How To Control Kodi With Alexa Tutorial

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Since creating this tutorial the code has changed. If you want to follow this video you will need to use this older version of the code, I've also found an issue where the code won't upload if there are any spaces or special characters in the name of the folder you've put the files in, so just call the folder on your desktop kodialexa with no spaces and no hyphens or other such characters: https://github.com/m0ngr31/kodi-alexa...

This is a Tutorial to show you how to control Kodi using Alexa. You can ask Alexa to play the latest episodes of your favourite shows amongst other cool voice shortcuts. For a full demo see my previous video:    • How To Control Kodi With Alexa Demonstration  

My tutorial is created from the instructions provided by How to Geek which you can find here if you prefer: http://www.howtogeek.com/249336/how-t...

Thanks to Joe Ipson for the code used in this tutorial. I am not a coder and without him this wouldn't be possible.

Below is a brief overview of the guide with links to the chapters in my video:

1. Explanation as to how all this works: 01:09

2. Setting Kodi up to respond to requests: 02:19

3. Setting up Port forwarding: 03:09

4. Installing Python 2.7.13 and Notepad++ 06:46

5. Creating a user and a role on Amazon's AWS platform 08:00

6. An explanation of dynamic IP addresses and Dynu: 13:30

7. Creating the Alexa skill 18:55

German version of this tutorial here:    • KODI mit ALEXA steuern [Tutorial] [HD]  

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