Alexa.Gadget.StateListener Interface

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This interface provides your gadget the status of the following Echo device-level features:

• Setting and clearing of alerts (alarms, timers, and reminders).
• Detection of the wake word. Note that pressing the "talk" or microphone button on an Echo device is not intended to trigger wake word detection.
• (Beta) Time information from the Echo device. This is sent every 30 minutes.

• Supporting this interface
• Directives
  • StateUpdate directive
    • StateUpdateDirectiveProto
    • Directive
    • DirectiveHeaderProto
    • StateUpdatePayloadProto
    • States

Supporting this interface

To support this interface, the gadget must respond to the Echo device's Discover directive with a Discover.Response event that includes the following entry in its array of Capabilities:

{
   "type": "AlexaInterface",
   "interface": "Alexa.Gadget.StateListener",
   "version": "1.0",
   "configurations": {
      "supportedTypes":[
       {
          "name":"alarms"
       },
       {
          "name":"timers"
       },          
       {
          "name":"reminders"
       },         
       {
          "name":"wakeword"
       },     
       {
          "name":"timeinfo"
       }                
      ]
   }
 }

Directives

This interface includes one directive: StateUpdate, as described next.

StateUpdate directive

This directive provides the gadget with status information about the Echo device that it is communicating with. The .proto file contents are as follows:

message StateUpdateDirectiveProto {
   Directive directive = 1;
   message Directive {
      alexaGadgetStateListener.StateUpdateDirectivePayloadProto payload = 2;
      header.DirectiveHeaderProto header = 1;
   }
}

message DirectiveHeaderProto {
   string namespace = 1; 
   string name = 2; 
   string messageId = 3; 
   string dialogRequestId = 4;      
}

message StateUpdateDirectivePayloadProto {
   repeated States states = 1;
   message States {
      string name = 1;
      string value = 2;
   }
}

StateUpdateDirectiveProto

The fields in this message are as follows:

Field	Description	Type
directive	Contains a complete StateUpdate directive.	Directive

Directive

The fields of the message are as follows:

Field	Description	Type
header	Contains the header for this directive.	DirectiveHeaderProto
payload	Contains the payload for this directive.	StateUpdateDirectivePayloadProto

DirectiveHeaderProto

The fields of the message are as follows:

Field	Description	Type
namespace	The namespace of this directive, which is Alexa.Gadget.StateListener.	string
name	The name of this directive, which is StateUpdate.	string
messageId	An ID that uniquely defines an instance of this directive. This string can be empty.	string
dialogRequestId	A unique ID that correlates this directive with a specific voice interaction from a user. You can ignore this field.	string

StateUpdatePayloadProto

The fields of the message are as follows:

Field	Description	Type
states	Name/value pairs that specify the state type and value. The name is the type of state, such as alarms. The value is the value of the state, such as cleared.	States

States

The fields of the message are as follows:

Field	Description	Type
name	The type of state. Valid values are alarms, timers, reminders, wakeword, and timeinfo (Beta).	string
value	The value of the state, which depends on the type of state: For states with name equal to alarms, timers, reminders, or wakeword, the valid values are active and cleared. For the timeinfo state, the value is a string that contains the Echo device's time in ISO 8601 format.	string

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Last updated: Mar 31, 2022