Playground experiment - Alexa Skill

Requirements

• Amazon developer account
• AWS Account
• Playground instance (https://playground.shopware.com/)

Create a new Skill

• Login to Amazon developer Account
• Goto the Alexa console (https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/ask)
• Create a new Skill
• Enter skill name, default language
• Goto the JSON-Editor https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/ask/build/custom/{SKILLID}/development/{LANGUAGE}/json-editor
• Paste model of you language
• Configure Account Linking
  • Login to your playground instance
  • create an integration
  • back in the amazon account
  • Authorization grant type: Auth code grant
  • Authorization URI: {URL-TO-YOUR-PLAYGROUND}/customer/oauth/authorize
  • Access Token URI: {URL-TO-YOUR-PLAYGROUND}/customer/oauth/token
  • client id: Access key ID of the new created integration
  • client secret: Secret access key of the new created integration
  • client authentication scheme: HTTP Basic (Recommended)

Configure lambda/constants.js

• Set the BASE_URL to your playground instance (e.g. pg.shopware.com)

Create lambda function

• Login to your AWS Account
• Goto Lambda functions (https://eu-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/lambda/home)
• Create a new function
• Choose a name
• Choose as runtime Node.js 8.10
• Choose or create a role (the role must also have access to Amazon DynamoDB)
• Create function
• Add Alexa Skill Kit as trigger to the skill
• Add the App-Id of the Skill (https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/ask/build/custom/{SKILLID}/development/{language}/endpoint)
• Add the ARN of the lambda to the Skill (It starts with arn:aws:lambda:)
• install dependencies local cd lambda; npm install
• zip the content of the lambda folder cd lambda; zip -X -r Skill.zip *
• upload the zip
• Save