About this action
Triggers, queries, and actions are the building blocks of Applets. Triggers tell an Applet to start, queries ask a question, and actions are its end result.
Developer info
- Description
- This action will send a video to your screen enabled Alexa/Echo device. Ensure you open the Voice Monkey Skill as the final action in your routine. Your videos must be in MP4 format, hosted on a publicly accessible host with an https URL.
- API endpoint slug
- voicemonkey.video
- Filter code method
- Voicemonkey.video.skip(string?: reason)
- Runtime method
- runAction("voicemonkey.video", {})
Action fields
Monkey Dropdown list
- Label
- Monkey to trigger
- Helper text
- Create and manage your Monkeys at app.voicemonkey.io/monkeys
- Slug
- monkey
- Required
- true
- Can have default value
- false
Announcement Text input > Other
- Label
- Announcement text
- Helper text
- This is the text which will be converted to Alexa speech.
- Slug
- announcement
- Required
- false
- Can have default value
- true
- Filter code method
- Voicemonkey.video.setAnnouncement(string: announcement)
Video Text input > File
- Label
- Video URL
- Helper text
- Videos should be on a publicly accessible https URL.
- Slug
- video
- Required
- true
- Can have default value
- true
- Filter code method
- Voicemonkey.video.setVideo(string: video)