For Amazon Alexa fans, I created a skill to demonstrate how you can not only CONTROL (output) something, but also get/monitor info from your control system (e.g. via a groov API endpoint, with one of our groov Boxes here in the building that’s connected to the internet).
The “skill” creation process wasn’t as clunky as the first time I looked at it (back when the Echo came out). Lots more examples, videos, etc., but it’s still much trickier than something like IFTTT.
Also, I see there are some new Alexa nodes on nodered.org, but I’ve not tried any of them.
Anyone else programming w/Alexa these days?