Turn on alexa with Arduino wirelessly

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Hi all,

Essentially, I would like to be able to have arduino turn on alexa (have it play music) when the arduino receives a signal from a switch. So when that switch gets triggered, arduino is able to have alexa wake up wirelessly to play music.

I am new to arduino and am not sure how to connect my arduino to alexa wirelessly and program it to play music. My thoughts so far is to have the switch connected to Arduino and then use the ESP8266 to communicate to alexa wirelessly. I am not sure how to program the ESP8266 to connect to alexa let alone if that is the right item for what I am wanting to achieve.

Some guidance and advice for what I need to do to achieve this project goal would be beneficial!

Thanks in advance!

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You need to look how Alexa works in a bit more detail, I don’t think you can talk it wirelessly , all coms is via Alexa’s web host ( check that ) .
There are some projects out there that make Arduino spoof a commercial device and control it that way .
There are also other techniques for working with Alexa - google or look at Arduino IOT .

Can you not just shout to Alexa to play some music. ?

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Thanks for the response. The goal is to hook up a magnetic door sensor to the arduino so when the door opens, that pings the alexa to start playing music.

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Do some searching. People have interfaced Arduino to Alexa. I think skills was a term I saw when I last looked at how to do it.

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