So far, Amazon Echo has been most useful for: 1) setting timers ... • Aaron Parecki

So far, Amazon Echo has been most useful for: 1) setting timers while cooking, 2) turning off the lights after I am in bed, 3) adding things to my grocery list.

Now that the SDK is available in beta, what kind of voice-enabled apps should I make! The prompts are somewhat limiting, basically the below with some variations:

• "Alexa, ask {app name} to {command}"
• "Alexa, launch {app name} and {command}"

Portland, Oregon, USA

Tue, Jun 9, 2015 5:22pm -07:00 #amazon #echo #alexa #homeautomation

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- Kevin Marks known.kevinmarks.com/profile/kevinmarks
  
  would an Alexa interface to Loqi's commands work?
  
  Tue, Jun 16, 2015 9:32pm +00:00
- Mike Merrill www.facebook.com/10152064711469849
  
  "Alexa, buy 10 shares of KmikeyM at the market price."
  
  Wed, Jun 10, 2015 9:18pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com
  
  @AmbassadorAwsum ah I forgot about the weather! I do like that too!
  
  Wed, Jun 10, 2015 4:57am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Amanda Folson amandafolson.net/about/#twitter
  
  @aaronpk I like the flash briefing and weather stuff. Music is pretty nice too though sometimes it doesn't understand me
  
  Wed, Jun 10, 2015 4:50am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Chad Berkley www.facebook.com/10200867285602772
  
  Ha cool. I didn't realize they'd released this. I just wrote a cron job to turn my sprinklers on. I think I'll try adapting this next.
  
  Wed, Jun 10, 2015 4:50am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com
  
  @skyler @jburrows I am very skeptical of voice interfaces in general, but for the limited set of things I've used... aaron.pk/r4ba3
  
  Wed, Jun 10, 2015 12:50am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- David Mead blog.davidjohnmead.com/profile/davidmead
  
  Have you tried using @ifttt with #AmazonEcho yet @aaronpk? Its kludgy, but I get it to turn on the Nest fan by asking Alexa "what's on my shopping list". We don't use the shopping list, so its like an unused command.
  I also use the alarm clock, timers, play music, and check what's on my calendar each morning too. Excited to see what people come up with.
  Would love to see Google Play, SomaFM tied in.
  
  Wed, Jun 10, 2015 12:45am +00:00
- Skyler Writes www.skycorbett.com
  
  @aaronpk Sweet. I talked about this with @jburrows -- I honestly believe that a voice OS evolution is going to be very important, very soon.
  
  Wed, Jun 10, 2015 12:28am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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