Using Alexa (Amazon Echo) to Preheat my Renault ZOE and check Battery Status

1 · Danny Tuppeny · Dec. 2, 2016, midnight
Yesterday my 2nd Gen Amazon Echo Dot arrived (check out my kids review of the Echo Dot here) and I thought it’d be fun to try and hook it up to my Renault ZOE so that I could check battery status and preheat it without having to load the clunky app. Alexa Skills can be hosted on AWS Lambda and there’s an easy-to-follow tutorial in the dev docs. The Renault ZOE doesn’t have an official API but last year I’d used Fiddler to sniff the mobile app and been able to emulate that. Since then their app ...