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

Echo Lambda ?? Home Network For ?? I've tried just making the lambda directly connect to an open port, but this requires me to open the router to quite a large range since lambdas don't have static IPs. I'd like a VPN in ?? I have that for my phone. As I dig into VPC and such it seems like it almost requires an EC2 endpoint for me to VPN into from my network which will NAT the request? I'd like to not have to pay for…

You should be able to setup a vpn from aws to your home. The lambda can be assigned to the vpc, then you setup a virtual private gateway, a customer gateway (which points at the public ip of your home vpn endpoint),and a vpn connection. If you dont have bgp for routing, then you'll need to setup the static route on the subnet the lambda was assigned to. I havent done this exact thing before, but it should work.

Re: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

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I guess I don't want a socket listening. If AWS would publish their subnets maybe I could limit it to those addresses. It sure seems like they could keep their subnets dynamic and accommodate something like this but I guess not.

They do [1]. In JSON. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges....

Nice! Okay hrmmm

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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 suppor…

That is strange. Especially considering the original echo has a volume ring on the top for manual volume adjustment. I'm surprised the echo show is voice only and doesn't include a touchscreen. Thank you for the heads up.

To clarify the Echo Show does have a touch screen, but they may as well have not added it for all the use it provides.
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