Amazon Alexa

Push.Delivery offers the possibility to send push notifications to Amazon Alexa devices.

For that it is neccesary to connect the Amazon Alexa Skill over the API with the push system.

Setup Amazon Alexa in Admin UI

Please go into the "Apps" tab and add a new App.

Give your App a name, e.g. "My Alexa App".

Then select the platform "Alexa".

Upload an icon for the channel. This is only used inside the Push Admin so that you easier can recognize the channels by image.

Also it is required to use a Push template. This template is used to define the information that will be sent with the Amazon Alexa Push.

You can use this default template and modify it to your individual needs:

[
  {
    "operation": "shift",
    "spec": {
      "headline": "data.headline",
      "teaser": "data.shortcopy",
      "*": "data.&"
    }
  },
  {
    "operation": "default",
    "spec": {
      "expiresAfter": 86400
    }
  }
]

All the fields in payload other than "expireAfter" are custom fields and are based on skill. "expireAfter" defines time in milliseconds after which the message will be expired.

To learn more about how to create and modify JOLT templates please follow up in our developer documentation: push-templates

At the end you will be asked for your:

  • Client ID

  • Client Secret

You can find these within your Amazon Alexa account.

After sucessfully creating the App for Amazon Alexa the following information will be automatically shown inside the App:

  • ApiUser: This is the API username.

  • Password: This is the password for the API user.

  • AccessToken: Instead of using username and password an Acess Token is created.

  • platformId: The platform ID.

  • AppId: The App ID.

add alexa app

After setting up the App now it is time to create tags that users can register for.