Objective

Comcast would like to develop an Alexa skill and integrate it with RDK 4.0 and demonstrate it on RDK 4.0 reference platforms:-

• Raspberry Pi
• Arris Accelerator Commscope

Following sections will give the architecture details and E2E flow diagram  

Amazon Alexa Voice Control HL Architecture

Architecture proposed for Productization

*rest of the section is not explained based on design made for POC not based on above explained architecture. 

Architecture used for Demo

Amazon AVS setup and configurations

Alexa Skill  creation

Step one: got to https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/ and select your skill name

Step two: got to test tab

Step Three: Type or say your test command, eg: Alexa, tell stb voice move right

Step four: You will get a response, please note the user id – this maps our account to Django server later

Alexa Server configuration

Configure Alexa user  account and STB account

Step one: Go to https://rdkvoice.iptn.io/admin

Step two: Go to  first users link 

Step Three: create a user account  

Step Four: user creation

Step Five: STB account creation

Step Five: STB account creation

E2E Sequence Diagram

API definition

method: "RDK.RegisterNewDevice"

Input:

• "id": "1234567890"

Output:

• "id": "1234567890"

method: "RDK.CompleteRegistration"

Input:

• "id": "1234567890"

Output:

• "id": "1234567890"

method: "RDK.finalizeRegistration"

Input:

• "id": "1234567890"
• availableApplications:[{}]

Output:

• "id": "1234567890"
• result: {available applications in the box}

method: "RDK.LaunchApplication"

Input:

• "id": "1234567890"
• appURI: string
• contentID: string
• searchString: string

Output:

• result : Boolean

Errors:

• error code
  • 1 Application not available
  • 2 content not available

method: "RDK.GetCurrentApplication"

Input:

• None

Output:

• The appURI of the current application

method: "RDK. Navigate"

Input:

• direction: String

Output:

• Result: success

method: "RDK. MediaControl"

Input:

• action: String

Output:

• Result: success

How to configure server

Follow the process outlined in the attached document to configure the server.

Deployment guide.docx

FAQ

Tentative timeline