Feature Request: Add Alexa Skill about amplipi HOT 7 OPEN

This might be a good place to start: https://github.com/alior101/Alexa-Volumio-Plugin

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+1 for this. It's the only thing stopping me from dropping Sonos at this point. I'd be looking at a core and 2 expanders for my house.

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It looks like it would be pretty easy to control volume and mute based on an interface similar to this one adapted for home bridge. We will try to start looking at this in the next couple of weeks.

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Thanks, Lincoln, my biggest thing would be able to add each zone as a device that Alexa would be able to recognize. For example, I'd love to let my kids say "Alexa play Kids Bop Radio on Pandora (or Spotify) on the Deck" This is the only way my kids know how to make that happen today (under 10) and without that the wife acceptance factor would fall through the floor.

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That is exactly how we would want it to work! Jason's house, which is currently getting the brunt of our testing has about 10 Alexa devices scattered around, so adding support for this is high up on our priority list.

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I'm down in Novi if you want a second complex test location with 14 zones

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Wow that is close! We might reach out sometime in the future when we have something ready to test.

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