UPDATE: CHECK THE NUMBERED HOW TO VIDEOS ON MY CHANNEL TO SET THIS UP IN YOUR HOME! BE SURE TO WATCH THE HOW TO VIDEOS IN NUMBERED ORDER...
All links to download the modules and scripts I engineered to do this are found in the video descriptions as you watch the relevant how to video, and the software is FREE!
This is my one of three videos of what I'm doing with the Amazon Echo, KODI and home automation.
If I get enough subscribers, I promise to make future more organized videos along with details of how to set all this up in your home. I’ll also post the KODI module for you to play with too!
These videos are really intended to see if there’s interest in more detailed how to walk-throughs of automating your home.
In this video, I'm demonstrating true voice enabled two way feedback with KODI, my home automation system and the Amazon Echo!
Here’s what I’m using to do this:
1. Amazon's Echo (aka Alexa)
2. KODI running on an nVidia Shield AndroidTV device
3. A free home automation program called Motorola Premise Home Control (http://cocoontech.com/forums/page/home-automation-software/_/premise-r3)
and...
4. A KODI module I've written for Premise allowing full two-way ip based functionality (including library importing) and IR too (so you can use the native Netflix 4k App that comes on the nVidia Shield without picking up another remote).
5. A very versatile SpeechParser module I've written for Premise, that takes a generic command phrase, then performs some action and forms a natural language response.
6. A new Amazon Echo skill I'm calling "Premise" that is in testing under my developer account. It uses an Intent called “Premise” to pass whatever is said after “Alexa ask Premise to” to my home automation server.
7. A free tiered Amazon Web Services (AWS) account to send Alexa commands to my home automation server over HTTPS. The same AWS lambda function also reads back an HTTP response of what actions took place that is sent from my home automation server (via the SpeechParser module).
Some additional even more geeky details:
Everything you see is done in a very generic fashion. No individual phrases were programmed for what you see in the video, I’m too lazy for that!
I’ve written code (a Premise SpeechParser module) for my home automation system that actually interprets the sentence using nested regular expressions to find what property state, property value, device type and room location you are trying to control based on what command you say.
In this manner, the command phrases are NOT order dependent (unlike most other options out there including Amazon’s), and leverage the object based structure of Premise, to recursively find a match within my home for whatever command is issued.
To elaborate, once found from the command phrase, the device type and room location are then used to examine all devices in the under a particular location (e.g. room) that match a particular device type (e.g. light). Once a match is found (e.g. table lamp in the living room), the properties under that object are compared using recursion to find the best match for the command sentence, and the new value is set.
The queries in the Part 2 video also work in a similar manner, but instead of setting a property value, they grab the value and return a response to the query.
