Da Bus Alexa skill example

Example Alexa skill that uses Honolulu's The Bus API to tell you when the next bus is.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Alexa Developer Console (where the Skill lives): https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/ask.

AWS Console (where the lambda function backend lives: https://console.aws.amazon.com/lambda. . Depending on how you set up your alexa skill (Custom vs Blueprint), you may also need npm and to install the ask-sdk npm module. (https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-node-js/).

Installing

Instructions to follow. Or just follow the usual Alexa tutorials.

You will need an API key for the bus API. It can be found here:

http://hea.thebus.org/api_info.asp

Deployment

More later.

License

Go for it.