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Is it possible to trigger Alexa remotely i.e I have a scenario where based on some action on Mobile App Alexa should be triggered and the response provided will be read out by echo dot.

Varun

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  • My question is related how does Alexa trigger the alarm once it is set by the user – Varun Surana Apr 18 '17 at 09:41
  • alarms are built into the hardware of the device, totally different than the cloud-based alexa services. Writing built-in features is a perk of being an amazon develop – Bryan Stump Jul 19 '17 at 19:18
  • If you're using this for a home project you can use the Amazon Alexa Skills Kit on a device like a Raspberry Pi. Then you can still have access to Alexa but you have more control and could make it receive notifications since you control the hardware. – inic Oct 19 '17 at 14:46

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There's no way to trigger a response without the user interacting with the Alexa-enabled device. But it looks like this may be changing soon: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/16/15647074/alexa-notifications-being-added-amazon-echo

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  • Please avoid posting link-only answers - Welcome to Stack Overflow. Please read the [guidelines](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-answer) for how to answer questions. – Toby May 16 '17 at 23:27
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    Hey Toby. I am a little curious about this. I did answer the question, then gave a link with some new information that provided new context that's coming soon. Is that not ok? Just wanting to understand. :) Thanks. – Jason Harris May 17 '17 at 15:35
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Currently there isn't a way to trigger a response from the device without interacting with the device it's self. Even skills created for the device by third parties currently only have access to get a response immediately (approximately with-in 10 seconds) after an interaction.

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  • I think the period to respond is even shorter. From my experience it's only 5 seconds or less. – unnu Apr 25 '17 at 14:02
  • Totally possible @unnu I'm not sure of the exact time right off. – Seth McClaine Apr 25 '17 at 17:55
  • It's supposed to be 8 seconds from end of speech detection to response started. Developers should set their Lambdas to time out after 7 seconds because of this. – wblaschko May 19 '17 at 16:08
  • Actually I was looking the other day and notice it is configurable up to either 30 or 45 seconds but the default is set to 8 – Seth McClaine May 19 '17 at 21:26