An Experimental Alexa Skill for SoundTouch - Local Server Component

Overview

This repository contains one of the three components necessary enable Alexa to control Bose SoundTouch speakers. The other two required components are:

• AlexaSoundTouch_AlexaSkill
• AlexaSoundTouch_RemoteServer

This Local Server Component tracks presence and activity of SoundTouch speakers on the same network, and communicates with an AlexaSoundTouch_RemoteServer instance to broker commands and status updates.

Setup

These instructions assume you already have already completed the setup instructions for both your AlexaSoundTouch_RemoteServer instance and your AlexaSoundTouch_AlexaSkill instance. They also assume installation on a machine running Ubuntu 14.04 on the same local network as your SoundTouch speakers.

1. Ensure these apt packages are installed: git-core, libnss-mdns, libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev, build-essential
2. Ensure node v4.x is installed
3. run git clone https://github.com/zwrose/AlexaSoundTouch_LocalServer.git
4. Enter the newly cloned directory and run sudo npm install
5. Edit server.js to set the appropriate bridgeBasePath and bridgeID variables. bridgeBasePath should be the path to your AlexaSoundTouch_RemoteServer instance. bridgeID should be your AlexaID as determined in AlexaSoundTouch_AlexaSkill setup step 7.
6. run sudo node server.js

You may choose to use a process manager such as PM2 to ensure the server stays running.