I even briefly dallied with trying to create a simple skill for the Echo that would play the red alert sound, but it proved to be slightly too complicated for the time I was willing to invest–just a bit too much in the way of programming, and my skills in that department are sorely rusty.īut the other day, as I was mucking around with the Google Home for some articles I’m writing elsewhere, I discovered that the Home’s IFTTT integration is wayyyy superior to the Echo’s. What’s a red alert without a klaxon going off in your ears? Just makes you feel like you’re in a photographer’s darkroom.įuture experimentation took me down some cul-de-sacs: using the Yonomi app, I could instead say “turn on red alert” and get the lights to turn red and blink, but there was also quite a delay. For one thing, there was the whole having to say “trigger red alert” to get IFTTT to respond–booo. It turned out to be pretty easy to create an Alexa keyword to turn my lights red but it was hardly close enough. When I first got my Amazon Echo last year, I thought I’d try my hand at a simple task using IFTTT: creating a Red Alert effect. Look, we’re all nerds here, right? Maybe some of you have never watched a single episode of Star Trek, but I sincerely doubt that’s the case for the majority of you folks.
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