Alexa skill that play police, and fire scanners on Alexa. Finally!!

[andrewholliday]

There are finally Alexa skills that allow playing police, EMS, and fire scanners on Alexa. There is one per state.

I found them a little cumbersome, because it's a bit difficult to select from a list using voice, but it does work well. Each skill is based on a specific state.

Here's a link to an intro video on how the Texas Police Scanner skill works. All of them appear to work the same way. You select a zip code, and type of scanner (Police, Fire, or EMS) and the skill gives you a list of options to choose from. You then choose the scanner number you want, and it them plays the scanner on Alexa.

There appears to be an Alexa skill per state, looking at the Alexa skill store:

California Police Scanner
Florida Police Scanner
Arizona 911
Florida Police Scanner
Ohio Police Scanner
Illinois Police Scanner
Michigan Police Scanner
North Carolina Police Scanner
Pennsylvania Police Scanner

 

[fuzzmanks]

I see there are now 28 States listed including Kansas and Colorado. However they don't seem to be working for me. I assume the Alexa color ring should be flashing when it is monitoring a scanner feed.