Building Alexa Skill that pushes an alarm

Question

I'm trying to build an alexa skill that fires a custom alarm every set number of times per day (30 min intervals for example). I'm reading through their docs and not fulling understanding where to go to next.

Does anyone have some good Alexa skill apps that I can reference or an article? I couldn't find much online and it looks like it hasn't been an accessible feature for too long.

Answer 1

You cannot trigger Alexa to speak without user interaction. That means, the user has to say something to trigger your skill, which will in turn create a request to you skill's backend, and you can only respond (be it audio or speech) back to that request.

However, you can send Push Notifications.

Notification indicators inform end users that new content is available from Alexa skills and domains. When a notification is delivered, depending on what the product is capable of, the user is notified by visual and audio indicators.

More on Push Notification here