Investigate controlling Alexa-connected smart home devices

BewhiskeredBard / homebridge-alexa-player

A Homebridge plugin that enables basic smart speaker HomeKit integration for Alexa devices (Echo, Echo Dot, etc.).

MIT License

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Investigate controlling Alexa-connected smart home devices #20

Open BewhiskeredBard opened 4 years ago

BewhiskeredBard commented 4 years ago

Investigate if it's possible to control and monitor Alexa-connected smart home devices from the alexa-remote2 package. If so, this plug-in could be significantly more useful.

BewhiskeredBard commented 4 years ago

Even if it's possible to send commands via alexa-remote2 to control smart home devices, it doesn't look like the existing event stream allows monitoring them, which would be another requirement.

I'm not married to using alexa-remote2 as the underlying service integration for this plug-in. The Alexa app is able to monitor changes to smart home devices in real-time, so there is a mechanism, it just needs to be reverse-engineered.