Amazon Echo is primarily dedicated to detecting and processing spoken voice commands, where as Siri and Cortana are co-existing with other priority competing resource applications and their internal generic microphone is suited to lower quality phone calls, not optimal translation of the spoken audio wave, like Echo. But, they do perform suitably for the spoken word when in proximity, which as you pointed out, is very close.
Amazon has opened Alexa to others that wish to have it in their devices. For example, am Alexa enabled alarm clock sitting next to your bed would have the same ability as the echo. Everything comes from the cloud.
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Yep. Our household has two echoes, two Amazon profiles, but each echo controls the same SmartThings devices, no problem. And we can switch from one profile to the other and play music from either profile on each device.
Well, you can link two Amazon accounts to your echo account. So if two people have a separate account where they have been gathering music and books and stuff they can both be used with one echo account.
Bottom line of this concept idea was to have the always on mic capability throughout the home vs using the Echo remote via Bluetooth. I guess the topic was not interesting enough for the Amazon forum. It is nice to hear the STC engaging on this.
As a interim solution I decided to use the echo remote as the remote mic. At least in the areas where Bluetooth is in range. Still do not like having to press the button on the mic to talk; however I can control all functions of Echo/Alexa as if I was talking directly to the echo device. A couple/three of these remotes placed strategically throughout the home provides remote communication with Alexa without the need for a second Echo device.
I am still hopeful Amazon or a third party will adopt the always on mic concept as a companion device for the Echo. In theory this would be a lower cost solution than multiple Echo devices and would bring us closer to full hands free home automation.
Currently hooked up to a Sonos Connect ( that sends my Deezer app, Pandora & most of my iTunes music) to my receiver that sends music to my pool speakers & a Nyrius bluetooth on my receiver so I can use the Dot for free Prime Amazon music. Thinking of keeping my Dot inside (20 feet from my receiver & my pool chairs) and using my unused Echo remote for the Dot.
All of my music is in iTunes (which connects to my various systems via airplay); what I have done is to use HAM Bridge to instruct which system to connect to and which playlist to play via AppleScript.
[Playlist name] is passed to HAM Bridge as a param within separate commands for bedroom, outdoor, media system device names which run python scripts to turn the various systems on/select inputs via iTach devices. Similar scripts shut everything down if I tell SmartThings I am leaving or my presence sensor leaves.
If it could transparently hook in to the BigTalker app to allow it to seamlessly use an Echo/Dot with Alexa TTS as the announcer that would be very useful for me. Achieving the currently blocked TTS/notify ability with Alexa.
To limit misuse to only yourself you can easily lock the dot and headphones in a box with a feed through for the cables. Pyramid foam works good in the box too if the dot is located in an area with computer fan noise.
I have a Samsung smart remote with Amazon Alexa built in. When I press the Alexa button/microphone, I can change volumes but not tv channels. For example when I say "watch channel 7" Alexa on the tv responds with "tuning to 7" however it doesn't change channels. It however works when I tell it to change the tv volume.
I have exact same problem, the volume works fine but the channel doesn't change despite the screen showing 'tuning to 101' - so Alexa/TV recognises commands but TV does not tune - must be a bug somewhere, it used to work a few months back. Annoying.
Have same issue. Just purchased my first Samsung TV, and Alexa only controls volume. Everything else she says she is doing (like set channel 10) but it doesnt actually work. A bug that is easy to identify and would be good to know when a fix is due.
I am searching the whole day for a solution to create a Remote Control with an ESP8266 to switch on devices like lights trough Amazon Alexa. I don't want to remote everything with the voice assistant. I found out that the Echo Button is supporting the feature to start routines over alexa after a click, so I thought that there could also be an emulation software for the ESP8266 to emulate an Echo Button to trigger a routine in Alexa.
There are also some Wall Light Switches on the market, that can trigger an alexa action and I found this one GitHub - witnessmenow/esp8266-alexa-wemo-emulator: multiple belkin wemos switch emulator using ESP8266. But I think that it's only for switching on an ESP8266 Pin output through the voice assistant.
