cscanlin / alexa-casatunes Goto Github PK

A place to discuss ideas for releasing this skill publicly.

Necessary components:

1. The Alexa Skill - The interaction model must be flexible for rooms from all users.

2. The Lambda Function - must be able to handle account linking, tokens, and authentication

3. The CasaTunes server will need to run software so it is able to authenticate a request/token received from Lambda, and route the request.

For part one, room names are currently stored in the interaction model, but it doesn't appear to really make a difference in validating what rooms names are parsed from the Users request. If that continues to be the case, this part can be considered pretty much done.

I found this blog post which demonstrates how to accomplish part 2 in Rails with a gem called doorkeeper: https://echobind.com/blog/alexa-custom-skills-with-account-linking/

I'm working on a proof of concept application that leverages Flask-OAuthlib to try to get basic account linking working, but have been unsuccessful so far (See the README in that repo for a description of the problem):
https://github.com/cscanlin/ask-auth

I haven't started part 3 yet, but it should be relatively straightforward once the second part is done.

If anyone has any ideas on ways to proceed (especially on part 2) please let me know!