Building Alexa Skills for Home Automation with Raspberry Pi

This course will teach you how to build Alexa skills that will run on any Amazon Echo device to voice-control anything in your home.

In this course, you will learn:

What Alexa is and the underlying Alexa ecosystem that uses the Alexa Voice Service
We discuss Custom Alexa Skills and you will learn the components that make up a custom Alexa skill
We then prepare your Raspberry Pi for the projects we will build
We describe the flask-ask Python library, which we will be using to build custom Alexa skills
You will learn how to use the Amazon Developer Portal to configure and create your custom Alexa skills
We will build a skill to control an LED connected to the Raspberry Pi with Alexa
We then use relays to safely connect to our Raspberry Pi via AC mains power
We create a skill that allows you to control any device in your home to turn it on or off using Alexa
We create an awesome project that will enable you to voice-control any TV in your house
The skills that you'll create in this course can be run on any Amazon Echo device in your home. You will learn how to test the custom skills that you will build on an Amazon Echo or any Alexa-enabled device.

All the code files are placed at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-Alexa-Skills-for-Home-Automation-with-Raspberry-Pi