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Before you build a smart home add-on, review the following smart home concepts:- Discovery – How Alexa discovers the customer’s smart home devices.
- Device Templates – Recommended sets of interfaces to implement for different types of devices.
- State and Change Reporting – How to include support for state and change reporting to keep Alexa informed about the current state of the device.
- Develop Add-ons for Multiple Languages – Create smart home add-ons for Alexa that respond to customer utterances in different languages.
- Generic Controller Interfaces – General-purpose interfaces that you can use to model different components of a smart home device.
- Real-Time Communications – Enable real-time streaming of audio and video between Alexa and your smart home device.
- Best Practices for the Alexa App – Best practices to support the Alexa app with your smart home add-on.
