Enhancing controls – integrating the Arduino IoT Cloud with Amazon Alexa
After testing everything on the device using the Arduino IoT Cloud dashboard, it’s time to link Amazon Alexa with our thing for the voice control system. We have a physical hardware device for Alexa as well mobile apps for Android/iOS. Please visit https://alexa.amazon.com/ to set up this project. I am using Amazon Echo Dot second generation, but if you don’t have access to an Alexa hardware device, then you can simply use the mobile app.
Figure 10.12 – Arduino Skill for Amazon Alexa
The Arduino IoT Cloud natively developed a skill for Amazon Alexa, which can be found at https://www.amazon.com/Arduino-LLC/dp/B07ZT2PK2H. Set up your Amazon Alexa and navigate to the preceding URL to enable a skill, which is shown in the preceding figure. When you link the account, it will automatically link the Arduino IoT cloud account that is already logged in with this...
