AlexaPi Part 1: How and Why to Make

Amazon has updated their "How to make an Alexa" instructions for the 3rd time.

This is a three-part series on Raspberry Pi and Amazon Voice Service (AVS) .

Part 1: How and Why Make an Alexa Pi
In this video, I will discuss why I have built the AlexaPi 3 times on my channel and why you should consider making one yourself.

Materials you will need include:

Resources:

[castercam]

Caroline, all of your videos are terrific. Firstly, you have a great speaking voice. For me that it #1 in any tut video. So many tubers never learn how to speak properly. Great job!

[calvinkwok]

Thanks for taking the time to do all these tutorials.

Like your channel a lot.

[samfenimore]

thank you so very much, i had issues with the previous builds, but this one worked first time. looking forward to the rest of the build..

[aarushsoni]

Hey Caroline, Can you please tell me how I can use an RGB led to indicate device state?

[gavinreniers]

two fold question 1 getting audio via usb card so that you can use w2128b led as it needs onboard sound to generate light

[mayureshpatil]

Very great tutorial... keep making such videos and creative projects... Thanks

[SumanMondal-kphx]

Can i use orange pi with same process?

[cslee]

Can you use a Aiy Voice hat version 1 for this with raspberry Pi 3B+?

[calincordos]

Hi..very good tutorial .. I use raspberry pi2 at the beginning went alexa I did update after tutorial but show me error 404 you can help me ..

[schnullybully]

It works.Hallo nice Video. How can I change the languge to germany. Is this possible

[pritamjitlaishram]

thank you so so so so much its working so well. i am very happy. god bless you mummmmhhaaa

[mayurnt]

Ma’am, stucked at login loop. Login credentials asking again and again...plz help me...

[cipriancmc]

hi...how to use a Bluetooth Speaker with AlexaPi. With analog speakers it's working but not with a bluetooth speaker....thak you from a noob

[simpliaj]

if i make it every thing works but i dont get an audio output please help me

[ZenoModiff]

Am having trouble with the Google assistant for waking it up with the hot word ok Google now am just using a button to do that can u please make a video on that how to make a Google assistant in 2019 like that it would be a great help from your side for me and for all the other struggling with making the Google assistant on 2k19

[farouk]

does this work for the rpi3 model B? please help

[LegenderyGamerZzz]

Hi, everythings seems to work until i download the AVS Device SDK, when it gets to 97% the raspberry pi seems to crash/works extremely slow and the download doesn't continue. Any solutions?

[muhatashimaaqib]

can we play music using voice on AlexaPi?

[samfenimore]

Could you consider doing a tutorial on changing the alexa wake word?

[DavidPazAd]

exelentes videos una lastima que no esten en idioma español