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Get push notification from my own server

Hi there !

Is there any way to send data from my server to my Alexa and get push notification on my Alexa (via account connected).


For instance :

My website get a new order and in backend I send request to Alexa via my Alexa account connected.

Then Alexa receive the request, wake up and enable my skill to tell me 'You get a new order'


I am looking many docs and topics about notifications but doesn't seem to be available.

Thanks for your help.

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Andy Whitworth answered

You can sent notifications to an Alexa device using the Proactive Events API. However the notification content is limited to a number of fixed schemas. There is one for "orders" though (only in en-US locale). You can call Proactive Events from non-Alexa code, so your backend could call it assuming you know the Alexa UserId of the user you want to receive the notification.

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/smapi/schemas-for-proactive-events.html

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Randy Thompson answered

You can use a simple REST API to send notifications via the Notify Me skill: www.notifymyecho.com

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Andy Whitworth avatar image Andy Whitworth commented ·
Nice! I see you got on the old Notifications API public preview then :) I keep wondering when Amazon will turn it off.
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