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Introducing Multi-Capability Skills
Introducing Multi-Capability Skills: Expand Your Device Experience by Combining Smart Home and Custom Skill Models into a Single Skill.
Expand Self-Service Prototyping for ACK
Get Your Alexa-Connected Devices to Market Even Faster with Expanded Self-Service Prototyping Using Alexa Connect Kit.
Introducing Amazon Common Software
Introducing Amazon Common Software for Devices (Preview): Accelerate Your Adoption of Amazon Device SDKs.
Arlo Voice-Enables its Smart Cameras
By integrating with Alexa, Arlo could enable its customers to access any video feed by voice—even when their hands are full.
Wyze Labs: Smart Cameras
Works with Alexa helped Wyze Labs grow sales even faster by expanding both their online and offline footprint, while delivering a great experience to their customers.
How TP-Link Made a Frustration-Free Setup Experience
With Alexa’s Frustration-Free Setup, setting up TP-Link’s smart home plug is as simple as plugging it in.
| Date | Name | Summary | Availability | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/24/2020 | Alexa Hunches | Enable Alexa to proactively act on hunches without customers needing to ask | US | |
| 9/24/2020 | Energy Dashboard | Help your customers track, manage, and save energy usage for your compatible Alexa-connected devices | US | |
| 9/24/2020 | Inventory Usage Sensors | Expand convenient reordering through Alexa to more devices with new usage sensors | All | |
| 9/24/2020 | App Live View | Enable live viewing of your camera and doorbell camera streams in the Alexa app | All | |
| 9/24/2020 | Bluetooth Mesh | Connect your light bulb devices to Alexa using Bluetooth BLE Mesh | US | Sign Up Form |
| 9/24/2020 | Local Smart Home Skills | Enable faster and offline control of your devices with local skills | US | Sign Up Form |
| 9/24/2020 | Bluetooth Simple Setup | Enable Frustration-Free Setup for Bluetooth devices | All | |
| 9/24/2020 | Wi-Fi Simple Reconnect | Enable your devices to automatically reconnect to a customer’s network if they lose connection | All | |
| 7/22/2020 | Alexa Connect Kit Module with Espressif Chipset | Introducing added support for a new Alexa Connect Kit (ACK) Module with Espressif chipset, as much as 50% lower in cost. | US | Blog Preview Form |
| 6/30/2020 | Smart Home Tests Tool | Reduce the time and cost to certify your device by quickly testing that your smart home skill is correctly handling Alexa directives for the capabilities it supports. | All | Documentation |
| 5/28/2020 | Multi-Capability Skills | Expand Your Device Experience by Combining Smart Home and Custom Skill Models into a Single Skill | US | Alexa Blog Documentation |
| 3/25/2020 | Amazon Common Software (ACS) for Devices (Preview) | Accelerate Your Adoption of Amazon Device SDKs | All | Alexa Blog Documentation |
| 3/13/2020 | Expanded Self-Service Prototyping with Alexa Connect Kit | Use the Alexa Connect Kit self-service prototyping tools to create a virtual product, define its Alexa capabilities, and test your device's customer experience with Alexa. | US | Blog Documentation |
| 2/3/2020 | Change Report Accuracy Rate Metric | Use the new metric to monitor the accuracy of your ChangeReport events sent to Alexa in the Analytics page of the developer console, helping you test and confirm your device events are reporting correctly. | All | Documentation |
| 2/3/2020 | Smart Home Live Debugger Tool | Test that Alexa is accurately receiving your proactive events when a user adds a new endpoint or updates an existing endpoint, and when a user removes an endpoint from their account. | All | Documentation |
Feature updates are categorized into the following types of releases:
- Preview: This feature is not immediately available for all developers. Developers are required to sign up and agree to the terms of the release to use.
- Beta: This feature may lack important functionality and may have future breaking changes, but is operational and available to all developers.
- Generally Available: This feature is immediately available for all developers in all commercial regions (unless otherwise noted), and developers can use it to run production workloads.This feature is immediately available for all developers in all commercial regions (unless otherwise noted), and developers can use it to run production workloads.
Use this table to understand which skills a feature is available for.
| Features Available In... | Can Be Used for Skills That... |
|---|---|
| All | Use any supported language model and are published in any supported locale |
| All English language locales | Use the English (AU), English (CA), English (IN), English (UK), and/or English (US) language model and are published in the corresponding supported locale(s) |
| US | Use the English (US) language model and are published in the United States (US) |
| es-US | Use the Spanish (US) language model and are published in the United States (US) |
| AU | Use the English (AU) language model and are published in Australia (AU) and New Zealand (NZ) |
| BR | Use the Portuguese (BR) language model and are published in Brazil (BR) |
| CA | Use the English (CA) or French (CA) language model and are published in Canada (CA) |
| DE | Use the German (DE) language model and are published in Germany (DE) and Austria (AT) |
| ES | Use the Spanish (ES) language model and are published in Spain (ES) |
| FR | Use the French (FR) language model and are published in France (FR) |
| IN | Use the English (IN) language model and are published in India (IN) |
| hi-IN | Use the Hindi (IN) language model and are published in India (IN) |
| IT | Use the Italian (IT) language model and are published in Italy (IT) |
| JP | Use the Japanese (JP) language model and are published in Japan (JP) |
| MX | Use the Spanish (MX) language model and are published in Mexico (MX) |
| UK | Use the English (UK) language model and are published in the UK (UK) and Ireland (IE) |
