Another cold and rainy day. I was going to plant the grow boxes but opted out because of the rain. The Amazon Alex device came today so I spent some time getting acquainted with it and giving it commands. I used IFTTT to control the Honeywell Thermostat but I was not impressed with the lack of control available. My best bet is going to be to use my own server to do this. i have an outline on a blog of how to talk to Alexa. I finally got the IOS app doing updates using the password file. Next step is import and export of User db files. Still more to do.
Dinner tonight was spaghetti with cheese sprinkled on. I continued to read about using Alexa to issue MQTT commands. This is what I need for general purpose Home Automation. I also spent some time converting the old Nashville powerpoint into jpg files so I could easily pick and choose which ones I will use at the Richmond meeting on Saturday.