Arduino

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ENABLE ANYONE TO CREATE VOICE-CONTROLLED IOT APPLICATIONS
With the Arduino Alexa skill, you can turn on the lights in the living room, check the temperature in the bedroom, start the coffee machine, check on your plants, find out if your dog is sleeping in the doghouse and many other things. The only limit is your imagination.

No matter if you are a designer, an artist, a hobbyist, a maker or a student, Arduino is your open-source platform to create things that light up, move, and respond to people, animals, plants, and the rest of the world. Arduino provides you with the hardware, the software and the knowledge to build, hack, re-use and modify electronic devices to your own needs.



HOW DOES IT WORK?
Alexa connects to Arduino IoT Cloud to interact with and provide you with the status of your accessories and sensors.

Try saying...
"Alexa, turn on the lights in my bedroom"
"Alexa, what's the temperature in the living room?"
"Alexa, turn on the coffee machine"

WHICH BOARDS ARE SUPPORTED?
At the moment these are Arduino’s IoT Cloud supported boards: Arduino MKR 1000, Arduino MKR WiFi 1010, Arduino MKR GSM 1400, Arduino Nano 33 IoT and many types of ESP8266 boards.
They can be found and purchased here: https://store.arduino.cc

WHAT ACCESSORIES AND SENSORS ARE SUPPORTED?
Currently, the supported sensors are:
- Temperature
- Motion detection

The supported actionable accessories are:
- Light
- Dimmable light
- Colored light
- Smart plug
- Smart switch

HOW DO I CONNECT MY ARDUINO IOT DEVICES TO ALEXA?
First, create a new “thing” by following the procedure on https://create.arduino.cc/iot. If you have connected for example an LED strip to your board, add a "Colored light" property to the “thing”.
In case you haven’t configured your board for Arduino IoT Cloud yet you will be guided through this process as well. A guide to help you get started with Arduino IoT Cloud can be found here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/IoT/HomePage
Wait until the board is connected to your network. Then install the Arduino IoT Alexa Skill and let Alexa discover your IoT accessories. Once your device is found, you will be able to interact with it through Alexa.

WHY SHOULD I USE THE ARDUINO ALEXA SKILL?
Alexa provides you with a convenient and hands-free way of interacting with your smart home devices, sensors, and other IoT accessories.
Do you need to turn on the lights while bringing the clothes downstairs to the laundry while having your hands full? Just say: “Alexa, turn on the lights in the laundry.”
Are you doing the dishes and want to turn off the humidifier in your children’s bedroom without waking them up? Just ask Alexa: "Turn off the humidifier.".