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sasmith / alexa-baby-tracker

An Alexa skill to record data to Baby Tracker
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You have no idea how badly I want this #1

Open jayjudah opened 6 years ago

jayjudah commented 6 years ago

New dad here, with eager but minimal tech experience. I have no idea how to implement this for myself but it would make my life much easier - no idea why they haven't officially released something like this yet. After a DEEP deep google give, yours looks like the only promising result. If I weren't operating in 'new parent zombie mode' i might be more inclined to start messing around under the hood -- but is there any chance you could publish this as a real skill for more tech-illiterate folks? Or do a fellow dad a solid and write a "amazon lambda AWS linux publishing for dummies" version? My email is my username @gmail - would LOVE to get this working!!

windraver commented 6 years ago

@jayjudah,

I was trying to do the same with Google home, IFTTT, and Tasker integrated via autoremote and autoinput which does the actual UI interfacing but I can see in this GIT there is code that can likely be repurposed to work for your own account.

polohero commented 6 years ago

Why not use baby stats? It has all of that built in already and has a public API you can use to build on top of it.

polohero commented 6 years ago

www.babystats.org

windraver commented 6 years ago

@polohero The ui and options to view within baby Tracker is much better than baby stats. I tried baby stats and didn't like it much.

AriGonzo commented 5 years ago

@polohero babystats has all the guts of what I need as well but unfortunately that UI can use a lot of work... especially considering a lot of people using the app are likely sleep deprived an intuitive UI can go a long way. Great work on the technical side of it though

polohero commented 5 years ago

@AriGonzo if you haven't already, check out the redone UI. It looks identical to this link (but this is a fake account for testing) https://www.babystats.org/viewer?id=FAKER. It's designed to be a pretty simple UI for seeing/tracking stats.

If you have any ideas on what can be improved let me know and I can definitely change it. I built Baby Stats for myself originally and enhanced it as people asked for more functionality or as I needed something.

Or if you have front end experience you can build your own UI on top of the public API (https://www.babystats.org/help#publicAPIHelp), and I can make additional viewers as an option for anyone else to use as well (the same way you can switch between viewing modes under Settings, I can add fan built ones).

Though at the end of the day use whatever is best for you to survive your newborn phase :).

AriGonzo commented 5 years ago

Haha yeah totally! I’m a week away from my second being born but your UI overhaul is interesting!

I’m a front end dev so I might try to tool around with it. What is the mobile app written with? Is it native code or does it use a react native/cross compiler?

polohero commented 5 years ago

I'm using GoNative now, so it's using the local web viewer to render it, and the website is jQuery. So, anything that's web based would be able to work basically.

Originally I was doing native dev (probably the Android app you saw/used), but I needed to move faster and couldn't maintain the different code bases. I'll switch to react, with react native sometime later in this year.

AriGonzo commented 5 years ago

Awesome! I’m a react dev and I’ve wanted to dabble with react-native. I’ll see if I can come up with something in the meantime. Hopefully the baby doesn’t come early and I get to deploy some code!

polohero commented 5 years ago

Cool. We can continue this on another forum instead of taking up this thread :). You can get in touch with me by going to babystats.org and chatting on Facebook messenger, or you can shoot me an email at support@babystats.org.

georgediaz88 commented 5 years ago

Hi there!

I created a baby tracker app, Tinytracks, to solve all these pain points which I also encountered as a new dad. Tinytracks has Alexa integration as well. It's available on both iOS and Android. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Link: Tinytracks app