Building a Custom Alexa Skill - Part 4
Whelp . . . my progress has taken 3 steps forward and 2 back. One thing I have learned (and being an old software dev, I should have known this), that granularity is king.
I originally had one:
HouseLightIntent
Once I got into it, the complexities of supporting “On/Off, brightness, color” in a single endpoint got “messy”.
As such, I have broken out my Intents to be:
HouseLightsOnOffIntent
HouseLightsBrightnessIntent
HouseLightsColorIntent
With URLS that look like this:
const houseLightsOnOffURL = 'http://<mydomain>:1880/endpoint/lightsOnOff';
const houseLightsBrightnessURL = 'http:// <mydomain>:1880/endpoint/lightsbrightness';
const houseLightsColorURL = 'http:// <mydomain>:1880/endpoint/lightscolor';
This has led to NodeRed Flows that look like this:
Inbound Requests:
Processing:
As you can see, this is a lot “cleaner”.
Keep in minds kids . . . granularity is king 