says Rothfusz.
Join
smart home skills developers including Ring, Arlo, Philips Hue, IKEA, Hive, TP - Link, Netatmo, WeMo, Smart Things and Tado in creating engaging experiences to manage devices throughout a connected home via Echo Spot.
«Not only will we
make smart home skills to work with our products, but we'll also start to embed voice right in our products.»
This then allows you to speak to Alexa and command her with your voice;
triggering smart home skills, playing music, adding things to your shopping list, etc..
Smart home skills provide a simple way for you to enable Alexa voice interaction to control and check the status of cloud - connected devices.
Now part of the smart home, consumers will be able to control the projector after enabling the Acer
Projector Smart Home skill by asking Alexa on a device like the Echo or compatible Acer PC, «Alexa, turn on the projector,» «Alexa, select HDMI as the projector source,» or «Alexa, change projector display mode to bright.»
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 skill.
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 devices.
The
Kevo Smart Home Skill gives homeowners the ability to ask Alexa if the door is locked, and lock the door if it is not.
Most smart home skills are designed for specific products from specific companies, such as the Sonos skill for controlling Sonos products.
Like the previously
available smart home skills, you'll have to log in and set these new devices up through the «Manage Skills» portion of Cortana's notebook.
Aside from the aforementioned announcement, the company also took the veil off a new 4K projector which will also work with Alexa via the Acer Projector
Smart Home skill on connected devices like notebooks, PCs, and smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo.
As part of an
expanded Smart Home Skills API, developers will be able to integrate microwave - centric voice commands into devices.
To help ease these pain points, we've built the
Alexa Smart Home Skill API Validation Package, available now to all smart home - skill developers.
While Siri is good at ordering food, sending messages and getting directions, it falls behind Alexa and Google Assistant
in smart home skills, general knowledge, online shopping and more.
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.
Marquee integrations with services like Spotify and the New York Times obviously get a great deal of play, and the growing number
of smart home skills are helping more and more people integrate Alexa into their day - to - day, too.
Install the
August Smart Home Skill and view your camera feed on an Alexa Show by saying, «Alexa, show me the front door camera.»
Device discovery: Process by which the Alexa
Smart Home Skill API discovers the devices that can be controlled through a skill adapter.
In the past,
smart home skill developers had to create two skills (one for smart home, the other for custom voice interactions to allow querying data) to provide this overall experience.
Amazon published Alexa's SDK and also released
the Smart Home Skill API to make it significantly easier for developers to integrate new and different skills into Alexa.
Get to know the Alexa
Smart Home Skill API and learn how you can add voice control to your smart devices
Today we announced that we now enable companies to control entertainment devices with
the Smart Home Skill API in the Alexa Skills Kit.
We are happy to announce tunable lighting control, a new feature in
the Smart Home Skill API now available in the US with support for the UK and Germany coming soon.
Use the Alexa Skills Kit and
Smart Home Skill API to quickly integrate your smart home device with Alexa.
Amazon just introduced a new addition to
the Smart Home Skill API for Alexa: cooking.
With Alexa and
the Smart Home Skill API, you can increase customer awareness and engagement with your smart home devices.
Nevertheless, we encourage all smart home developers to update their skills to take advantage of improvements to
the Smart Home Skill API announced today.
Today, we are happy to announce that you can enable customers to view live video feeds from their smart home cameras on Echo Show with
the Smart Home Skill API.