IlliniLaundry - Amazon Alexa version

Tired of checking your smartphone for laundry status? Try out IlliniLaundry, now on Amazon Alexa!

Available on the Alexa Skills Store here!

Requirements

1. Node.js v4.3.2

Setup

First install NVM to download v4.3.2 of node (Other versions are not supported by AWS lambda!)

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.1/install.sh | bash
nvm install v4.3.2
nvm alias default v4.3.2
nvm ls

For local testing please use alexa-app-server. More documentation found here.

# installs alexa-app-server along with its dependencies
git clone https://github.com/matt-kruse/alexa-app-server.git
cd alexa-app-server
npm install
# places illini laundry in the correct repo and installs dependencies
cd examples/apps
git clone https://github.com/illiniLaundry/illiniLaundry-alexa.git
cd illiniLaundry-alexa
npm install

Running Locally

Now that we have alexa-app-server set up we can run the server and test out intents simply and easily.

# change to the examples directory (replace with whatever path you have)
cd path/to/alexa-app-server/examples
node server
# Now you can navigate to your web browser at localhost:8080/alexa/illinilaundry

The web server also has schemas for intents and utterances that can be copied over if you want to deploy onto your own amazon account for testing with a real alexa device.

Contributing

PR's are encouraged. Easiest way to contribute would be to expand 'dorm_map.js' if you encounter any awkward ways alexa attempts to recognize dorm names.

Special Thanks

• Minhyuk Park
• Eric Lee