The kind of Alexa smart home skills API for entertainment devices is really exciting for developers. There are many built-in interface that are already there like the ones below - Alexa.PowerController, Alexa.ChannelController, Alexa.InputController, Alexa.PlaybackController, Alexa.StepSpeaker and Alexa.Speaker.
Apart from this is there a possibility to add a custom interface within smart home skill API.
Eg: I would like to add a capability to "Open an application within a TV", or "set/change the picture style within TV". Such kind of interfaces more often would be specific to a particular TV manufacturer. Is there a way i can extend the smart home skills API to implement the above without having to write a custom skill using ASK.
There are 2 limitations with custom ASK.
1) There has to be an invocation name for a request
2) Concept of endpoint which is available in smart home skill is missing. Suppose there are 2 or 3 TVs in a home, we need to use a location to identify the TV like bed room, main room etc... Whereas with smart home skill we could identify it using the friendly name. So when you talk about a setting on a TV using its friendly name, AWS lambda always got endpoint information.
