Is there any method to send a link to a user when they ask through an Alexa skill? I found Send to Phone Intent but I didn't understand how to implement it. Has anyone had to use this intent? The scenery would be as an example: Alexa, open the amazon website and it would send a push notification to the cell phone and when the customer clicked on the notification it would open the amazon website.
The Send to Phone feature should do exactly what you're describing, but it's in developer preview right now, so you need to apply here to gain access.
In the meantime, here are the tech docs, design guidelines, and a code sample.
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I am building a website where I want to have a customer support chat widget. When someone writes in the chat box, I want that to comes as a text message to my phone and when I reply the customer sees the reply. I looked at a few services like Zendesk, Zoho but I couldn't find the exact thing I was looking for. Any tips on how I should achieve this? Any other chat widget 3rd party service that you know of that can do what I want?
I have built a Alexa Skill, but for now it only works for Alexa Device.
I wonder if that is possible I can deploy/reference the Alexa Skill in my website (only text or voice part)?
One use case:
User can say "i am born in xx/xx/xxxx", and Alexa can capture the intent "CaptureBirthdayIntent", so that my website code (Python) can address the intent.
I found many CMS (e.g. Wordpress, Drupal) can do this: https://medium.com/#OPTASY.com/how-to-integrate-alexa-with-your-drupal-8-website-a-step-by-step-guide-5a76c1d74a88. But I am not using those CMS.
It also seems like Alexa Voice Service can do this.
Can anyone give me some reference?
In most cases, you'll need to use Account Linking, which is an API where the customer links their account at your website and their account with Alexa, and then you'll have a unique ID for the customer that is the same in both your skill and your external app (and is unique to that link between them), so you can sync data between them using a database.
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/account-linking/understand-account-linking.html
You can create your own unique OAuth 2 provider at your web app or use Login with Amazon, Login with Google, Facebook, AWS Cognito... Having your own OAuth provider can make it way easier to get a customer linked and not have them give up, because adding in third parties (LwA, Google, FB, AWS) adds extra logins/authorizations to complete the process.
You can use Dialogflow to do this. Make a chatbot with similar intents and map the endpoint to Alexa endpoints and should work. I am sure you can easily work it out if you have made an Alexa skill.
I try to implement devices control from Alexa.
I created smart home skill and successfully added user authorization.
I can turn on/off my devices. I understand, that I can add new commands (like stop, play last video, get status and etc.) only using custom skills. But on the basis of this knowledge, I still can not figure out. Can I control devices using additional commands?
For example "Alexa, ask manager to play bedroom TV last video" or "Alexa, ask manager get kitchen camera status".
Yes, you can control.. Refer this project with sample code and steps to interact with amazon alexa. This will help you to get start from the basics.
https://github.com/krvarma/particle-alexa-smart-home-skill
I want to use amazon alexa api for my website/ mobile application. I would like to know if it is possible to use and how to integrate alexa, given that I develop my custom skill.
You can use the Alexa Voice Service. You will need to collect the user's audio and then submit it to Amazon. The voice snippet does not need to contain the hotword (e.g. Alexa). You should be able to use most features that don't involve the device and aren't asynchronous. For example, you can utilize the alarm or timer features nor the music streams.
It sounds like you are asking how to allow the user to talk to your website or mobile app.
An Alexa custom skill is something you create to extend Alexa's vocabulary, so to speak. It isn't an alternative to using a mouse or keyboard with an existing app.
A website and a mobile app are, or can be, two different ways for a user to access the functionality you provide. Think of an Alexa skill as a 3rd way to access that functionality. A user could ask the Alexa device (Echo, Dot, iPhone Lexi app, etc) to get or perform the same things that your website does.
So for example, if your website explains how your widgets work, then you could create a widget Alexa skill that would allow Alexa user's to ask about your widgets.
The Alexa Voice Service is something entirely different. It is an API to enable adding Alexa voice to a different piece of hardware. For example, my friend Thaddeus created an Alexa Voice Service app called Lexi that runs on an iPhone. This allows a user to talk to Alexa using their iPhone. However, it doesn't add any new capability to Alexa. It only allows me to do things on my iPhone that I can already do on my Echo.
Hi
I'm trying to develop a simple application in Silverlight to the facebook, I'm using the facebook C# SDK to be able to establish the connection.
I wonder if there is any instruction FQL to invite a friend to the application and keep track of "who invited who" and also if there is any field in FQL to save, for example, the high score of my friends who share the application
thanks
You use requests to send an invite. See this article for more information: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/453