Octoprint Alexa Notifications

A plugin for Octoprint to send notifications on the print status to Amazon Echo devices via the Notify Me skill.

Prerequisites

• Enable the Notify Me skill on your Amazon account
  1. Follow the instructions to enable the skill and link your account
  2. Send a notification for the first time. You will receive an email in your inbox of the email address you used to register your Amazon account. The email contains a super long access code.

Setup

Install via the bundled Plugin Manager (NOT YET PUBLISHED) or manually using this URL:

https://github.com/tautomer/OctoprintAlexaNotifications/archive/master.zip

Configuration

1. Once the plugin is installed, you should see a new entry in the PLUGINS section in the settings, called AlexaNotifications.

   

2. Paste the access code in the settings of the plugin.

   

   Alternatively, you can modify the config.yaml file manually like the following example.

   plugins:
     alexa_notifications:
       token: amzn1.ask.account.....

3. Check the print events that you want to be informed of.

   

   Again, you can manually modify the setting files to achieve this.

   plugins:
     alexa_notifications:
       PrintCancelled: true
       PrintDone: true
       PrintFailed: true
       PrintPaused: false
       PrintResumed: false
       PrintStarted: false

4. You should be able to get a notification on your Echos with the information of the job name, elapsed time and error message. The latter two are only available for some events.

Find a bug?

Feel free to open an issue, but before that, it would be great if you can enable the debug output for this plugin like below.

TODO

• Report unrecoverable errors
• Avoid sending notifications to the server too frequently