Allows Amazon Alexa to control Google Chromecast

Now with 100% less PHP!

#Current Features: ###Play Youtube Videos (Based on Sample Utterances) By saying "Alexa, ask ChromeCast play Jontron Home Improvement", Alexa will send the video URL to your Chromecast Python Script.

###Pause Videos By saying "Alexa, ask ChromeCast to Pause", Alexa will pause the Chromecast.

###Resume Videos By saying "Alexa ask ChromeCast to resume", Alexa will resume playback.

###Changing the Volume By saying "Alexa ask ChromeCast to change the volume to 50", Alexa will change the volume to the specified volume

#Requirements

• youtube-dl
• pymysql (pip install pymysql)
• pychromecast (pip install pychromecast)
• Youtube API Key
• Port Forwarded LAMP server (or WAMP on Windows)

#Installation

• In the index.py, replace all the connection strings with your information.

• Zip up all the files EXCEPT raspberry.py and the speechAssets folder

• On AWS Lambda, Create A new Skill with Basic Execution and The Alexa Skills Kit Event Source with Python 2.7 as the interpreter.

• IMPORTANT: Make sure that index is the event, lambda_handler is the handler, and Python is the Interpreter

• Upload the ZIP to AWS Lambda

• Use intentSchema.json and sample-utterances.txt to set your Intents and Sample Utterances.

• In raspberry.py, replace:

  • the connection string with the same connection string from index.py.
  • YOUTUBE_API_KEY with your Youtube API Key
  • CHROMECAST_NAME with your default chromecast name.

• Upload raspberry.py to your Raspberry Pi

• Run raspberry.py