Install the ask command-line interface for Alexa on macOS: Step-by-Step Instructions

First off, make sure that you have the ASK CLI installed on your local machine. See the instructions listed on the official Alexa docs here: -US/docs/alexa/smapi/quick-start-alexa-skills-kit-command-line-interface.html.

Install the ask command-line interface for Alexa on macOS

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Developing apps for Amazon Echo, called Alexa skills, is different than developing for other devices such as Android or iOS smartphones. Alexa skills are not installed on the actual device. Instead, they are web services hosted in the cloud. When a user wakes an Echo device and makes a request, that request is sent to the Alexa service in the cloud. If the request was intended for your app, the Alexa service sends a request to your app, waits for the response, and delivers the response to the user. You can develop the web service for your Alexa skills using any programming language as long as you respect the Alexa REST interface which uses JSON payloads over HTTPS.

When your openHABian box does not get Internet connectivity through either Ethernet or WI-Fi (if configured), openHABian will launch a Hotspot.Use your mobile phone to scan for Wi-Fi networks, you should be seeing a new network called openHABian- with being a digit.Connecting will work without a password. Once connected, most smartphones will transfer you to a web page.If this does not happen on your mobile device, open your browser on the mobile and point it at or -.This may or may not work for your mobile browser as it requires Bonjour/ZeroConf abilities.If you cannot connect to this address, go to that page you can select the SSID of the network you want to connect your system to.Provide the password and press the button.Note that as soon as you do, the wlan0 IP address of your system changes so your mobile browser will not be able to provide you any feedback if that worked out.Try to ping the new system's hostname (default is openhabian) or check DHCP on your router if your openHABian system appeared there.You can use sudo comitup-cli inside openHABian to change networks and eventually remove network credentials.Note the hotspot may not only become available during installation: it will remain on standby and will show up again every time your wlan0 interface is losing connectivity.For more information on hotspot functions see comitup-cli (opens new window). Most behavior can be tweaked by setting parameters (such as a default password) in /etc/comitup.conf.The hotspot feature is known to work on RPi0W, RPi3, and RPi4 but is known to often expose problems with Wi-Fi USB adapters.

Watch the progress on the console or the web interface at (opens new window) or (opens new window) if that name has become available.Double-check the IP address and name with your router while you wait.If there is absolutely no output for more than 10 minutes, your installation has failed in the first initialization phase.There probably is a problem with the way your router or local network are setup.Read on in the Troubleshooting section or move on to the DEBUG guide.You can set debugmode=maximum in openhabian.conf right on first install, too, to get to see what openHABian is doing

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