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# No longer maintained
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*Great news for Plex and Amazon Echo fans alike!!* I am going to be working directly with Plex to make an official Alexa Plex skill, which will be totally streets ahead.
[](https://gitter.im/OverloadUT/alexa-plex?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
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Stay tuned to Plex's [official channels](https://blog.plex.tv/) for more!
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The final state of this public project will remain here for people to learn from, but no further development should be expected.
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*(original readme follows)*
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# alexa-plex
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Alexa (Amazon Echo) app for interacting with a Plex Server and controlling client playback
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# Install for Development
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I accept Pull Requests! To get set up for development simply:
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1.```npm install``` to install all dependencies
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2.```npm test``` to verify that all tests are passing. If they are, you're ready to rock!
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## AWS Lambda
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The app is meant to be deployed as an **AWS Lambda** function. Setting that up is beyond the scope of this readme though. There's a deploy.bat file in this project that will deploy to AWS Lambda if you're on Windows, but you will need to have the AWS toolkit installed and configured, and have an "alexa-plex" function set up.
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## Dynamo DB
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This app requires DynamoDB. You'll need to get that set up and create a table named `AlexaPlexUsers`
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This app requires DynamoDB. You'll need to get that set up and create a table named `AlexaPlexUsers` with a primary string key of `userid`
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## Testing on a live Plex server
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You need to define a few environment variables to tell this app how to talk to your Plex server. The project is set up to use ```dotenv``` so you can simply create a ```.env``` file in the project root to define all of the needed variables. Here's a template:
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