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Alice Assistant skill

Voice control for Elica cooker hoods

Customer

Elica is an Italian manufacturer of stove hoods, boilers and ovens

Solution

Smart home skill with Alice Voice Assistant. Only available for Elica customers

Create a voice control for Elica kitchen hoods and connect them to the smart home system

Task

General information

01/

How it works

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Binds the device to Yandex

Connects the cooker hood to the app

Controls the cooker hood through Alice Assistant

The customer downloads the Elica Connect app

Switching the hood On/Off

Control of ventilation modes

Lighting control: changing the color shades and light intensity

Pending commands. E.g. "Decrease brightness by 70% in 4 hours".

Status check: what's wrong with the hood, what's the operating mode, whether the light is on

Commands for the cooker hood

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Антон Шипов

Разработчик проекта

Quote

«Voice control was supposed to become a feature of Elica cooker hoods. Our customer wanted to put the Yandex logo on the appliances, so that customers would immediately understand that the hoods are easy and convenient to operate»

Tested and debugged the skill

1.5 months

Implementation full time

development – 2 weeks

Stages of development

04/

Step 01

Studied the technical documentation

Step 02

Got access to the customer's API

Step 03

Set up data transfer to the Yandex API

Solution

Before embarking on the project, we conducted a research: we studied the documentation and the specifics of creating and developing such a service

Solution

Moderation took a week: we had to provide the cooker hood, do a general test with the moderator and the customer, and show the skill working in real time

Reason

A lengthy but important procedure. It is necessary so that the buyers of hoods can connect the device to Alice