1i / ebirdus

Alexa app to read bird sightings from ebird.org APIs

• 👋 Hi, I’m Patrick O'Sullivan ( Suil Abhan meaning 1i in Irish), I WFH in Dublin Ireland.
• 🔧 I'm an engineer — that means I solve problems. Not problems like 'What is beauty?' because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy.
• 👀 I’m interested in tech, nature and gaming. See ebirdus and https://ebird.org/home
• 🧑‍💼 I currently work on mostly Java stuff that corpo work throws at me.

ebirdus's Issues

PKIX Certificate issue.

Need to import a certificate to fix a sun security PKIX issue.
HTTP client cannot verify identity of ebird.org.
UTs failing.
Production AWS Lambda failing.

Document Spoken Intents for Alexa spoken Intents

Italicize the input slots
Example

• Alexa ask birdus for recent sightings
• Alexa ask birdus for sightings in kerry

Convert the examples

• Allow users to say a county Kerry and return only the sightings in Kerry.
• Allow users to ask for rare bird sightings.
• Allow users to say a day Monday sightings and return the sightings for that specific day.
• Allow users to say a day Monday and a location Kerry sightings and return only the sightings in Kerry that specific day.

Deploy Ebirdus to AWS

Cold start doesn't respond

The first innovation of Alexa, where the whole code needs to be loaded does not respond in time and the request

Remove county from locationIntent

Currently The phrase is 'Alexa open birdie sightings for county Dublin'

This does not work well for the countries or isle of Mann/ other isles

AppProps can not support Counties with spaces

If "West Meath" had a space then appProps could not retrieve it from the list.
Investigate replacement.

List the sightings by county for whole country

e.g. In Wicklow barn swallow, eider duck. In kerry chough. In donegal oriole.
Alexa ask birdie sightings to list all in Ireland

Fife in Scotland is not recognised

Alexa hears it as five, maybe need phonetics phrase