This article explains how to connect your Felik to Amazon Alexa using the free IFTTT service.
- Register an account with IFTTT.
- Enable Felik's API access.
- Head over to the My Applets section in the top left corner of IFTTT's website
- Click on the New Applet button
- Click on the blue +this text
- On the Choose a service screen search for Alexa
- On the Choose a trigger screen, click on Say a specific phrase
- Type in the phrase you want to use. You can just type in felik for now.
- Click on the blue +that button (the +this button should now be replaced with an Amazon Alexa logo)
- Search for the webhooks service
- On the Choose action screen, click Make a web request
- In the URL field, type in your remote endpoint URL, followed by /api/start?secret= and add your API key to the end.
For example: https://02c000811cab8ef0.relay.us-west-2.1.felik.net/api/start?secret=FSFklklOiHwwtWk6
Set the request type to POST. It should look like this:
- OPTIONAL: If you want to set the duration of the play session (default: 10 min), then you can specify that in the request body. To do so, select application/json from the Content Type dropdown and paste {"duration":5} into the Body field (you can replace the 5 with any number from 1 to 30 indicating the play session duration in minutes):
- Click Create action to save the new applet.
That's it! You can create as many such applets as you want. If you wish to create an applet that will stop a current play session, change /api/start to /api/stop in the request URL.
NOTE: if your applets stop working, this could be because your remote endpoint URL has changed. It normally should not happen, however if you move to a different geographical region or we add additional relay servers to our cloud infrastructure, Felik will always pick the fastest server based on latency from your current location. If this happens, you will need to update the request URL of your applets to match the new remote endpoint URL reported by the Felik app.
