OpenHAB Alexa Skill

[Michdo93 (Michael Doerflinger)]

Hi,

I have found various instructions here on how I should be able to deploy openhab-alexa myself. Now all tutorials are relatively old. I have also tried one or the other very unsuccessfully.

But now I have a general question about this. Can I deploy this at all without AWS? AWS costs yes. Apparently it is only free for the first 12 months. In the latest version of the repository, I don’t see any way to deploy this via NodeJS. I have my own server, so why should Amazon make money from me? Is there a tutorial where you can only deploy via your own server and NodeJS? Can this work at all, or has Amazon virtually denied this option again with an update?

Kind regards

[jeshab (Jeremy)]

@Michdo93

I have found various instructions here on how I should be able to deploy openhab-alexa myself. Now all tutorials are relatively old. I have also tried one or the other very unsuccessfully.

You should use the instructions on the project GitHub page.

GitHub - openhab/openhab-alexa: openHAB skill for Amazon Alexa

@Michdo93

Can I deploy this at all without AWS?

You could deployed the skill using an https endpoint but you will have to do it manually as I don’t believe the ASK CLI tool supports that deploy method.

@Michdo93

AWS costs yes. Apparently it is only free for the first 12 months.

The AWS Lambda free tier should cover the cost of the skill usage.