Setup your Raspberry Pi and get your USB thermometer working. Enable the skill and navigate to the Alexa app at to get your user identifier and secret.Here is a demo console that can be used to interact with the API or to send yourself reminders and other personal messages: The API is already publicly available and I plan on extending it soon. When I first heard about the daily briefing API I was really excited about being able to incorporate these as part of the daily briefing but currently that is not yet possible. Then Alexa can access the stored messages and read them aloud. The idea is quite simple, an API receives messages (such as current temperature as recorded by the Raspberry Pi) and stores them. I couldn't find any general purpose projects so I decided to attempt mine. The solution to my problem was to plug a USB thermometer (TEMPer) to an extra Raspberry Pi I had lying around and have it talk to Alexa. I still needed to know how cold is it before deciding whether I want to turn it on and stay a little longer in bed. My main baseboard heaters are controlled by old-school thermostats but I have an additional radiator connected to a smart plug (TP-Link) that I can turn on and off using Alexa. I live in an older apartment building where smart thermostats are out of the question.
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