Meeting Room

This app helps you find a free meeting room around the office. It's an example of an integration between Walabot and Alexa.

How it works

1. Connect a Walabot to a RPi and install both on the door header

2. Run the server

• Go to the repo folder
• In the server folder, edit the DB_PATH variable in the config.py file to be the server folder path
• In the server folder, edit the HOST variable in the config.py to be the server ip address
• Run python main.py
• Run ngrok http 5000 (you'll need to download ngrok first)
• Copy the URL output from the previous step and use it in the configuration tab at https://developer.amazon.com.

3. Run client

• Make sure that on the meeting_room_client.py you have the server's IP confiugred
• Run meeting_room_client.pyon RPi

Once that's done, it means that the number of people in the room is constantly streamed to the server

4. Create the Alexa APP

We have an Alexa app that we developed.

TODO - need to find a way to make it public and the server IP dynamic.

Questions you can ask Alexa

• Alexa, meeting room
• Alexa, search meeting room for 3 people
• Alexa, ask meeting room how many people are in the yellow room
• Alexa, ask meeting room if the yellow room is free/available

Testing without Walabot

• Go to repo folder
• Run python
• Run import json, socket
• Run s = socket.socket()
• Run s.connect(("127.0.0.1", 9999))
• Run s.send(json.dumps({"name": "yellow", "number_of_people": 0, "max_people": 10}).encode('UTF-8'))
• For adding other rooms with different configuration please repeat the previous step using different parameters