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silvanmelchior / RPi_Cam_Web_Interface

A web interface for the RPi Cam
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Amazon Echo Spot/Show #429

Open drtp opened 6 years ago

drtp commented 6 years ago

Hi,

I would love to get the RPI_Cam_Web_Interface connected to my Amazon Echo Spot. Unfortunately, it seems there is no Alexa Skill available so far, isn't it?

The only thing I found is a project on GitHub called CameraPi. However, this one is not based on the marvelous RPI_Cam_Web_Interface, which I use for my Raspi Cams.

Best regards,

Thorsten

roberttidey commented 6 years ago

That's an interesting request. I do use Dots myself and have done some skill development for other automation tasks but not for the camera. I don't use a Spot.

A relevant link is the Amazon doc around this https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smarthome/build-smart-home-camera-skills.html

I suspect this is what the 'Camera Pi' started from.

Some parts of the Amazon description are a bit ambiguous. At one point it says it should be a h264 stream but it also lists mjpeg stream as a protocol. If it did include the latter that would make it easier to tie into RPi_Cam_Web, but it would still be a fairly complicated set up.

I'll do a bit more research but don't know how far I could take this. It might be worth seeing if there is any interest in this on the Raspberry forums.

drtp commented 6 years ago

Hi Robert,

thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunately, I am not very familiar with Alexa Skills. Hence, I will wait patiently for some news with respect to this "issue".

Have a nice day,

Thorsten