Building Alexa Skills for Home Automation with Raspberry Pi

About Building Alexa Skills for Home Automation with Raspberry Pi

With millions of Alexa devices being sold, learning to build

Custom Alexa Skills

is becoming a

highly sought after skill by employers

. Electronics hobbyists and do-it-yourselfers can also use Alexa to perform

home automation

. There is great power in being able to

control any device in your home

with an

Alexa

. But what if you want to perform

home automation

and have

Alexa control your lights, appliances and even any tv in your home

and have

complete control to customize

which devices

you control with your voice

without spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on smart home gadgets or devices? By using a

Raspberry Pi

, it is easy to interface with home electronics and devices to create custom skills using Alexa to

voice control anything in your home

and achieve true home automation! This course will teach you how to build Alexa Skills that will run on any Amazon Echo device to voice control anything in your home. In this course, you will learn:

What is Alexa and the underlying

Alexa ecosystem

that uses the Alexa Voice Service

We will discuss

Custom Alexa Skills

and you will learn the components that make up a Custom Alexa Skill

We then dive into

preparing your Raspberry Pi

for the projects we will build

We will describe the

flask-ask Python library

which we will be using to build Custom Alexa Skills

You will learn how to use the

Amazon Developer Portal

to configure and create your Custom Alexa Skill

We will build a

Skill to control an LED connected to the Raspberry Pi

with Alexa

We then dive into using

relays

to safely connect to our

Raspberry Pi and AC mains power

We will create a Skill that allows you to

control any device in your home to turn it on or off using Alexa

We create an awesome project that will enable you to

voice control any tv in your house even it is 20 years old using Alexa

We will build an

IR receiver and transmitter circuit

that connects to our Raspberry Pi

We will work with the LIRC (Linux Infrared Control) library on our Raspberry Pi

You will be able to

adjust volume, navigate channels, go to a specific channel, power on and off your tv

using Alexa

This can be completely customized to work with any tv

You can add any functionality to the skill such as play, pause, rewind for DVRs or basically add any feature your remote can perform The skills that will be created in this course can be run on any Amazon Echo device in your home. You will learn how to test the custom skills that we will build on an Amazon Echo or any Alexa-enabled device. Along the way you will learn:

Basic

Electronics

How to work with relays and safely

control high voltage AC devices from a Raspberry Pi

How to use an

octocoupler circuit

to allow

electrical isolation

to protect your Raspberry Pi when connecting to high voltage AC power from a relay

How to work with

GPIO pins

on the Raspberry Pi

Learn about

infrared transmitters and receivers

Python

programming

Learn to

program for Alexa

How to build

Custom Alexa Skills

from scratch

How to expose your Raspberry Pi to the internet via a publicly available https endpoint using Ngrok

How to build

projects for home automation and the internet of things

that can be controlled via Alexa

No previous programming knowledge or electronics knowledge required. All principles taught from scratch!

No Amazon Echo device

is required to build and test skills. What are you waiting for? Let's learn to build

home automation

and

internet of things

projects that you can control

via any Alexa Device now

! Get

started

today!