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Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: kitz on April 17, 2017, 01:54:10 PM
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I stumbled across this the other day and thought it may be a brilliant idea for those who want to know how their network is performing.
Connect your PRTG to your Amazon Echo/Alexa (https://www.paessler.com/blog/alexa-skill-for-prtg?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=blog-Your+admin+dreams+have+come+true%21+Monitor+your+network+with+your+voice+and+Amazon+Echo.+Click+View&utm_campaign=Your+admin+dreams+have+come+true%21+Monitor+your+network+with+your+voice+and+Amazon+Echo.+Click+View)
Link to watch video - here (https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/ecz3s7dj8z?videoFoam=true&wvideo=ecz3s7dj8z).
Now then Eric, we just need for you to get it working with DSLstats and think how happy we'd all be ;D
"Alexa. Whats my current SNRm?"
"Alexa. How many CRCs today?"
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/me goes and hides before the wrath of Roseway descends :lol:
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I'll put it on the todo list :crazy:
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This looks like it may be possible to use IFTTT to fire off http get/post requests to Dslstats inbuilt web server to obtain the wanted information like current snrm for example and have Alexa control submission of IFTTT recipes :)
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It probably is possible, but I should imagine would require a fair bit of work for someone to implement.
However as far as Im concerned DSLstats is a diagnostic tool first and foremost with the graphs of events being most useful. You couldn't really convey that by speech.
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With further reading it seems that IFTTT is a dead end and the solution would have to be natively developed through Amazon. I ran across some bignerdranch training in partnership with Amazon that instructs how to develop for Alexa - https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/big-nerd-ranch
I think the fundamental thing necessary to enable simple development will be utilizing the dslstats webserver to query the stats and get a response that Alexa can say.