Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. There are over 50 million people worldwide living with dementia in 2020. This number will almost double every 20 years, reaching 82 million in 2030 and 152 million in 2050. Source: Alzheimer’s Disease International Music therapy: A non-pharmacological intervention for dementia …

Recently Amazon introduced changes in the way Alexa routines interact with Alexa custom skills. It makes possible to create routines that are more productive and fun to use. For example, the My Slides skill’s integration with Alexa routines was very basic: a routine’s trigger could only launch the skill. You…

Recently Amazon introduced changes in the way Alexa routines interact with Alexa custom skills. It makes possible to create routines that are more productive and fun to use. For example, the My Video skill’s integration with Alexa routines was very basic: a routine’s trigger could only launch the skill. You…

Recently Amazon introduced changes in the way Alexa routines interact with Alexa custom skills. It makes possible to create routines that are more productive and fun to use. For example, the Sound Stream skill’s integration with Alexa routines was very basic: a routine’s trigger could only launch the skill. You…

Better sleep with noise? Seriously? Yes, absolutely. Did you know that every year many millions of so-called Noise Machines are sold? Why? Because we all need a good quality sleep. Without enough sleep, the brain cannot function properly. Most of us live in areas with high population density. Noisy neighbours…

Hove you ever found yourself in a situation when you struggle to find photos from your holiday trip you made a couple of years ago? Or maybe you have a digitized family archive stored on countless hard drives. What if you wanted to view a wedding day of your son…

For years I was looking for an EASY WAY to play my personal videos: many trips recorded by dash cam, countless videos from my family members’ mobile phones and even a number of movies from our personal collection. My first choice was Plex. Many people love it. Many people hate…

Assuming that you’ve already enabled the Sound Stream skill and have at least one playlist with your audio files. You can find a great tutorial here. Create a routine for the Sound Stream Alexa skill: Let say we want to create a “Sleep routine”. It should play a relaxation music…

Initially I developed the Sound Drive Alexa skill that could transform your Google Drive to a media locker. But after a while Google introduced breaking changes in Google Drive API that made impossible to play media files from Amazon Echo devices. That is why I developed a new Alexa skill…