IFTTT (If This Then That) allows you to connect Alexa to 100s of other apps and software services. Trigger IFTTT With Voice Up until now you were limited to starting IFTTT applets using your voice… For example, you could say, “Alexa, trigger find my phone”. Alexa would then tell IFTTT to trigger an applet which […]
Voice Monkey Is Back Online!
Update 17th March 2021 – 11pm GMT Amazon have confirmed that the Voice Monkey Skill is back online! Thank you for everyone’s patience over the past month. Login and sign-up are now open once again. I will check everything is functioning correctly tomorrow, but early reports sound positive! 🙂 Update 12th March 2021 – 3pm […]
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 […]
UPDATE: Flic now has an official Alexa integration! 🙂 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 […]
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 […]