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Reputation: 171

Trigger notification on specific Alexa device

I saw a few posts with similar question but they are all outdated and not really answered. The idea is to trigger a notification on a specific Alexa device. For example through another Alexa in the same network or over phone remotely. Before I get my hands dirty is something like this possible at all?

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 1505

Answers (2)

DavidCC
DavidCC

Reputation: 370

The Proactive Events API can target a specific user_id (amazon account), but at this point I haven't discovered any way to narrow that down to a specific device.

Upvotes: 0

ampathak
ampathak

Reputation: 51

I guess what you are looking for is Proactive Events.

What you can do is use these APIs in your skill to send notification to the customers of your Alexa skill to their respective Alexa devices.

Alexa Docs for ProactiveEventsAPI :

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/smapi/proactive-events-api.html

They support a set of pre-defined templates(schemas) for different type of notifications that can be sent. These are listed here:

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/smapi/schemas-for-proactive-events.html

If you don't find the one suitable for your use case they also provide you option in the same schema listing page to submit your request to them.

Alexa's developer blog on the same with link to step-by-step building instructions for a demo skill which uses ProactiveEvents API:

https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/bbf23596-766a-4e7c-8d74-cbfc234b6791/how-to-send-media-event-notifications-to-your-alexa-skill-customers

Other resources I found on web for the same which might be useful:

Upvotes: 1

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