I used my step-brother's (Mr. Austin) Ford Ranger to make this short demo video... https://youtu.be/UWn1-MVNLjo
I know it's technically the same thing, but for some reason I think it is super cool to see Alexa actually work on a vehicle instead of just console output. I deployed a second copy of the "My Ford" skill named "Austin Powers" skill which sends the Alexa data intents to a different copy of the my-ford-service which has his actual vehicle registered with the account.
I really wish Alexa didn't have a "10 second rule" for interactions! This code is running right on the edge of that timing, so it sometimes times out and you have to run the skill again. I registered for the one day Amazon conference https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-live which happens to be this Wednesday, so hopefully I can learn how to make this Alexa skill production quality and handle when the FordConnect API is a couple seconds slower than its typical response time.
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