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Re:Apple HomePod – a missed opportunity by marcosscriven on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @09:25AM (#15756957)
That’s a special case as far as I’m aware. Alexa supports ‘Turn on <noun>’ inherently, the hub must be exposing endpoints in the right way for that to just work. 3rd party skills have to follow the more awkward syntax however.
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Re:Apple HomePod – a missed opportunity by darrenf on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:20AM (#15757388)
Ah, I didn't know that. I thought the third party Yonomi skill had just somehow registered "turn on" as an invocation, but upon further reading it seems that's merely an implementation of the PowerController API†. Thanks for enlightening me.

† https://developer.amazon.com/docs/device-apis/alexa-powercon...

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