You can find so many tutorials to trigger an ESP with the voice assistant but not the other way arround
The echo button appears to be a bluetooth device that can pair with your existing "Alexa" product. Rather than a device to be controlled by Alexa it appears to be an alternative input method to the usual voice command. Quick primer here
with success, means that Alexa discover the devices and I'm able to manage it from Alexa App. But should be nice to have a simply button create with ESP8266 and the idea to follow for me is what is mentioned in above link for PhS. Basically the system wake up, connected to network, retrieve the state, apply the new state go to sleep again.
For to that we should be able to emulate the alexa command packet. I did a wireshark session that I attach here but I'm not able to find something clear. THE LAMP is 192.168.15.108 maybe if we can extract the basic command we can create a packet to send directly.
The answers so far miss what Alexa actually is. It's not just a voice assistant. She is a home speaker system, entertainment system, gaming system. And you can set up very useful routines that interact with various smart devices in a specific order and time. With multiple Echos throughout the house we have found it very useful to have Alexa as an intercom and announcement system as well.
That being said, it would be extremely useful to be able to program ESP8266's to trigger routines or start intercom functionality or switch the music to all speakers or tell me the plants are dry or tell me the oven was left on... the possibilities are endless.
I'm also looking for a solution to this. Or at least a direction on where to start to build my own. OP is saying he wants the esp8266 to send a command to Alexa. Say for instance I have a light sensor on my esp, so when I turn on the lights in my room the esp will send a command "Alexa, Play Music".
I'm working on this, too. I learned that you can't connect an ESP8266 to AWS (Amazon Web Service) because it doesn't have the right security. You can connect a MKR Wifi - but then it gets very complicated. You can hack ESP8266 into Alexa by emulating WEMOS, but again, one-way.
It's pretty straightforward to connect a Nano 33 IoT to the Amazon Cloud, and Alexa can pick up your device from the Amazon Cloud - but again, Alexa can see it, read from it (e.g. temperature) and change it, but the NANO can't launch a Routine on Alexa. (My NANO can tell the temperature of the chicken I'm roasting on the grill outside, and I want Alexa, in the house, to tell me when it's done)
I have successfully created a Thing in the Arduino cloud using a Nano 33 IoT board and the Smart Home Property Type: Motion Sensor. Both the Dashboard on IoT Cloud and the Devices on my Alexa App can see the status of the motion detector connected to the Nano.
When I select "New Routine", then "When this happens" the menu is Voice, Schedule, Smart Home, Location, Alarms, Echo Button, or Guard. I select Smart Home, and expect to see my Arduino Motion Sensor, but the only option there is "Dallas Living Room, Echo Plus", which is the temperature in my living room.
My solution is to get an earbud speaker and put it on a little microphone on your Alexa. Then record the audio of u triggering the routine. Then you can play that from your esp8266 through the little speaker and your Alexa will play the routine.
I have been doing a great research about how to interact from an arduino to Alexa, specally triggering routines. As we know there is much information about the communication Alexa-Arduino but not the other way around. I will try to simplify what I found.
The solution given by @rednadOzeuven is feasible. I started with this solution some months ago with an Adafruit MP3 shield for arduino. It worked out well but is not the most precise solution, as the environment noise can interfere.
There are some IoT web services that can help you with this. You can create virtual switches that are recognized by the Alexa app in order to trigger a routine. These virtual switches can be operated by an Arduino with WIFI capabilites. Pretty easy setup.
The feasible ones I found are Sinric and Smartnest, as well as Ardiuino IoT. Have a look on them.
The problem is that they just have found the profit they can get with this and have changed their platform from free to paid subscrption. You still can have somewhere up to 5 devices aprox. for free but in case you want to interact with some more you will have to pay. Sinric is still on its transition, so the old free server is still operative for you to try. Be carefull as they intend to migrate to the paid one soon and you could lose it all.
There is another one of this kind called Supla which seems to work in the same way. This one is fully free but seems to be a little bit more complicated as the code and instructions are not so clear. Havent tried this last one though.
OpenHab is a Home Automation free and open source platform which, among hips of things, lets you directly interact with your alexa device through the WIFI. It also lets you interact with your arduino so this means that i am able to press a button in arduino and an alexa routine is triggered. The OpenHab method is kind of complicated but it works. 152ee80cbc
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