I was looking for a feature that makes my echo dot to say the time in 24 hour clock. But I dont think the folks at Amazon haven't thought everything through. AM/PM is just annoying. So I thought why not make it myself and try it out on my echo dot. Coz requesting the feature through the app and asking for it on the forums didn't help much. At least this way, I will get to learn something new in the process.
But here's the thing, I have never worked on AWS or any Amazon related development. So I have virtually zero idea of where to start. All I know is that if it remotely comes close to JAVA, i think I should be able to make it work!
So I had a few question about my mission! :)
Is it doable? From the point, that, would it be some copyright violation or something?
I went on to the AWS website and started looking for some guides, do I have pay for use of their service for the dev work?
And I found that there are a few kits mentioned on the site like "alexa-skill-kit-sdk" and "alexa voice skill" or something similar, for this would I need both or just the voice part.
Where can I get some voice samples? Or to make it work, I have to record my voice with all the combinations of the time?
Since I am just starting at this, I dont have much idea about where to start.
Some answers for you, first no programming is required to provide 24 hour (military) time declaration from your Alexa device if you ask your device, Alexa, " What is the time in Military time?" She will give you time in 24 time format. Secondly to program a custom skill you could follow this perfect for beginner chart https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/alexa-skill-python-tutorial . There are also non programmed ways to make an application using blueprints https://blueprints.amazon.com/ . Lastly utilizing AWS ask-cli you can create a fully functional 'hello-world' application simply by typing ask new then ask deploy in your terminal https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smapi/quick-start-alexa-skills-kit-command-line-interface.html.