Control Raspberry Pi using Amazon Echo

Parts:

Raspberry Pi 3B+ or later running latest version of raspbian

Arrrgh! Does not work on Raspberry PI OS Lite or Raspberry Pi OS. Alexa doesn't discover device. I tried with and without WeMo skill linked to Alexa.

Step 1. Get the scripts

Open a terminal window on MacBook and login into the Raspberry Pi

$ cd ~/.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dumbo25/Control-Raspberry-Pi-with-Alexa/master/getScripts.sh

$ sudo bash getScripts.sh

Or use github

Step 2. Install needed packages and modules

Install pip

$ sudo apt install python-pip -y

The following command allows requests to be found by systemd

$ sudo -H pip install requests

Step 3. Enable writing to the log file

$ touch rpi-echo.log

$ sudo chmod og+w rpi-echo.log

Step 4. Edit rpi-echo.py to do what you want

rpi-echo.py is stored in /usr/local/bin

I have the script setup to turn security on and off, but you can have it do anything that is scriptable

Edit the code as described in rpi-echo.py

An echo command requires, Alexa, turn <device> <command>