Amazon Echo / Alexa app

[CHOUAIBOU]

Hi

The day has finally come true. New Alexa app is available with brand new skill API  v3.0
Amazon just certified our new skills and you can start playing with new options.
Quite a lot has change as Amazon did quite a lot of new functionality.  We fallowed one to one with the implementation as Amazon described.  You will see new terminology which might not sound right but this is as Amazon described it.
Now we have quite a lot of new skills with more advanced control:
Power State - this is equivalent of Switch(New name by Amazon)
Color - You can control RGB object via color commands https://developer.amazon.com/docs/device...oller.html
Scene - Scenes created in Alexa app will be discovered by Alexa under scene tab. They are created with Amazon description with active and deactivate. This is why it is still bit object. https://developer.amazon.com/docs/device...oller.html
Power Level, Percentage, Brightness - All 3 are nearly the same to control 1 byte object. Amazon try to define devices by its function and this is the reason for all 3 options
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/device...oller.html
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/device...oller.html
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/device...oller.html
Lock - As before to control your door. Ask 'Alexa is my door locked?'  
Color temperature in Kelvin - To control temperature of light.  https://developer.amazon.com/docs/device...oller.html
Thermostat: This is bit more complex. Amazon try to integrate several different DIY thermostats and here is why we have all those different options where in fact we need just one.
Thermostat target setpoint - use to control your temperature
Thermostat mode- will change thermostat mode
Thermostat lower/upper setpoint - no real use as there are no voice commands for it.
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smarth...vices.html

Have fun!
BR

Hi Daniel,
Please do you have informations on local features of Alexa ? For example, is it possible to have control of the installation in case of the internet outage ? In others words, what is possible to do with Amazon Echo / Alexa app without internet.

B.R,
Chouaibou.