Hello,
I would like to be able to control the smart home devices connected to an Alexa from a client.
Is there a possibility by using the backend from amazon ? Is there a paying offer ?
Is the Smart Home skills only usable through voice ?
Best regards.
The answer to your question depends upon how these smart home devices are connected to Alexa.
Connected Via An Alexa Smart Home Skill
If your smart home devices are connected via a smart home skill, it's assumed that the smart home devices are already controlled outside of Alexa. In this scenario, you as a smart home device manufacturer have your own "device cloud" associating users with devices and it's your own cloud which actually commands devices. The Alexa skill is just a method of sending commands to and retrieving data from your own device cloud.
This is shown in a graphic within the "How the Smart Home skill API works" documentation here:
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/smarthome/understand-the-smart-home-skill-api.html#how-the-smart-home-skill-api-works
Connected Via Smart Home Hub Within Echo Device (For Example Via Zigbee)
If however, you want to programmatically control or query devices which are connected directly to the smart home hub located within some Echo devices (without the use of an Alexa skill at all), then no, this is not a supported feature.
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