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by wyowolf
Fri Mar 17, 2017 7:37 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tablet Suggestions
Replies: 9
Views: 7384

Re: Tablet Suggestions

I use a giant Samsung Tablet... cant remember what its called... but it has its own stand, so i dont hold it, about the size of a PC monitor...it was free when we switched to worthless ATT...
by wyowolf
Thu Mar 16, 2017 3:11 pm
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 214779

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

I finally got it!! I tried to send msgs to both of you... but they are stuck in outbox?? i did have to open port 80, I will close it now that i know it will work... how do you fwd to a higher port number like you suggested? my issue was i entered the IP in the wrong place... once i saw how oakbarn d...
by wyowolf
Thu Mar 16, 2017 9:17 am
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 214779

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

I simply put in the port that was listed on the BCS under network settings? is there something else I need to do? Yes, you need to setup the port forwarding. and also not sure what to put in the line for "BCS credentials"? Are you using authentication for your BCS? If so, that goes into t...
by wyowolf
Thu Mar 16, 2017 3:13 am
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 214779

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

Look where your error is: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED xxx.yyy.zzz.224:46001 Connection refused. Did you do the port forwarding on your firewall? Amazon is trying to reach out to your BCS at the IP/PORT specified and was denied connection. I simply put in the port that was listed on the BCS under ne...
by wyowolf
Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:57 pm
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 214779

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

from the log START RequestId: 456490f0-09d2-11e7-b0cb-4f508196fe50 Version: $LATEST 2017-03-15T22:53:57.130Z 456490f0-09d2-11e7-b0cb-4f508196fe50 ********** Event Request ********** 2017-03-15T22:53:57.131Z 456490f0-09d2-11e7-b0cb-4f508196fe50 {"header":{"namespace":"Alexa.C...
by wyowolf
Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:54 pm
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 214779

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

ok I ran it and got this

{
"errorMessage": "RequestId: 456490f0-09d2-11e7-b0cb-4f508196fe50 Process exited before completing request"
}
by wyowolf
Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:52 pm
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 214779

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

ok thank you very much!!

I entered my IP and Port settings, but Im not sure what i put for BCS credentials?

var host = 'www.demo.com'; // 192.168.1.130
var port = '46001'; // 80
var user = 'admin:control'; // Change to your BCS credentials.
by wyowolf
Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:10 pm
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 214779

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

this is where I added my local IP to the BCS.

var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var http = require('http');

var host = 'bcs.demohost.org'; \\ 192.168.1.130
var port = '46001';
var user = 'admin:control';
by wyowolf
Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:09 pm
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 214779

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

Ok will try to be as detailed as I can. On the code, I simply cut and pasted whatever you wrote in the beginning. The only change I made was to add my BCS IP address where indicated.. I made NO other changes. ok I cut and pasted your test event and got a different error. { "errorMessage": ...
by wyowolf
Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:05 am
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 214779

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

Not sure what I did wrong, but I got this error msg when i hit the "test" button...