Has anyone played with the Amazon Alexa skill integration with ambientweather.net?
If you haven't yet tried it and you have an Amazon Echo you should check it out. It is pretty neat. (I haven't tried Google Home Assistant yet).
Just say, "Alexa ask Ambient Weather for the weather report" and it will speak back all that stats from your console (well actually from your station's Ambientweather.net dashboard).
I have discovered that Alexa will give me the current conditions and it will separately give me the indoor conditions. However I have not been able to get it to give me yesterday's weather nor the weather for a specific previous month. The Ambient website shows these example as skills that should work. But when I ask, "Alexa ask Ambient Weather about the weather yesterday." It talks back and reports that my station was not reporting yesterday and to make sure that my station is plugged in and connected to the Internet. It says the same thing that my station was not reporting in December or any other month. I've had my station reporting with no issues for several months so Alexa is lying. Is anyone else also experiencing this? I'd just like to confirm to see if it is just me. If not I guess perhaps it needs to be reported to Ambient that there is an issue.
Here are the skills that Ambient has published that are supported with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant (from Ambient site):
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Works with Amazon Alexa:
The Ambient Weather skill provides Ambient Weather personal weather station owners with the ability to get real-time, and past weather information generated by the devices they have set up at AmbientWeather.net.
Enable the skill and get started: say "Alexa, ask Ambient Weather for a weather report." This will provide you with your outdoor weather report, but you can ask for your indoor weather report as well by saying, "Alexa, ask Ambient Weather about the indoor conditions."
You can also ask for a report about a specific day, month or year! Just say "Alexa, ask Ambient Weather about the weather yesterday." or "Alexa, ask Ambient Weather about the weather in May." or "Alexa, ask Ambient Weather for the weather on August 4th."
Works with the Google Assistant:
The Ambient Weather app provides Ambient Weather personal weather station owners with the ability to get real-time, and past weather information generated by the devices they have set up at AmbientWeather(dot)net.
Link your account get started: say 'hey google, Ambient Weather'... weather report.' This will provide you with your outdoor weather report. You can also ask for your indoor weather report as well by saying, ' indoor conditions', or request the weather history on a specific date.