Control your webOS powered LG TV with amazon's alexa. This is a small DIY smart home project born out of lazyness and curiosity.
First of all the setup of this skill does require some fair amount of developer knowledge, as I am not able to cover everything here. This project consists of a NodeJS HTTP/S webserver in your local network (but has to be reachable by Amazons ASK Services). It handles incoming requests from Alexa and locally communicates with your LG TV.
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Create your own Alexa app in Amazons developer center.
- to Step 4. Only german is supported at the moment (but it can be easily customized, see
src/app.js) - to Step 6. You can choose the name and invocation name as you wish. Keep in mind, that the invocation name is the 'activation phrase' for the skill.
- to Step 7. This skill does NOT use Alexa's AudioPlayer Interface
- to Step 8. Those assets are generated and can be found in the
speechAssets/directory. - to Step 10. As this skill does boot up an HTTP/S server, that is what we want to use.
- to Step 4. Only german is supported at the moment (but it can be easily customized, see
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Install all dependencies with
npm install. -
Configure your environment. First
cp .env.example .env, then manipulate the values in.env.- PORT the port the webserver will run on.
- TV_MAC mac address of your LG TV (used for wake on lan)
- TV_SOCKET ip/host socket connection (used for remote control)
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Run the app with
npm run start. -
Make sure the service connect's to your TV correctly (if it is turned on of course). Then check if the webserver is reachable from Amazon's ASK. It HAS TO BE using HTTPS. You can test connectivty through Amazon's developer center.
Make sure you call them from project root. Instead of npm you can use yarn of course. For all commands check the scripts section in package.json.
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npm run startbuilds and runs the app -
npm run docsbuilds the app and generates the speechAssets
- Turn on/off device
- Volume status, turn up/down
- Media player play/pause/close
- Launch apps
- Switch inputs