Amazon Echo/ Alexa

[brantome]

(11-11-2016 13:33)simoncn Wrote:  

(11-11-2016 13:15)brantome Wrote:  Any chance you might develop an Alexa skill to allow voice control of minimserver, as I see JRiver are doing for JMC? I realise this has wider implications, but it'd be great to be able to play my local music as well as Spotify, Amazon Music etc

To play music using voice control, you would need Alexa support in the control point rather than the server.

Thanks, I obviously phrased that badly - wouldn't the cloud skill be in effect the control point, accepting the voice to text output from Alexa, and in turn generating UPNP requests? The wider implication I was referring to was an account-based web service that could securely pass requests to your personal local instance of minimserver, much as how I expect, in my relative naivety, the HouseBand skill is doing for JRiver.