Alexa enabled smart home programming in Python - PyCon India 2018
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The document presents a talk by Sonal Raj at PyCon India 2018 about programming smart home devices using Alexa and Python. It discusses various commands for Alexa, the structure and building of Alexa skills, as well as tools for testing and deploying these skills, such as Flask-Ask and AWS Lambda. The future of Alexa integration is also highlighted, emphasizing the potential for interactive applications in various domains.
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Alexa enabled smart home programming in Python - PyCon India 2018
- 1. Alexa Enabled Smart Home Programming with Python Sonal Raj PyCon India 2018 Hyderabad, IN
- 2. Hello! I am Sonal Raj 2 year old Alexa user. 10 year old Pythonista. 2
- 3. IOT Internet of Things
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- 5. Woah!! 5 Total Adult Population 252 MILLION Smart Device Owners 47.3 MILLION Source: Voicebot voice shopping US Consumer Adoption and Attitudes 2018 Report
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- 8. Source: Voicebot voice shopping US Consumer Adoption and Attitudes 2018 Report 8 Amazon 62% Google 27% Apple 4% Sonos 4% Others 3%
- 10. 10 Commands
- 12. 12 Increase the living room temperature slightly. I am feeling cold / hot Optimize my room temperature How many heaters are on here Initiate rapid cooling mode for all rooms Turn off cooling
- 13. 13 Light Name On/Off Color Brightness State Location Alexa, initiate night mode in living room Interactions
- 14. Switch the TV Channel to the cricket match… Is the front door locked … 14 Turn on the sprinklers in the garden… Warm up the water in the shower.. Lower the temperature.. Turn up the heat in this room.. Start vacuuming this room… Initiate home lockdown…
- 16. Skill 16
- 20. 20 “Alexa, ask Zomato for the nearest [restaurantType]” Invocation Name Slot Utterance Intent maps to
- 21. 21 Invocation Name What a user must say to “start” the skill. Each skill has a unique Invocation Name
- 22. 22 “Alexa, ask Zomato for the nearest [restaurantType]” Invocation Name Slot Utterance Intent maps to
- 23. 23 Utterance A spoken phrase that maps to an intent. A skill can have many utterances.
- 24. 24 “Alexa, ask Zomato for the nearest [restaurantType]” Invocation Name Slot Utterance Intent maps to
- 25. 25 Slot A variable within an utterance. Variable possibilities must be defined.
- 26. 26 “Alexa, ask Zomato for the nearest [restaurantType]” Invocation Name Slot Utterance Intent maps to
- 27. 27 Intent Whenever you speak to an Alexa Skill, your message is mapped to an intent which decides what code to run within your skill.
- 28. 28 “Alexa, ask Zomato for the nearest [restaurantType]” Invocation Name Slot Utterance Intent maps to
- 30. Flask-Ask A Flask extension that has wrappers for the common constructs for the Alexa skills API.
- 31. Flask-Ask A Flask extension that has wrappers for the common constructs for the Alexa skills API. • Has decorators to map Alexa requests and intent slots to view functions • Helps construct ask and tell responses, re-prompts and cards • Makes session management easy • Allows for the separation of code and speech through Jinja templates • Verifies Alexa request signatures
- 32. [ Developer Experience ] Let’s see how the code looks like.
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- 36. Testing a Skill
- 37. ngrok exposes local servers behind NATs and firewalls to the public internet over secure tunnels.
- 38. ngrok Local http to public https!!! • Demoing web sites without deploying • Building webhook consumers on your dev machine • Testing mobile apps connected to your locally running backend • Stable addresses for your connected devices that are deployed in the field • Running personal cloud services from your home
- 39. AWS Lambda AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.
- 40. AWS Lambda A compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. • Executes your code only when needed • Scales automatically, from a few requests per day to thousands per second. • Charged for compute, not downtime • Any kind of application backend • build serverless applications composed of functions that are triggered by events
- 41. Alexa Skill Test
- 43. Echosim.io 43
- 45. IFTTT
- 46. 46 The Future • Interactive Social Networks • Interactive Idea boards • Voice Gaming • Crisis Alerting • Office Integration – Meeting room bookings, etc. • Always aware state!! ( Creepy!! )
- 48. Thanks! Questions?? You can find me at: q sonal.nitjsr@gmail.com q sonal-raj@github q _sonalraj@twitter q sonalr2@facebook 48