{"id":2773,"date":"2016-11-12T21:52:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/24-7-home-security.com\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2020-07-31T14:41:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:41:12","slug":"amazon-alexa-skills-kit-jump-starts-integrations-scout-and-garageio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24-7-home-security.com\/amazon-alexa-skills-kit-jump-starts-integrations-scout-and-garageio\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Alexa Skills Kit Jump Starts Integrations with Scout and Garageio"},"content":{"rendered":"
Have you heard of Amazon’s Echo voice assistant? It’s like Siri, only not tied to your phone.<\/p>\n
“Alexa, how many ounces in a cup?” and “Alexa, what’s the weather going to be like tomorrow?” are the original ideas. But Amazon obviously would like to expand on that and is enlisting help.<\/p>\n
Soon, you might see “Alexa, arm Scout” or “Alexa, have Garageio close the garage.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
With the investment from Amazon, I might guess you’d see some progress in the next 3-6 months. Of course, it’s hard to know how much each company is getting. So, Scout could add Echo integration to the current IFTTT support<\/a> before the year is out.<\/p>\n If you’re into hacking, be sure to check out the Alexa Skills Kit developer preview too. It will give you some cool tie-ins to automate things around the home, save you some time, and increase your security.<\/p>\n<\/div> Amazon put out a press release<\/a> on Thursday announcing a new fund to invest in new voice technology innovations. Of the 7 initial investments in the fund, 2 commitments are going to boost companies that’ll help you keep your house more secure, Scout Alarm and Garageio.<\/p>\n If you haven’t heard of either before, Scout Alarm<\/strong> is a new security system the lets you choose if you want a no contract, no fee security system. Or, you can opt to pay up for professional security system monitoring if you choose. The system regularly gets great reviews for it’s design and aesthetics, it definitely won’t look like a 20 year old system hanging on your walls.<\/p>\n The second company that jumped out of the list was Garageio<\/strong>. We did a brief write-up of their smart garage door opener retrofit<\/a> a while ago. It connects to your existing garage door opener and lets you control it from anywhere. So, you don’t have to worry about getting 10 minutes down the road and worrying about whether or not you remembered to close the garage door.<\/p>\n