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 Alexa? What should I go for - Arctophile
Following a three way coincidence (this thread, a chat with a friend who has an Amazon Echo and some research into Raspberry Pi projects) I decided to see if I could build an Alexa device with my Raspberry Pi.

I followed the tutorial on Amazon’s developer web site and, after a few hiccups I finally got it to work. It answers questions and tells jokes as the genuine article does. She seems to have a sense of humour when responding to some inputs.

She even answered correctly my standard awkward question: “What is the square root of minus one?”.

However, I don’t think it can operate lights etc. without further work plus further hardware in addition to a wifi enabled lamp.

Also Alexa says that “Spotify is not supported on this device”.

I’m still researching what it can do.

Of course the cost of a Raspberry Pi plus ancillaries is more than a basic Amazon Echo but it has exercised my brain for a few hours. :-)
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 Alexa? What should I go for   Zero 9 Oct 18 10:27
 Alexa? What should I go for   smokie 9 Oct 18 15:03
 Alexa? What should I go for   sherlock47 9 Oct 18 15:28
 Alexa? What should I go for   sherlock47 9 Oct 18 16:57
 Alexa? What should I go for   Zero 9 Oct 18 17:14
 Alexa? What should I go for   Crankcase 10 Oct 18 06:58
 Alexa? What should I go for   Duncan 10 Oct 18 07:26
 Alexa? What should I go for   Crankcase 10 Oct 18 09:16
 Alexa? What should I go for   Zero 10 Oct 18 09:55
 Alexa? What should I go for   Crankcase 10 Oct 18 11:42
 Alexa? What should I go for   VxFan 10 Oct 18 09:26
 Alexa? What should I go for   Duncan 10 Oct 18 09:28
 Alexa? What should I go for   sooty123 10 Oct 18 09:35
 Alexa? What should I go for   Duncan 10 Oct 18 09:39
 Alexa? What should I go for   sooty123 10 Oct 18 09:45
 Alexa? What should I go for   VxFan 10 Oct 18 12:40
 Alexa? What should I go for   Duncan 10 Oct 18 15:48
 Alexa? What should I go for   VxFan 10 Oct 18 16:33
 Alexa? What should I go for   devonite 14 Oct 18 09:17
 Alexa? What should I go for   Zero 16 Oct 18 19:34
 Alexa? What should I go for..  R.P. 16 Oct 18 19:59
  
 Alexa? What should I go for   Arctophile 19 Oct 18 08:34
 Alexa? What should I go for   Crankcase 19 Oct 18 08:42
 Alexa? What should I go for   Zero 19 Oct 18 09:06
 Alexa? What should I go for   Crankcase 19 Oct 18 10:53
 Alexa? What should I go for   Duncan 19 Oct 18 11:05
 Alexa? What should I go for   Crankcase 19 Oct 18 11:37
 Alexa? What should I go for   smokie 19 Oct 18 15:40
 Alexa? What should I go for   No FM2R 19 Oct 18 16:26
 Alexa? What should I go for   smokie 19 Oct 18 17:11
 Alexa? What should I go for   Duncan 20 Oct 18 10:48
 Alexa? What should I go for   R.P. 21 Oct 18 12:00
 Alexa? What should I go for   Zero 21 Oct 18 12:20
 Alexa? What should I go for   Bobby 21 Oct 18 12:33
 Alexa? What should I go for   Crankcase 21 Oct 18 12:40
 Alexa? What should I go for   smokie 21 Oct 18 13:21
 Alexa? What should I go for..  R.P. 21 Oct 18 13:40
  
 Alexa? What should I go for   Crankcase 21 Oct 18 17:34
 Alexa? What should I go for   No FM2R 21 Oct 18 17:39
 Alexa? What should I go for   Crankcase 22 Oct 18 07:57
 Alexa? What should I go for   No FM2R 21 Oct 18 17:38
 Alexa? What should I go for   sooty123 21 Oct 18 18:03
 Alexa? What should I go for..  R.P. 21 Oct 18 18:21
  
 Alexa? What should I go for   R.P. 21 Oct 18 18:35
 Alexa? What should I go for   No FM2R 21 Oct 18 18:44
 Alexa? What should I go for..  Crankcase 22 Oct 18 07:39
  
 Alexa? What should I go for   Zero 15 Nov 18 20:02
  
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