Amazon Alexa Doorbell skill
Would you like to integrate the Amazon Alexa Echo with your existing Home Automation solution? With the service we provide you can create as many doorbells as you like, then get the Amazon Alexa Echo device to announce and or chime when your doorbell is pressed.
Perhaps your doorbell is not loud enough? Or, you sometimes find you can not hear your doorbell in certain rooms of your house? Use your Amazon Alexa as an extension and make sure you never miss your doorbell ring again!
Once you have linked your Alexa device, created a door bell or two, you can test them out to ensure that they sound your chosen chime, all free of charge.
The Amazon Alexa system can go further than this through the use of Alexa Routines. These are scenes (as shown below) that you can easily create to run when something triggers them, a doorbell press is just one of the many trigger inputs available, you could think of this, not as creating doorbells, but as creating triggers.
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When you are ready to embed this into your home automation controller, you can make use of our API service.
Happy triggering!
How to set up your Alexa device
How to test your new door bell using the web site
Create an account with us
Enter the doorbell name and click Save
- Click on link to test your new virtual door bell
- Click on the Test button to try out your virtual doorbell
How to trigger using the Doorbell REST API
- Create an account with us
- Create a door bell
- Create a premium subscription
- From your doorbell list click on the wand icon, enter your IJPUK password and we create you complete personalized examples ready for you to integrate into your system
Example code
IFTTT (no code option)
When creating your own Applet (https://ifttt.com/create), choose an IF service to trigger your notification and then choose Alexa Doorbell as the THAT service.
Bash (POST)
see a personalised example using doorbell wizard above
Python
see a personalised example using doorbell wizard above
c# (RestSharp)
see a personalised example using doorbell wizard above
go
see a personalised example using doorbell wizard above
Bash (GET)
see a personalised example using doorbell wizard above
For more information on the use of the API service can be found using the Swagger documentation, additionally more complete examples can be found here