Application - Alexa

Running Alexa Voice Service on a Raspberry Pi and driving smart-home devices through AWS Lambda and AWS IoT, through to skill certification.

Alexa Logo

Hardware

PRi
Speaker
Microphone

OS

Raspbian

Software

Configure AVS(Alexa Voice Service)
- https://developer.amazon.com/avs/home.html
Connect AVS in your Pi
- git clone https://github.com/novaspirit/AlexaPi/
- Go to AlexaPi, then, run "python main.py"
Software apps and online services:
- Alexa Skills Kit
- AWS Lambda
- AWS IoT
- Alexa Voice Service

Python requirement

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade requests

Configure AWS CLI

pi@raspberrypi:~/projects/rpi/alexa/AWShome $ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
Default region name [None]: us-east-1
Default output format [None]:

Smart home arch

Create the Things using AWS IoT

update awscli version to 1.11.75 above

pi@raspberrypi:~/projects/rpi/alexa/AWShome $ aws iot create-thing --thing-name floor-lamp
usage: aws [options] <command> <subcommand> [parameters]
aws: error: argument command: Invalid choice, valid choices are:

autoscaling                              | cloudformation
cloudfront                               | cloudsearch
cloudsearchdomain                        | cloudtrail
cloudwatch                               | cognito-identity
cognito-sync                             | datapipeline
directconnect                            | dynamodb
ec2                                      | elasticache
elasticbeanstalk                         | elastictranscoder
elb                                      | emr
iam                                      | importexport
kinesis                                  | logs
opsworks                                 | rds
redshift                                 | route53
route53domains                           | sdb
ses                                      | sns
sqs                                      | storagegateway
sts                                      | support
swf                                      | s3api
s3                                       | configure
help

ALEXA Skill submit

ALEXA Skill has passed Amazon certification process

ALEXA Skill Alive

Search my skill in amazon.com

Reference