Askhome wraps the Smart Home Skill API from Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) for Amazon Echo and removes all that ugly boilerplate.

Basic skill in askhome looks like this:

from askhome import Smarthome, Appliance

class Star(Appliance):
    @Appliance.action
    def turn_on(self, request):
        ... # Let there be light
        
home = Smarthome()
home.add_appliance('star1', Star, name='Sun')

handler = home.lambda_handler

• Define what your smart devices can do with simple class interface
• Askhome then handles device discovery and routes Alexa requests to your methods
• Requests come in a nice preprocessed object and provide easy to use response methods
• If something goes wrong, just raise the appropriate exception
• You don't have to touch the raw JSON requests at all!

Check out the docs at http://askhome.rtfd.io!