pauldeden / s-watch-alexa-skill

A serverless stopwatch Alexa Skill using lambda, zappa, flask-ask and simpledb

S Watch Alexa Skill

A serverless stopwatch Alexa Skill using Amazon Lambda, zappa, flask-adk and Amazon Simpledb.

Usage

• Say, "Alexa, enable S Watch"
• Then, to start the stopwatch say, "Alexa, Start S Watch"
• To stop the stopwatch and hear how long it was running say, "Alexa, tell S Watch to end"

Developing

• clone the repo
• make sure you have python2.7 and the awscli installed
• run aws sdb create-domain --domain-name s-watch
• run python -m virtualenv venv
• run source venv/bin/activate
• run python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
• edit zappa_settings.json changing manage_roles to true
• run zappa deploy production
• edit zappa_settings.json changing manage_roles to false
• add the following to your zappa-permissions IAM policy that zappa created in the Statement array

        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "sdb:*"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:sdb:us-west-2:<your AWS account id goes here>:domain/s-watch"
        },

• set up your alexa skills application at https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html
• in the Interation Model section fill in the values from the intent_schema.json, custom_slot_types.txt and sample_utterances.txt files respectively.
• in the Configuration section choose the HTTPS Endpoint type
• in the SSL Certificate section choose 'My development endpoint is a sub-domain of a domain that has a wildcard certificate from a certificate authority'
• update this line of code in app.py to app.config['ASK_APPLICATION_ID'] = '<your alexa application id goes here>'
• update the code by running zappa update production
• to undeploy the code run zappa undeploy production

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