I have a bespoke application that I would like to control with Tasker and Autovoice using Amazon Alexa as the voice source. I have Alexa, Tasker, Autovoice, and the Autovoice skill all setup. I can say "Alexa, tell Autovoice [tell] searcher find ..." and AutoVoice receives "[tell] searcher find ...". What I would like to say is "Alexa, tell searcher find ..." or "Alexa, searcher find ..." I tried to find a way using Autovoice Smart Home devices but could get Alexa to do anything but try to interpret the utterance but not have Autovoice see it. Is there a way that I can accomplish what I would like to say? I am an experienced programmer and am willing to entertain a programming solution. Regards, Jim
Unfortunately there's no way to change that, sorry. The most you can do is something like this: https://forum.joaoapps.com/index.php?resources/use-amazon-echo-routines-to-run-any-tasker-task.329/
Joaomgcd, Thank you, I will look into the link you sent. Not to be rude, but would the source be a available for the Alexa AitoVoice skill, or is there an Intent or other vehicle I could use to send an input to AutoVoice or Tasker from an Alexa skill of my making? Regards, Jim
OK, using the example you pointed to I can now say "Alexa searcher" and fire up a task. Can you point me to an example where such a task blindly sends an Intent to a bespoke app? I can take it from there as I have a running VR service using the VR support from Android and supported in .Net, but I want to use Tasker to kick the VR service into listening and then the VR service will carry on a dialog using bespoke voice dialog scripts. I considered learning how to do what I want in AutoVoice directly but time constraints prevent that. Maybe some other day. Thanks, Jim O'Brien
What app do you want to call exactly? Do you just want to send a random intent to it? If that's the case check out the Send Intent action. If not, maybe you can use the Shortcut action with it?