When somebody can’t find a guide on how to accomplish a particular task, we here at Hackaday admire those individuals who take it upon themselves to write one for the benefit of others. Instructables user [] couldn’t find a write-up on how to connect Amazon’s Alexa service, and Echo to his Raspberry Pi home security system, so his handy tutorial should get you up to speed for your own projects.
[PatrickD126] shows how loading some software onto the Raspberry Pi is readily accomplished along with enabling Alexa to communicate more directly with the Pi. From there, it’s a matter of configuring your Amazon Web Services account with your preferred voice commands, as well as which GPIO pins you’d like to access. Done! [PatrickD126] notes that the instructions in the guide only result in a temporary solution, but suggests alternatives that would allow your project to operate long-term.
For more advanced users this tutorial is probably rote, but it could save time in a crunch or hackathon scenario. Now all you have to do is connect this project to a typewriter that will allow you to dictate your next report — old school style.
[Thanks for the submission, Patrick D!]
NSA Cloud plz leave
Yep this..
I’d be interested if someone manages to hack the echo so we can run something open source on it. But not inviting Amazon in my house 24×7, nope.
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
It is OpenSource, works offline and works on RPi, but not on Alexa(yet) but seed studio has a product line caled ReSpeaker that supports it if you want Alexa-style microphone with noise cancellation and direction.
please, machine, give surveillance to lana.
http://jasperproject.github.io/ Jasper is quite good.
I watched this with the volume a little too high. My Echo in the other room got very confused. Strange times to be living in.
I really like using Home Assistant (https://home-assistant.io) which uses an emulated Hue Bridge.
I then have the following chain:
Echo -> Hue -> Home Assistant -> MQTT -> ESP8266 (or Arduino, or whatever)
Cool! It works OK but the response is still somehow slow… or average, I guess is the same response time for Siri and Google no?
https://youtu.be/gc2daxC4B_w