Trying to get Alexa to read out a temperature

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And of course, there is always the "Simon says" approach that needs no skills at all

How to get all Alexa requests WITHOUT any other skills

Executive Summary ... just prefix all your house #IoT commands with "Simon Says" And then listen out for them using node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2 Obviously, being called Simon doesn't make this method sound daft to me History I tried a few Alexa nodes out and settled on using @hardillb excellent node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill and that has worked very well for me. Only issue is that you have to pretend your home stuff is lights or a switch etc and limited v…