Use an Amazon Echo to control your Roku player.
See ASK/utterances.txt for examples of what you can do.
Create a Python 3 virtual environment and install requirements.txt. Run
server.py on your local network, make it reachable from Amazon, and create an
Alexa Skills Kit skill to connect them.
My setup is nginx + gunicorn on a Raspberry Pi on my local network, which has Dyn DNS service to keep a consistent hostname.
When launching the Flask server in this app, specify your Amazon Application ID
as an environment variable, AMAZON_APPLICATION_ID. If desired, you can also
specify the IP address of your Roku on the local network as ROKU_ADDRESS;
otherwise, SSDP will be used to discover it.
To find the IP address of your Roku, you can use the find_roku.py script
in your virtual environment.
- 0.3.0
- Improve search intent to accept up to five keywords: "Alexa, tell the Roku to search for Arrested Development."
- Allow /alexa or /alexa/ to be the endpoint.
- 0.2.0
- Add search intent that works if all extra menu items are displayed on the home screen.
- Add ability to type: "Alexa, tell the Roku to type 'Arrested Development'."
- Add several buttons to Roku button slot list.
- Add literal slot for searching.
- Allow Roku IP address to be set by environment variable,
ROKU_ADDRESS. - Move Amazon application ID to environment variable,
AMAZON_APPLICATIOND_ID.