Hisma wrote: > > Thanks for your hard work on this. This clearly took a lot of time and > effort. I will say though it is definitely a "techie only" setup for > sure. I'm fairly savvie and it took me about 8 hours to finally get it > working! It was mostly due to the quality of documentation though. > While you do have pretty much everything covered, there are a lot of > "holes" in the documentation that the user is expected to fill in and > really messed me up. Also, because there are multiple ways to get this > working (ssl, mqtt, aws iot etc) it was difficult to discern which way > was specific. > > I think spending a few hours on improving the documentation would go a > very long way, and allow more "normal" users to adopt this great > software. By the end I didn't find it too entirely difficult to set up > (though definitely not easy!), but it was just a whole lot of steps. >
Thanks, and yes. Documentation is always hard, and trust me I've spent quite a few hours on this :). It's made a lot trickier by the diversity of people's setups (Windows / QNAP / Synology / RPi / other Linux) and the speed at which Amazon change their mind about Alexa management, and even AWS Lambda setup. Also, moving to a multi-lingual setup has made this necessarily more complicated now (-most- of which is hidden in my release process) I started spending more time on automating the process as it was clear that scripting this was better than documenting every single bit, but I'd *love* some help on improving the docs, seeing as I set mine up ages ago now and the pain points are lost a little. Perhaps you have some ideas on how to improve this or at least which bits were harder? > > Otherwise, I hope you continue to update and improve this, you have a > very good project on your hands here. I am using ssl and it's lightning > fast... commands are nearly instanenous, which is quite incredible since > every other typical alexa command has a noticeable delay. Great! Yes, I've been quite pleased at the low latency nature, outperforms all my "native" home automation commands by far. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nickb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107009 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
