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Alexa Voice Control with IFTTT

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In this tutorial, we'll be using Lightform IFTTT service to connect your Voice Assistant to your device and control playback and trigger effects in real-time.

Requirements

Minimum requirements to use Lightform as defined here
IoT device with an IFTTT service - e.g Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant 
IFTTT Account - to send commands to your Lightform Device using your voice

Please Note
Your device must be registered under your account on cloud.lightform.com

Step 1: Add relevant IFTTT services

Log in to your IFTTT account and add the services for:

  1. your voice-controlled device i.e Amazon Alexa or Google Home
  2. your Lightform Device

AlexaApplications.png 

Step 2: Create the IFTTT Trigger

In the example below, we will trigger a Lightform command whenever we say "Google Next Effect" 

        1.  Under your profile picture in IFTTT, select the Create option

          Screen_Shot_2019-08-14_at_7.54.05_AM.png

        2. Click on +This and search for Google Assistant (or Amazon Alexa)

          Screen_Shot_2019-08-14_at_7.56.48_AM.png

        3. Choose a trigger e.g "Say a Simple Phrase" Screen_Shot_2019-08-14_at_8.51.42_AM.png
        4. Type in your trigger phrase e.g "Next Effect", all the other fields are optional.Screen_Shot_2019-08-14_at_8.52.45_AM.png
        5. Click on "That" to choose your action service and search/select Lightform service  IFTTT_Lightform_Action.png
        6. Choose an action to send to Lightform e.g "Go to next slide" 


          Screen_Shot_2020-07-02_at_11.09.45_AM.png
        7. Type In your Device Serial Number, for IFTTT to connect to your deviceLF_LightformSN.png

 

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Comments

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  • Alexander Naumer

    Thanks for this tutorial! It was very helpful!

    Somehow the I didn't get the "/slide(number)" command to work. All the other OSC Commands work perfectly. Also the predefined "/slide1/color red" is just recognized as a comment but nothing happens afterwards.

    Any suggestions on that maybe?

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  • Christophe

    Thanks! I am glad to hear our tutorial helped you! For the /slide command you need to pass the parameter as a float number (first slide being 0.0) 

    /slide f 0.0 will trigger the first slide
    /slide f 1.0 the second slide
    /slide f 2.0 the third slide
    etc.

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