George Home Automation is designed to be a flexible, private automation platform. We do not use cloud services to store information about your home. Automation functions are performed in your home, by a computer you control. Adding the George Home Automation skill will let you use your voice to control the George Home Automation platform. To get started, you need to download and install the George Home Automation software from here (30 day free trial is available): https://george-home.com/buy. A detailed step-by-step guide to install George Home Automation can be found here: https://george-home.com/documentation. Once you have installed George Home Automation and enabled the Amazon Echo driver, you can link your George Home Automation server to your Amazon Account.