Nomie Pro w/ Amazon Alexa

Track your life with Nomie Pro and the Amazon Alexa

Dependencies

• An AWS account

• A ($9.99) Nomie Pro API Key

Quick Start

Create an AWS Lambda function using alexa-nomie.py as the code You can use test_event.json as your test template

• You can follow the official Amazon instructions to give you a hand

• Consider extending the timeout beyond the default of 3 seconds (I raised mine to 10, which is likely excessive, but eliminated some sporadic errors e.g. #1)

• Put your Nomie API Key into an environment variable called "NOMIE_KEY" and also put your Alexa Skill Identifier in an environement variable called "SKILL_ID". For help view the documentation

• (Optional) If any of your trackers have unpronounceable/incompatible names such as #1, create an environment variable for them (e.g. "pee": "#1")

Create a new Alexa Skill using intent_schema.json and sample_utterances.txt

• Don't publish the skill (because it uses your personal Nomie API Key), leave it in development mode

• Test that it's working from the web interface during the creation of the skill

• Test that it's working with your Echo