Getting Apilio to action Alexa commands where there is no native support in IFTTT or Apilio

[robin]

@teknofilo

I don’t understand this: “the Alexa device you have chosen will, unfortunately, speak to you to tell you that it has implemented the command.” My Alexa devices say nothing when a monkey is executed.

It depends on the command. If Alexa pipes up (as it does when configuring the Nest) then it is necessary to silence it. But if you do something such as switch a light on or off then Alexa does this without speaking. I think that customised actions are more likely to get Alexa speaking back to you, which is why the Nest command I use does that (I think!)