[QUESTION] Alexa - Minimum System Requirements ?

[xerib59]

Yo,

Thank you for your amazing work here.
It works like a charm even if, because of Heroku, the download of the video and the encoding as a sound for Alexa is a bit slow.
Did you try to use it on a dedicated server or on your personal computer ?
Which performances did you get ?

I'm planning to deploy it on one of my servers but the CPU is pretty basic, I don't know which system requirement I have to follow in order to have good performances (would be perfect if it took an average of 15sec to download the video and encode the sound)

Keep up the good work !

• Xerib

[dmhacker]

Thanks! I've deployed it on a sandbox Heroku server at http://dmhacker-youtube.herokuapp.com/. By default, that is the server that the Alexa skill uses. However, because a lot of people use the default server instead of deploying their own Heroku server, the download times are pretty slow.

To answer your question though, I think it's not necessarily a problem with encoding/decoding, since I removed the extra ffmpeg encoding that the server was doing a long time ago. If you want to maximize download speeds, I'd aim for a server that makes high bandwidth/throughput guarantees (I haven't looked at Heroku pricing, but there's probably an option that increases bandwidth).