Update 1st March 2021 – 8pm GMT A tiny bit of progress. Today I had a phone call with the some of the developer facing team at Amazon. They were great! Unfortunately they weren’t able to give any real update, they were merely the messengers between me and their “internal” teams. They had technical questions […]
Site gone down? Get Alexa to sound the alarm with voice alerts! QUICK LINKS That site down feeling How to react fast Down time notifications The new ape on the block Popular monitoring services How to set-up down time notifications through Alexa THAT SITE DOWN FEELING Businesses, developers, webmasters and site owners around the world have all been there. It’s Monday morning, you look at the […]
Flic is an awesome physical button you can push to control smart home devices. You can stick them and re-stick to almost anywhere or even attach them to clothing or other objects using the accessory clip. Useful icon stickers are available too so you know what each button is assigned to do. Plus with one […]
Home Assistant (HA) is a piece of free home automation software for controlling your Smart Home. People use it as the central hub or command centre for their smart home tech. With HA you can link all your devices in just one place and build cool automations based on the state of all your devices. […]
Turning a light on using Alexa Routines is pretty straight forward and common thing to do. But how do you turn the light off later after a set duration of time? This is useful, for example, if you have a room such as a garage where you might want to turn the lights on temporarily […]
Welcome to the new Voice Monkey website! We’re freshening things up around here giving you a new look and an easier to use website. Over the coming weeks and months we’ll be adding new content and making changes to existing pages. Let’s face it, it’s terrible at the moment, so the Voice Monkey dashboard is […]