Alexa. Networking. HomeNetworkController Interface
The Alexa.Networking.HomeNetworkController capability interface is an abstract representation of a home network, and represents an IP network router. For an overview of the Alexa networking API, see Understand Networking and Wi-Fi Skills.
Before you test a skill that uses the HomeNetworkController interface, make sure you use the Alexa app to add a device to the network you're testing with. For more information, see Overview of Wi-Fi Skills.
For the list of locales that are supported for the HomeNetworkController interface, see List of Capability Interfaces and Supported Locales.
Discovery
You describe endpoints that support Alexa.Networking.HomeNetworkController using the standard discovery mechanism described in Alexa.Discovery.
For the full list of display categories, see display categories.
Discover response example
The following example shows a Discover.Response message for a network router endpoint that supports the HomeNetworkController interface.
{
"event": {
"header": {
"namespace": "Alexa.Discovery",
"name": "Discover.Response",
"payloadVersion": "3",
"messageId": "<message id>"
},
"payload": {
"endpoints": [
{
"endpointId": "<unique ID of the endpoint>",
"manufacturerName": "<the manufacturer name of the endpoint>",
"description": "<a description that is shown in the Alexa app>",
"friendlyName": "<the friendly name of the endpoint>",
"displayCategories": ["NETWORK_HARDWARE"],
"cookie": {},
"capabilities": [
{
"type": "AlexaInterface",
"interface": "Alexa.Networking.HomeNetworkController",
"version": "3"
},
{
"type": "AlexaInterface",
"interface": "Alexa",
"version": "3"
}
]
}
]
}
}
}
