Alexa/Heroku support?

ianuk2005` · October 1, 2016 at 11:20 PM

Hi,

Im thinkibg of getting an amazon alexa based device soon and by far one of the coolest things would be to control kodi using it. After some digging it seems someone has made it possible with some leg work.

However its dependent on running something like heroku to sit between kodi and alexa. Is this possible with libreleec? Ive no clue on what sort of dependencies are rwquired by heroku and if libreelec supports them.

Figured the best place to ask would be here. The guide/project is below:
kodi-alexa/README.md at master · m0ngr31/kodi-alexa · GitHub

How to Control Your Kodi Media Center with an Amazon Echo

**chewitt** · October 2, 2016 at 9:09 AM Official Post

It should work as the Heroku cloud service talks directly to the Kodi webserver so there's nothing to install on LE, but doing this requires you to expose the webserver on your Kodi box directly to the Internet which is not a great idea. It's not really designed/intended to be exposed that way and it's only password secured

**lrusak** · October 2, 2016 at 9:09 AM Official Post

Looks like they offer a dockerfile, I would go the docker route to start.

**popcornmix** · October 5, 2016 at 1:37 PM

I got this working on LibreELEC/Pi: Amazon Echo(Alexa) Skill and Kodi Addon

I was able to play some videos and control them, but it wasn't very accurate at recognising my voice.
This was before the UK release of Alexa, so it may have struggled with my accent - I'll need to test it again.

Alexa/Heroku support?

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Seen this, I would really like an Alexa support!