In this video, I will show you how to install Auto Server Updates for Echo Speaks. All of your smart apps must be up to date to continue to work and perform properly. Echo speaks is no exception.

This is the easiest way to automate your Echo Speaks to update the Server so you will not have to worry about this ever again. Using the community installer will not update the server for some reason so why not just automate the process so you don’t need to worry about it?

Follow the below steps to enable automatic Server updates for Echo Speaks:

  1. 1. Visit https://github.com/tonesto7/echo-speaks-server
  2. Sign in to your Github account or create an account if you don’t have one.
  3. Click on “Fork” in towards the top right of the page to fork the echo-speaks-server into your account.
  4. Visit https://github.com/apps/pull and install the Pull App on your GitHub. This will keep all forks up-to-date once installed.
  5. Visit https://heroku.com.
  6. Click on your active echo-speaks-xxxxxxxxxx instance.
  7. Click on Deploy option at the top of the screen.
  8. In the “Deployment method” section click GitHub.
  9. In the “Connect to GitHub” section click Connect to GitHub button.
  10. A small window will pop-up. Just click the green “Authorize heroku” button.
  11. In the “Connect to GitHub” section you should now see your GitHub user name and a blank box to search a repo name. Search “echo-speaks-server” and select “Search”.
  12. You should see your fork of the echo-speaks-server listed in the results, so click the “Connect” button on the right.
  13. Under the “Automatic deploys” section make sure the “master” branch is selected and “Wait for CI to pass before deploy” is checked.
  14. Click on “Enable Automatic Deploys”. You have now activated automatic updates for the echo speaks server.
  15. To upgrade the first time go to the “Manual deploy” section, make sure the “master” branch is selected and press the “Deploy Branch” button.
  16. The branch will be deployed and at the bottom of your screen it will say “Your app was successfully deployed.”
  17. All future updates will now be automatic and it only took 5 minutes!