alexa-radio VS remark

The excellent self-build skills https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio and https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video use Autocode. Unfortunately, Autocode's free service of 1000 requests doesn't last very long, a matter of days. To upgrade it's $20/month, which isn't worth it for me. Anybody clever enough to know of a free Autocode alternative and re-write the code?

I mostly use three skills to play radio and watch TV. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RKCN3CN, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video. I tried calling stations with other better known apps, station starts playing but it still wouldn't stop.

Looks like one can't use https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio as it's a local http address. You can use a gist to convert a WAN address from http to https but not a LAN address. If anybody knows a way, please post?

Or build your own, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, and add the stream url's you can find on https://www.radio-browser.info/search?page=1&order=clickcount&reverse=true&hidebroken=true&name=maine. As always, easier to use routines.

As an alternative to Tunein, just in case. Build your own skill, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, and add this stream, https://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_world_service.

I don't know how to hand-off to another echo. What I do is start playing something on a speaker group then shout out the news station I want to listen to. Unfortunately, the speaker group can only do audio, not video. So although I can play video (BBC, CNN, Sky, etc.) using the video skill, https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video, on a single Echo Show, I have to ask the radio skill, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, to play the TV channel to get audio playing on all the devices (echos and dots) in the rooms I will be in.

You have to install https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio as your own radio skill. Get your mug of tea and read it slowly, will take you 20mins max. Very good instructions. Then add the stream and label it "W FAN" or whatever you desire. So you shout, "Alexa, ask radio to play W FAN". I've just done it and it works fine. It is geo-blocked but I use a smartdns on my router. As suggested, use a routine to call it, "Alexa, play W FAN".

You can build your own skill, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, and create a 'station' with the https url of the mp3.

At the bottom of https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio note the message about having to use gists with http links. I just used a gist for the CJSR http link, https://www.radio-browser.info/#/history/961a1782-0601-11e8-ae97-52543be04c81, and it worked fine.

Eh there are loads of these based on Markdown that are much better. I think revealjs is the most popular, but I like remarkjs:

https://github.com/gnab/remark

There's a list of them here:

Thanks for your comment, u/legitEngin. Indeed, I do see a slew of Markdown-to-presentation plugins (this work was inspired by one at https://github.com/gnab/remark), and I hope I can inspire more instructors to consider using plain text to organize their work instead of lugging around heavy PPTs.

remarkjs github; easy guide; simple demo with default settings

One of my proudest open source contributions is also to excalidraw. It's a small tweak. Since about a year ago, chrome will re-save the .png to disk when you ctrl+s or cmd+s (with the embedded scene, and without prompting for a location). It gives you a really nice workflow for documentation and remark-style slides for presentations.

just some text, but easy to tweak/adopt/write? -> https://remarkjs.com

It's a good idea, which is why it's already been done. That's not to say you shouldn't finish it! You might improve on the idea, or it might just be a good learning experience.

I've given presentations in ReMark before, which is basically "markdown -> web slideshow" using a JS blob. Worked alright for simple presentations without complicated formatting needs, and loads all the images on the fly, so it implicitly picks up any re-generated figures. It also made it very easily to collaborate on presentations via GitHub, since the whole "presentation" was a short text file.