Various issues and incompatible versions of Visual Studio, Firebase libraries and Xcode along with annoying path name restrictions on windows and VS bugs in Mac OS mean it can be a challenge to keep an app building while still updating software especially when moving to .NET 8 at the time […]
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As part of some home sensors I wanted to measure the water level in a water tank. Originally I used a PI and python to do this but this proved to not be great so I switched to use a NODE MCU dev board (ESP8266 chip) linked to an HC-SR04 […]
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Creating alexa skills with .NET – part 10 Alexa skill account linking. In part 9 we setup reminders within our sample skill, we are now going to be looking at account linking. Account linking is where we can link up an alexa user with some other form, of user account. […]
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Creating alexa skills with .NET – part 9 Setting reminders from an Alexa Skill. In part 8 we introduced the ability to pass data from a skill invocation using what amazon call slots. One use of this data can be to set a reminder, this reminder will then appear on […]
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Creating alexa skills with .NET – part 8 Passing data from an Alexa skill invocation. in Part 7 we showed how to access customer account data from a skill. In this one we show how to pass ‘data’ from an utterance so let’s say for example we want to have a new […]
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Creating alexa skills with .NET – part 7 Assessing User data in Alexa Skills. in Part 6 we setup the new skill for testing, via the developer portal, a real device or a simulated alexa. SO at the moment we have created a skill which uses a defined intent to […]
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Creating alexa skills with .NET – part 6 Basic Alexa rest service. in Part 5 we setup the new skill for testing, via the developer portal, a real device or a simulated alexa. While the skill now works, it’s not in a state where it would pass the testing the […]
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Creating alexa skills with .NET – part 5 Alexa Skills, a testing time. in Part 4 we created the skeleton of the rest service we will be using as an endpoint. .We go back now to the Alexa developer console, and if not already done we should make sure that […]
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Creating alexa skills with .NET – part 4 creating a .NET Core rest service. in Part 3 we added in an intent to the basic alexa skill and defined the endpoint. We now need to create that endpoint. I will be using Visual Studio 2019 for this article, VS for […]
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Creating alexa skills with .NET – part 1 setup and tools needed. While converting a skill from AWS/Node.JS to .NET I investigated a number of the more advanced features that are available. Rather than forgetting the parts that are not well documented I decided to publish a series of blog […]
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