bpa wrote: > Just from looking at the documentation. Effort is part of the issue. > There is also a possible issued that an "LMS Skill Set" has to be a web > service somewhere so either user will have to create their own > webservice or somebody will have to host a webservice for all LMS users. > There may also be a security issues - AFAICT Alexa has to be able to > access the LMS server - which means opening LMS to internet (given that > users have been woken up in the might this is not a good idea) so I > think there may need to be an intermediary somehting like a Squeezy CLI > process to provide some isolation. > > From a user point of view I suspect it may be better to create "skill > set" for specific parts of LMS or rather a single generic one as it > would make control easier (fewer words to say). > > To understand the issues a bit better I have ordered a Dot but I will > have to overcome "unsupported country" issues before even getting near > LMS skill sets.
Hi bpa. Also in Ireland and got my dot last week. Skilling up on skills as we speak and am also considering ways to integrate with Squeezbox ecosystem. I run my skills on my home server in Node-RED so have direct access to all devices etc. but your point is a good one - for anything more than a custom implementation, there needs to be a mechanism for a cloud-hosted skill to access a local LMS. The solution might be in MySqueezeBox.com? According to this post it supports most of the CLI of the LMS; http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104851-Rest-API-for-MySqueezebox-com-any-guidance The documentation is poor enough but if one could figure out user authentication with MSB and find an easy way of configuring the skill with user credentials, it should be straightforward enough to implement the basic API calls. Also with the new suppprt in ASK for audio streams, I could even envision turning the echo itself into squeezebox node. I feel a project coming on.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ meep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12744 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106149 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
