How to show charts using Amazon Echo show skill

Question

I′ve gotten an echo show on Christmas. Now I want to try out how I can customize it a bit. I have created several sensors whose metrics are stored in an AWS DynamoDB. Now I am wondering what possibilities I have to show charts created out of that data. Is it possible to display charts using Alexa Presentation Language (APL) directly? Is it possible to include iframes in APL? I did not find much information on that topic. Maybe you can point me to the right direction.

Many thanks in advance

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65517934/how-to-show-charts-using-amazon-echo-show-skill

Answer 1

Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but you can generate SVG graphics and render those using APL VectorGraphic primitives.

You will have to build a custom skill that, when invoked, can pull the data for your metrics, and generate the APL to render the graphs.

Alternatively, if you have a different server-side rendering API for the metrics that can rasterize, you can produce a PNG and render that on the Echo Show.