Sky Bro is a weather observations Skill for Alexa. It is targeted for skydivers that want to know what the sky conditions are at their favorite dropzone before traveling for a gnarly day of sky shredding!
When the skill is enabled on your Alexa account, ask weather questions such as:
- Alexa, ask Sky Bro for weather at Sanderson Field
- Alexa, ask Sky Bro for sky conditions at Skydive Chelan on Saturday
- Alexa, open Sky Bro
- Sky conditions for Skydive Kapowsin tomorrow
- What is the weather at Bowerman Field for tomorrow?
SkyBro will give an overview of the weather conditions including:
- Wind
- Cloud Coverage
- Flight Rules
- Temperature
- Dew Point
- Adverse Conditions (snow, lightning)
SkyBro is currently in the Beta stage of development. It is a working Alexa Skill but still needs to be thoroughly tested before deployment! If you want to be on the Beta list to use the Skill, feel free to contact me. Contact information can be found on my GitHub profile.
SkyBro relies on the following technologies:
- C#
- Dotnet 8.0 (or use a package manager)
- AWS Lambda
- Alexa Skill Kit
- DynamoDB
My programming environment uses the following:
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If not already installed, install the Dotnet 8.0 CLI.
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Clone the repository and
cdinto it. -
Install
Amazon.Lambda.ToolsGlobal Tools if not already installed.
dotnet tool install -g Amazon.Lambda.ToolsIf already installed check if new version is available.
dotnet tool update -g Amazon.Lambda.Tools- Run the following commands to build the project.
dotnet buildThis repository consists of two .csproj files, one for the testing project and the other for
the Lambda. This is wrapped in a .sln file which exists in the root directory of the project.
This simply helps rebuild, test, and debug the project faster.
- Execute unit tests
dotnet testThe deployment process is automated through GitHub Actions. Upon a successful merge to the main branch,
a process will build the new Lambda function and deploy it to AWS!