I’ve recently updated my setup at home, finally doing away with HA-Bridge and I thought you might like to see this simple setup. So for beginners, HA-Bridge is a piece of software (a very nice piece of software) that runs on for example a Raspberry Pi, who’s job (in my…
Category: alexa
Sunday Alexa Post
WELL! You learn something new every day. Just had a call from a pal of mine (we both have multiple Amazon Alexa units around the house). Not only can you now call the thing “computer” – but one can now call the other… so “Alexa, call house” rings the house…
More Alexa Marvels
Some of you may recall that in the dim and distant past, Aidan and I wrote a SKILL for Amazon’s Alexa – which let us do anything by simply passing the speech back to Node-Red… and we could sent text as speech to Alexa. Well, that relied on SSL port…
AlexaPi and a Warning
It’s been a busy week already – I’ve been saving up a load of “Can we write articles for your blog?” emails and this morning I decided to take a look. The sample articles were ATTROCIOUS and now I know why so many articles are bad out there – they…
Alexa Node Red and SSL
It’s running. I’m very chuffed. Yesterday I picked up my Amazon Dot – which is basically the big ECHO unit without the big speaker – it has a little one instead. What is Alexa? Before I go any further – let me backtrack for those who’ve been in – well,…
A Quickie on Itead and CE
I recall a couple of questions in earlier blogs about Itead (Sonoff) and CE. Well, they’ve just written to me to confirm that “CE marking on Sonoff products does mean Conformity European, not China Export.” which should set some minds at ease – they also sent me the test reports.…
Another Weekend of Experiments
I’ve just been up to Northern Spain with a friend and our wives looking at some property up there and when we got to our hotel and got the wine open, Aidan showed me his new toy – Amazon Echo. The Echo Moment Well, I was so excited I’ve ordered…