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alexa-pi / AlexaPiDEPRECATED

DEPRECATED - Use https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi instead ...Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Alexa Client
https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi
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PiFace Digital Support? #52

Closed QuillzLouis closed 8 years ago

QuillzLouis commented 8 years ago

^

sammachin commented 8 years ago

Can you give me some more details?

QuillzLouis commented 8 years ago

So that you can use a piface digital as the button for alexa

sammachin commented 8 years ago

Interesting idea, I don't think it would be too hard to swap out the code from the GPIO to use the piface library but it would then require maintaining either 2 versions or some kind of config and switch. It also feels a little bit overkill to use a PiFace for this when it only needs a very simple push button and Red/Green LED The piface is around £20 isn't it?

I'm going to close this as I don't see that I'm likely to implement it as I don't have a PiFace to test with, however there are a number of comments about using different methods to 'push the button' so if I find a way to support lots of different options which keeping the codebase clean I'll look to include piface as well.