Alexa skill to tell you the number of satellites overhead.
This AWS Blog Post is a good introduction to creating an Alexa Skill with Zappa and Lambda.
To get started:
$ pip install flask-ask zappa requests awscli
I had previously created a zappa-deploy IAM user w/ AdministratorAccess privledges. I did add a [zappa-deploy] section with the appropriate keys to ~/.aws/credentials.
$ zappa init
Mostly selected the defaults, although I did tell it to use the zappa-deploy config. This creates a zappa_settings.json. I don't track this file in git because it contains a sensitive environmental variable.
What not to do is add it to .gitignore and remove it with
$ git rm --cached zappa_settings.json
as this will delete the file... which is wrong, because you need it for zappa to run.
I should have just done:
$ git update-index --assume-unchanged zappa_settings.json
I order to supply the N2YO api key in a marginally secure manner, I added it as an environment variable that is set via the zappa_settings.json (instructions):
"environment_variables": {
"N2YO_API_KEY": "KEYVALUE"
}
To actually push your endpoint to production:
$ zappa deploy dev
Kept getting errors like:
(satellite_pass) satellite_pass $ pip install flask-ask
Collecting flask-ask
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/6a/f5/d4709ae94584a0b1541e9b52b2d25a8a1bdb6e2da9d6870f23fdd0523a30/Flask-Ask-0.9.8.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/private/var/folders/fn/2wspq0zs4qx9s5wyct0k87bc0000gn/T/pip-install-pbzq0cuf/flask-ask/setup.py", line 8, in <module>
from pip.req import parse_requirements
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip.req'
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/fn/2wspq0zs4qx9s5wyct0k87bc0000gn/T/pip-install-pbzq0cuf/flask-ask/
Fixed it by specifically installing the latest versino of flask-ask:
$ pip install flask-ask==0.9.7