Ladies and Gentlemen
Please welcome @Lukask within our community!
Lukas and I worked together to implement the controlling of smart home devices in the alexaechocontrol binding. This means you can control lights, plugs and other devices which are connected directly to the echo device or over a Alexa Skill. Also the Alexa Guard state in US should work, but is not yet tested because of lake of this feature in Europe.
But this features are very new with a lot of new code and so I do not want to have it in the Release Candidate version which should be as stable as possible.
So today we present 2 different versions of the binding. One nearly stable Release Candidate version with the latest bugfixes and a development version with all the cool new features and of course all changes of the latest release candidate version.
New Preview and Beta test thread
To make it easy for you, there are now 2 threads in this community. This one’s supporting the stable version. The other one is a new "Preview and Beta: Amazon Echo Control ".
If you want test our latest feature take a look on the new thread.
New Release Candidate RC3
The RC3 release candidate changed the behavior of the announcement channel a bit. It can now also be used by echo devices. But this causes a breaking change:
If you want to use the channel for Echo Show and Echo Spot devices without a spoken message, please use the JSON syntax format explained in the Tuturial section under Show an announcement on the echo show or echo spot.
The Version can be downloaded from the top most posting of this thread