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An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

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Re: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

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Post by fergyfresh »

th0ma5 wrote: post #4

Would be nice if there was a VPN mechanism for Lambdas such I could securely connect to my home network from them... perhaps port knocking or the single-packet equivalent... I don't want to open my listener to the world when I already have a suitable UDP based thing going on with VPN....... EDIT: woops... maybe you can? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46329464/can-an-aws-lamb...

Use Flask-Ask and Zappa and deploy to AWS Lambda. I use that setup and have been running for free on AWS infra for about 6 months now.

Re: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

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Post by th0ma5 »

dm7 wrote: post #5
th0ma5 wrote: post #4

Would be nice if there was a VPN mechanism for Lambdas such I could securely connect to my home network from them... perhaps port knocking or the single-packet equivalent... I don't want to open my listener to the world when I already have a suitable UDP based thing going on with VPN....... EDIT: woops... maybe you can? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46329464/can-an-aws-lamb...

ngrok.com

that requires a fourth party involved

Re: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

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Post by th0ma5 »

fergyfresh wrote: post #11
th0ma5 wrote: post #4

Would be nice if there was a VPN mechanism for Lambdas such I could securely connect to my home network from them... perhaps port knocking or the single-packet equivalent... I don't want to open my listener to the world when I already have a suitable UDP based thing going on with VPN....... EDIT: woops... maybe you can? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46329464/can-an-aws-lamb...

Use Flask-Ask and Zappa and deploy to AWS Lambda. I use that setup and have been running for free on AWS infra for about 6 months now.

oh i guess i didn't explain my use case enough... i'll deploy to lambda, but then i want lambda to ask about or control things around my house

Re: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

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Post by oulipo »

If you care about your privacy, you can also build your own 100% on-device Voice AI for free using https://snips.ai (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder)

We are building an open-source and 100% private-by-design Voice AI platform, and you can code your first private assistant in less than 1h: https://medium.com/snips-ai/building-a-voice-controlled-home...

Re: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

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Post by saamm »

chishaku wrote: post #6

Flask-ask makes it pretty easy. https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask

Yes! I recently adapted a project of mine to be available as an Alexa skill, and it only took ~40 lines to get it working [0].

0: https://github.com/ssaamm/pun-generator/compare/24188aceb3da...

Re: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

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Post by kingbirdy »

oulipo wrote: post #15

If you care about your privacy, you can also build your own 100% on-device Voice AI for free using https://snips.ai (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder) We are building an open-source and 100% private-by-design Voice AI platform, and you can code your first private assistant in less than 1h: https://medium.com/snips-ai/building-a-voice-controlled-home...

The platform looks interesting, but the fact that you're offering an ICO makes me immediately wary of your company.

Re: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

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Post by jon-wood »

gnufied wrote: post #2

I own several Echo devices and programmability of Alexa devices just baffles me. There is still no way for a skill to read notifications. For example - I want to write a calendar notification app which unifies all calendar events across several sources and there is just no way to do it. It is of course disabled in the name of privacy which I can understand - but I don't understand how I can't enable this for a device…

The Echo Show is a horrible disappointment. I got one when they were released in the UK because it seemed the perfect thing to keep in the kitchen, but it’s crippled beyond usefulness.

My primary use case was going to be watching Netflix with voice control. Netflix has yet to appear on the Show, and because of Amazon’s zealot like insistence that everything be driven by a voice UI there’s no web browser or app support. The thing is clearly running some version of Android, I wish they’d just bite the bullet and throw FireOS proper on there.

Re: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

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Post by ryall »

th0ma5 wrote: post #14
fergyfresh wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use Flask-Ask and Zappa and deploy to AWS Lambda. I use that setup and have been running for free on AWS infra for about 6 months now.

oh i guess i didn't explain my use case enough... i'll deploy to lambda, but then i want lambda to ask about or control things around my house

Not sure if I understand what you're after, but AWS offers private API Gateway's now

Re: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

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Post by miketery »

kingbirdy wrote: post #17
oulipo wrote: post #15

If you care about your privacy, you can also build your own 100% on-device Voice AI for free using https://snips.ai (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder) We are building an open-source and 100% private-by-design Voice AI platform, and you can code your first private assistant in less than 1h: https://medium.com/snips-ai/building-a-voice-controlled-home...

The platform looks interesting, but the fact that you're offering an ICO makes me immediately wary of your company.

Agreed.

The true crypto use case - raising money without consequences. A shitty use case, but one none the less.

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