I'm happy with using the light sensor to trigger another light on when Alexa is talking like you did. That was creative and I never would have thought of it. However, I want the secondary light to stay on it if I ask her to play music. To do that, I have to have the secondary light stay on for 30+ seconds just in case I asked her to play music before turning off. I'm greedy. I want to be able to turn light off secondary light within 5 seconds of her talking if all I did was ask for weather forecast. I know others use dashboards tiles that show what track is playing but for me, those don't update very quickly either when track changes. I'm just curious if other people are getting faster response times.
If there were faster response times, I can think of some other things I could do outside of the radio project.
@tonesto7 Does Echo Speaks have to poll devices to get status or are updates sent when the Echo decides to send them?
This was April's cool project that inspired the question:
