Finally got round to blogging about my DIY take on the Alexa <->
Squeezebox integration, with a few (very amateur) demo videos:
'squeeze-alexa demos'
(http://declension.net/posts/2017-01-03-squeeze-alexa-demos/)
Hopefully will find some time to make it useful to others.
meep wrote:
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> What I'd like to do is get a basic proxy implementation up and running,
> then focus on the skill enhancement so I can get something into the wild
> for people to play with. Then, I can come back on focus on enhanced
> security such as encryption, certs etc.
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> Thanks again
meep wrote:
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> The purpose of the proxy is to validate that inbound requests come from
> the Alexa skill and that the userID supplied matches that stored in the
> plug-in. Only traffic that meets these criteria will be passed along to
> LMS.
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> The proxy runs on a user specified port (not
snoopy86 wrote:
> Great work!! Cant wait to try this.
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> As for security, we know what ip-s is amazon using and on router you can
> allow only this ip-s to connect to open port.
I'm pretty sure this isn't feasible: AIUI, Lambda doesn't make any
guarantees about where in the AWS estate it
Great work meep! Kinda wish I'd come back to these forums earlier,
actually, as...
...separately, I've hacked together most of a(nother) Alexa ->
Squeezebox integration, more of a "PoC with encouraging results"
currently and not as advanced as this.
Interesting to see how different people have