Amazon recently released some WebRTC support within Echo devices that contain a screen. (Echo Show & Spot) I will show you how to connect your Echo to a WebRTC client running in a browser and build your own home monitoring solution.
Amazon recently released some WebRTC support within Echo devices that contain a screen. (Echo Show & Spot) This is part of the Smart Home SDK and is primarily designed to connect devices such as video doorbells and security cameras. Over Christmas I sat down and tried to work through this following the less than excellent documentation. I will show you how I connected en Echo to a WebRTC client running in a browser, talk about some of the oddities of the Amazon implementation and how I got around those. The code is a mixture of Python on the server side and javascript in the browser, We'll also cover the basics of Alexa, the SDK's and how to build your first skill as part of this.