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Gloria asked

Is there any solution I can ask Echo the result read from my humidity sensor?

I'm new to Echo development.

Our company has a humidity sensor with WiFi support.

We want to integrate with Echo.

I already read some document about Alexa smart home, seems there's only API to send command for control of device, but I could not find any way to read data from home device.

Is there any solution?

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ChrisN-f8cf1330-8638-4a3f-afb1-e8295e8a060a answered

This guy did it with a Raspberry Pi:

https://www.hackster.io/xelfer/nick-s-house-echo-pi-weather-b08dde

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Nick Gardner answered

This is something that's not currently possible in the smart home api, but is possible to do via a custom skill. Some providers even offer both a smart home skill for the basic supported functionality and a custom skill for extended functionality that's not supported via the smart home api.

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