Open Skills by an Alarm
This feature would be similar to playing music with an Alarm but it would open a skill.
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Callen T Shaw
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Timers would be a good solution for this, but they are severely limited with the 2-hour restriction. Allowing users to set Timers later in the future, (with a sensible limit of 24 hours, 2 days, 1 week?) would enable a ton of great experiences. It could be protected from abuse by making the api use a date/time utterance slot, so you're sure the user specifically requested the date/time for the timer.
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German Viscuso
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The new Timers API allows skill developers to create a timer within the skill and on completion call a Task in a skill (via https://alexa.design/skillconnections)
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Brantome
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You should be able to do this soon via a scheduled routine as Amazon have announced their intention to allow users to add skills to a routine.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/06/amazon-alexa-routines-sunrises-email-alarm-smart-cameras/ -
Nick Schwab
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Upvoted! I get many support emails from Alexa customers wishing to use their favorite ambient sound/sleep sound as an alarm.
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SIM Developers
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Allow users to say "Alexa, wake up with {{Any enabled Skill name here}}."
Would this require developers to implement a specific intent? -
Robin Jewsbury
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and also allow skills to be opened from routines as well as alarms. eg when I say "alexa, good morning" after it tells me the weather it then tells me when my next train is