[tkgafs]

Thanks guys for the info about self hosting although it doesn't get me much further

I want to self host so that I don't need to open any ports on the router, but by the look of things its impossible to do this despite what the documentation says

I perhaps misunderstand how alexa actually works, I had assumed tat the skill was downloaded to your local device but I guess Amazon host these skills some place, but how does the echo unit get info back from amazon, presumably a web call which it then scrapes for the reply somehow or other.

I have opencloud running locally as well as wsgi

the documentation has the following scattered through its pages

Obtaining Your Internet Address
This skill is hosted in the "cloud," unless you opt to host it yourself locally. As such, it will need to know your internet address to contact Kodi.    [therefore presumably ports have to be opened]

yet the next paragraph states the following

Router Setup
Unless you are hosting the skill locally, it is required that you have the Kodi web server(s) opened up to the internet via port forwarding on your router.

Self Hosting
If you are savvy enough to run your own web server, this is just a bog-standard WSGI app, and you're free to host it on any web server, provided it supports HTTPS [but what gets installed in local server]

Install the modules in requirements.txt [no link here so what are the requirements]

I'll have to go onto github and try and contact developer I think


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