Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-31 Thread rederikus
philchillbill wrote: > Looks correct. If the curl command failed without the auth token then it > was just a permissions error inside your local network. Glad it's > resolved. > > I think I saw you in the logs trying to request playback of a specific > version of Money by Pink Floyd by specifyi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-28 Thread rederikus
philchillbill wrote: > Oh dear, it's actually my bad. Because of the free access to premium > commands during Christmas week. There was one spot in the code that > needed a tweak for people who are not actually subscribed to be able to > stop a stream. It transpires that the skill -is -actually

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-27 Thread rederikus
Alexa, stop Alexa, Pause Alexa, terminate Alexa, stop stream Alexa, stop streaming Alexa, stop playing Alexa, stop play Alexa, stop playing on [Player] // this did not work and I did not expect it to. Alexa, open Media Server stop (all of the above) Nothing but pulling the plug stopped Echo stre

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-27 Thread rederikus
philchillbill wrote: > Sure. But the stop/pause should start working again for you - don’t give > up on it yet [emoji848] Oh yes, that is the 2nd problem. I shall wait for Stop/Pause to start again. I'll try again tomorrow. As for Pandora on the Echo via MS, I am not too worried since I have t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-27 Thread rederikus
philchillbill wrote: > I can see in the logs that the AMAZON.Pause intent is coming through for > you (both 'stop' and 'pause' produce that). She is not indicating an > error in processing it. It's not handled by the skill - I just get > notified of it in case I want to do anything too. It's nor

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-27 Thread rederikus
philchillbill wrote: > I’ve had that with the Echo Dot 3 a few times and once with a Show 2. > Service error with Alexa. Goes away after a few hours. Does the service error give a notification 'cuz I did not get one? Can you see any logs from y usage? If so maybe that will help. I still think

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-27 Thread rederikus
philchillbill wrote: > I’ll take a look at Pandora later. Does ‘Alexa, pause’ stop the stream? "Alexa, pause." does not work. I also tried "Alexa, stop playback." Unplugging is the only way to stop it. Works every time... *server : * lms 7.9 on rpi3 *players :* 2 x rpi 2b, hifiberry da

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-27 Thread rederikus
philchillbill wrote: > It's not a bug, it's a feature being used incorrectly :cool: If you look > at the very first post in this thread at the examples of the Stream > command, you'll see that you don't use a player name at all, as the Echo > you are talking to is always the target for Streaming

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-27 Thread rederikus
Paul Webster wrote: > When you are streaming to the Echo device you can use the regular Echo > commands to pause/stop ... so > Alexa Stop > should work Nah. "Alexa, stop." does nothing. I say it and it just goes back to playing. I also tried "Alexa, Pause." That failed too. I then opened Me

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-27 Thread rederikus
@philchillbill, I am having a little trouble Streaming. I have two Echo Show 5s. I give the command, "Alexa, open Media Server.", and then "Stream some Jazz on Kitchen.", and it plays. Now I cannot stop the Stream. Opening Media Server and saying, "Stop Stream on kitchen." results in Media Se

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-26 Thread rederikus
philchillbill wrote: > My pleasure. You’ll get used to pacing it slightly better with time and > then that annoyance will stop. The online docs give examples of many > other ways to start a command. That can help too. I was a beta tester with the developmental SqueezeBox Echo skill for about a y

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-26 Thread rederikus
This is a mighty skill indeed. Now I have it working as philchillbill intended, it is amazing. My only complaint is that when I say, "Alexa, Ask Media Server...", I regularly get an explanation of that a restaurant waiter does for a job. This is and Echo problem, not Media Server's. Thank you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-24 Thread rederikus
@philbillchill It is working. Thanks for your help. It plays fine from my music collection but seems to have trouble playing Pandora stations. I now need to learn the new command set. It is a great help that you freed up the server for a few days. This will help me learn the product. Thank

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-24 Thread rederikus
Thanks for your reply. I gave the command "Play some Jazz on House." I got the reply Your LMS Server did not respond." and "ngrok reports that the tunnel with which you configured the skill no longer exists." Gong to the tunnel url in Chrome now takes me to thye LMS Settings page displaying Bas

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-24 Thread rederikus
Thanks for that phil. This will help testing enormously. MY install is slowly coming to life. One problem was that I rebooted my Pi after I finished the installation so that renewed the tunnel url - duh. Now I am able to login to ngrok via the new link and access my LMS via that link and play

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-23 Thread rederikus
Okay. Better. I get a two line output from ps aux | grep ngrok The skill rejects my mediaserver entries. ngrok.com accepts my email:password as correct and I have triple checked that my server entry is correct. During setup I used email:pasword where the command showed auth:password. Is tha

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-23 Thread rederikus
That sounds right. I shall do that and try again. Duh. Sorry. *server : * lms 7.9 on rpi3 *players :* 2 x rpi 2b, hifiberry dac+ (whole-house, 2 x 300watts rms 8 ohm), + rpi 2b & hifiberry dac+ for subbass (500watts) . 3 x rpi picoreplayer. two with behringer uca222 usb da

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-23 Thread rederikus
-bash: ngrok: command not found *server : * lms 7.9 on rpi3 *players :* 2 x rpi 2b, hifiberry dac+ (whole-house, 2 x 300watts rms 8 ohm), + rpi 2b & hifiberry dac+ for subbass (500watts) . 3 x rpi picoreplayer. two with behringer uca222 usb dac . 1 x logitech bo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-23 Thread rederikus
@Lupodi, Merci. J'ai faisait simplement copier/coller. My bad. @phil, One output line only. *server : * lms 7.9 on rpi3 *players :* 2 x rpi 2b, hifiberry dac+ (whole-house, 2 x 300watts rms 8 ohm), + rpi 2b & hifiberry dac+ for subbass (500watts) . 3 x rpi picoreplayer. tw

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-23 Thread rederikus
Hey phil, Thanks for your help. I am running on a Raspberry Pi3 which has my LMS on it and pihole. "pas aux | grep ngrok" responds with "-bash: pas: command not found" A clue I think. Something is clearly not working. How do I reset back to zero and start over please? Also what did I d

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-23 Thread rederikus
Paul Webster wrote: > The end of the first post has a link to all that you need. @Paul, So far, so good except the command > curl -s http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels | grep -Po https://.+?\.io gives me no output so I do not see my server address. *server : * lms 7.9 on rpi3 *players

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-23 Thread rederikus
Paul Webster wrote: > The end of the first post has a link to all that you need. Thank you Paul. I wondered if that was still valid. *server : * lms 7.9 on rpi3 *players :* 2 x rpi 2b, hifiberry dac+ (whole-house, 2 x 300watts rms 8 ohm), + rpi 2b & hifiberry dac+ for subbass (500watts)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-22 Thread rederikus
I have been running LMS for some years. Recently I looked into replacing it with an Echo/Amazon setup. I now have this working too but it is nowhere near as robust as LMS + Squeeze Ctrl and the Web interface. I am very interested in Media Server. I would very much like a concise installation

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Alexa voice control (development thread)

2016-12-24 Thread rederikus
This is really interesting. It is a shame it does not work yet. :confused: I read hab-tunes.com. A quote from Thomas Edison seems appropriate here: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." To the end of that sentence I would add the word "yet." I am told that Santa m