Turn your raspberry pi into a client for Amazon's Alexa service.

This is compatible with Raspberry Pi 3 (and probably 2).

• A Raspberry Pi 3 (or 2)
• An SD Card with a fresh install of Raspbian Jessie
• An External Speaker with 3.5mm Jack
• A USB Microphone
• A push to make button connected to GPIO 26 and ground

You need to obtain a set of credentials from Amazon to use the Alexa Voice service.

1. login at http://developer.amazon.com/login.html
2. Go to Alexa then Alexa Voice Service.
3. Create a new product type as a Device and give it a name.
4. Create a new security profile,
5. Under the web settings allowed origins put http://localhost:5000 and/or http://my_ip_address:5000
6. Under return URL put http://localhost:5000/code and/or http://my_ip_address:5000

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev
sudo apt-get install python-alsaaudio libasound2-dev mpg123 python-alsaaudio
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

chmod +x service_raspberryecho.sh
sudo cp service_raspberryecho.sh /etc/init.d/RaspberryEcho
sudo update-rc.d RaspberryEcho defaults
touch /var/log/raspberryecho.log

Open the amazon.ini and fill out the values with your credentials.

Then run,

python ./authenticate.py

Get your IP

echo $(hostname -I)

Then, Open http://my_ip_address:5000/

A screen will open. At this point you have to "ALLOW" the application.

Once, approved, you will get a Success with you token

Installation completed. At this point you can either reboot or start the service manually.

Then, press the button and talk with Alexa, she will reply back!