> You can use Alexa to turn off the lights, ask it how much gas is left in your car, or order a pizza.
I'm getting a bit tired of these examples. Is there a comprehensive list of things Alexa can do?
I'm getting a bit tired of these examples. Is there a comprehensive list of things Alexa can do?
That's all in addition to the basic things it can do out of the box, like set timers and reminders, manage a todo list, play music and books (from an admittedly limited set of sources), tell (mostly bad) jokes, sync with your google calendar and respond to questions about upcoming events, tell you the weather forecast, read off headlines, and a bunch more.
To a greater or lesser extent, it's like a living room installation of Siri.
[1] https://ifttt.com/amazon_alexa [2] http://alexa.amazon.com/#skills (might require you to already have an Echo)
The only assumption you need to make is that actions on all server-delivered forms are collapsed into a single "make a network request" verb; otherwise you do get the infinite expanse of actions that is the web.
Just saying it can do anything because internet is misleading and doesn't tell me where the walls are. Unless there already exists a "skill" that can give me load average, player count and tick rate on my Minecraft server.. :)