I installed fauxmo on a raspberry pi, it is meant to make the computer appear like an approved smart device that Alexa can then control. You can fully customise loads of events and so I should be able to run my whole house without having to change anything, and without having to do any of the crazy stuff that lightwaverf like you to do (basically going out to the internet and back in your house again to turn on a light, even though the technology is there to do it all locally). Anyway it did not work, seemingly only work on older amazon echoes, not this new one...
github.com/n8henrie/fauxmo1
raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.
Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe in Kent. Wed + father to two, I'm a full stack web developr, + I do js / Node, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, family tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.