Amazon Echo Manual Guide : Top 30 Hacks And Secrets To Master Amazon Echo & Alexa For Beginners E-Book

Scott Green

• Herausgeber: Scott Green
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Your Perfect Guide to Amazon Echo! This book is a complete and handy companion that will enable you to set up and use your Amazon Echo device quickly and efficiently for beginners. By reading this book you will understand and be able to receive all the benefits that this wonderful device has to offer, allowing you to keep up with your busy schedule.You will learn: Hacking The RemoteControl Fake WEMO DevicesControl Lights And TemperatureKnow The Best CommandsAnd a whole lot more! Download NOW and Start Reading!

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Amazon Echo Manual Guide

Top 30 Hacks And Secrets To Master Amazon Echo & Alexa For Beginners

SCOTT GREEN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents 3

About Us4

Publishers Notes5

Introduction6

Chapter 1: Hacking The Remote7

Chapter 2: Control Fake WEMO Devices9

Chapter 3: Control Lights And Temperature10

Chapter 4: SONOS – Echo Mash-Up Through Heroku14

Chapter 5: Know The Best Commands20

Chapter 6: Make The Most Out Of Amazon Echo’s Music Feature30

Chapter 7: Amazon Echo And IFTTT32

Chapter 8: Make Alexa Smarter40

Conclusion83

Publishers Notes95

ABOUT US

The Blokehead is an extensive series of instructional/how to books which are intended to present quick and easy to use guides for readers new to the various topics covered.

The Series is divided into the following sub-series:

1. The Blokehead Success Series

2. The Blokehead Journals

3. The Blokehead Kids Series

We enjoy and welcome any feedback to make these series even more useful and entertaining for you.

PUBLISHERS NOTES

Disclaimer

This publication is intended to provide helpful and informative material. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any health problem or condition, nor is intended to replace the advice of a physician. No action should be taken solely on the contents of this book. Always consult your physician or qualified health-care professional on any matters regarding your health and before adopting any suggestions in this book or drawing inferences from it.

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Digital Edition 2015

Manufactured in the United States of America

INTRODUCTION

Thank you for downloading the book Top 30 Hacks and Secrets to Master Amazon Echo for Beginners!

Amazon Echo, also known as Alexa, is one of the biggest innovations from marketing and tech giant Amazon. Said to always make you feel ready and connected—without any hassle!

It makes use of far-field voice recognition that allows you to get the information that you need right away, fill the room with sounds and music, learn the latest weather updates, and you can also connect it to certain devices that you have with you.

With the help of this book, you’ll learn how to make the most out of Amazon Echo, and get it to do what you want it to!

Read this book now to find out how!

Once again, thank you, and good luck!

CHAPTER 1: HACKING THE REMOTE

It all starts with hacking Alexa’s remote control. This is where the magic happens! Here’s what you can do.

1. Use Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi is an extremely popular credit-card sized computer that you can plug into a keyboard or TV—but one that you can also use for other devices, such as Alexa. Here’s what you should do:

a. Check out the Red Pads (also known as V+), and attach a 3v3 Power Supply right there.

b. Now, find the Black Pads (also known as GND), and attach common ground between that and your Raspberry Pi.

c. Then, solder a wire to the voice button contact ring—but just outside of it.

d. Next, you have to solder a new wire in between the ½ voltage divider.

e. Finally, set GPIO to High. You can use this to let the voice button be pressed down. Set it to Low if you want it released.

2. Disassemble the Remote. After disassembling it, use a digital multi-meter to identify the power rails. Then, pull the tactile switch membrane from the command/microphone. Place a piece of wax paper underneath so that the membrane’s adhesive would be protected. Also, do not forget to use SMD Headers in place of Standard Right Angle Headers. This will help guide the controller board down.

3. Make sure tactile switches are properly connected. To do so, just make sure that you use a ½ voltage divider, and that you switch contact to the 1v8 rail. This way, switches will be triggered in the right way. This is also what you’d use as the script to switch from high to low, depending on what you want to use Alexa as.

CHAPTER 2: CONTROL FAKE WEMO DEVICES

Simply put, WEMO devices help control the gadgets or appliances that you have at home. With then, you could control lights, water, electronics, and could also be connected to the IFTTT (If This then That) account.

However, WEMO devices aren’t really cheap, and sometimes, all one can do is go for knockoffs, instead.

But, Alexa could actually control Fake WEMO Devices—you just have to know the right commands to use. Here’s what you should know.

4. Find Connected Devices. Tell Alexa to Find Connected Devices and she’d begin searching for WEMO or WEMO-like devices. This happens through the broadcast of UPnP channels over UDP. The M-Search Feature would then start looking for the urn: Belkin Device.

Now, what happens is that the WEMO Device responds with its URL over UDP (address would be http://<ip>:49153/setup.xml). Then, Alexa would request for the description of the device in HTTP over TCP manner (address would be GET/setup.xml), until finally, the device sends its description back.

5. Find Light. Now, it’s time to utter a command. For example, Find the kitchen light. Alexa would then send the Set Binary State command to the device. What happens here is that HTTP works with SOAP over TCP. In other words: POST/upnp/control/basicevent1.

6. Say OK. Just say OK to let the device return command confirmation and do what you want it to.