Alexa Magento 2 Skill - C&M

Alexa Magento 2 Skill for Magento 2 and Amazon Alexa.

Alexa Magento 2 Skill allows to send requests to a Magento 2 website and process reponses using an Amazon Alexa device (such as an Amazon Echo).

User: "Alexa, demande à magento le nombre de clients connectés"
Alexa: "Le nombre de clients et visiteurs en ligne est de 10."

Installation

Get the skill

Clone or download this repository:

$ git clone [email protected]:ClickAndMortar/alexa-magento2-skill.git

Configure the skill

Edit skill.json file to add custom endpoint uri (HTTPS URL of Alexa Magento 2 Module route) and sslCertificateType.

Configure the skill with an exposed webserver

For a Magento 2 website available at https://example.com with a certificate from a trusted certificate authority.

Edit skill.json:

...
 "apis": {
      "custom": {
        "endpoint": {
          "uri": "https://example.com/alexa/v1.0",
          "sslCertificateType": "Trusted"
        }
      }
    },
...

Configure the skill with a local webserver

For a Magento 2 website available at http://localhost:2380.

Using ngrok for exposing a local webserver:

ngrok http -host-header=rewrite localhost:2380

Get URI to use:

Forwarding                    https://<id>.ngrok.io -> localhost:2380 

Edit skill.json:

...
 "apis": {
      "custom": {
        "endpoint": {
          "uri": "https://<id>.ngrok.io/alexa/v1.0",
          "sslCertificateType": "Wildcard"
        }
      }
    },
...

Deploy Alexa skill

Using Alexa Skills Kit CLI:

ask deploy

Install Magento 2 Module

In order to communicate with Alexa device, your Magento 2 must have Alexa Magento 2 Module.