Developing Alex Skill using WebOS

Uwe Lammers · 2019-04-04T20:24:06+0000

Hi all, I have the following problem: I own a 2018 E8 LG OLED TV which was bought in Germany and now runs WebOS 4.10.31. When the E8 came out LG had announced to support Amazon's Alexa via the LG Smart ThinQ Skill but this has not materialized - only the 2019er models are supported (which I think run webOS 4.5). What can be done? I thought perhaps to try to write a Skill myself (I have some experience with this) using webOS. Question, is this possible at all? Can I control the basic TV functions (switch on, off, volume up, down, etc) through webOS? If yes, where is the API documented? Any other advice? Thanks Uwe

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April 4, 2019 in LG AI ThinQ TV Discussion

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