Amazon Echo/ Alexa

[brantome]

Yeah, I might do that, thanks, although I'm happy with what House Band are doing with JMC. From what little I've gleaned about developing Alexa skills is that Amazon parses what's been said and compares that against template 'utterances' defined for that skill, with the matched utterance and variable bits then passed to the skill. It's it that point I guess the skill knows what to pass on - and in what format - to its server, whether that be JMC or a generic UPNP server...
(And the author isn't affiliated to JMC but I think is getting their full support in terms of advice etc)