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

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

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

2019-12-27 Thread philchillbill
rederikus wrote: > @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

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

2019-12-27 Thread Paul Webster
When you are streaming to the Echo device you can use the regular Echo commands to pause/stop ... so Alexa Stop should work Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin Paul Webster's

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

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

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

2019-12-26 Thread philchillbill
rederikus wrote: > 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

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

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

2019-12-26 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > And that's Mbits and not Mbytes? Brings me back to 1997... :cool: Any > idea how consistent it is / how often it drops? > > As they say, three wrongs don't make a right. Having slow internet *and* > a slow LMS machine *and* a slow-ish ngrok host machine is pushing it.

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

2019-12-26 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > Right now the upload was 2.3 And that's Mbits and not Mbytes? Brings me back to 1997... :cool: Any idea how consistent it is / how often it drops? As they say, three wrongs don't make a right. Having slow internet *and* a slow LMS machine *and* a slow-ish ngrok host machine

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

2019-12-26 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > More relevant here is your upload speed rather than your download speed. > Is that the 6.1M figure? Right now the upload was 2.3 LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon PMA-50 Players/Speakers: Touch, Logitech Radios, Sonos Play 1s & Beam, Libratone Zipp, GGMM E2 & E3,

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

2019-12-26 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > !!! > > Because it's so flaky, I often check to see if it's working at all using > the discover command. > > So, I'm reluctant to buy another pi unless I can be sure the issue isn't > my internet ... at the moment the ookla speed test gives 6.1 Mbps More relevant here is

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

2019-12-26 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > That's quite surprising as 'interrupt' is not defined in the voice > model. > > As mentioned before, your setup is marginal for using this skill. The > logs are full of timeouts and other failures. You also hold the record > for most often using the 'discover players'

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

2019-12-26 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > There must be something wrong with my setup ... puse has no effect but > interrupt works That's quite surprising as 'interrupt' is not defined in the voice model. As mentioned before, your setup is marginal for using this skill. The logs are full of timeouts and other

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

2019-12-26 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > "resume" on its own will resume a stream to an Echo, not playback on a > Squeezebox. That's an Amazon built-in side effect of adding AudioPlayer > as an interface. > > From the magnificent online documentation: :cool: > > commence playback > commence playback for the

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

2019-12-26 Thread philchillbill
"resume" on its own will resume a stream to an Echo, not playback on a Squeezebox. That's an Amazon built-in side effect of adding AudioPlayer as an interface. >From the magnificent online documentation: :cool: commence playback commence playback for the {Player} commence playback for the

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

2019-12-26 Thread Paul Webster
Try “resume” Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread:

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

2019-12-26 Thread castalla
If I pause a player, how do I unpause? LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon PMA-50 Players/Speakers: Touch, Logitech Radios, Sonos Play 1s & Beam, Libratone Zipp, GGMM E2 & E3, Yamaha WXAD-010, Loewe Airspeaker, Google Chromecast Audio, Home Mini & Nest Hub, Amazon Echo 2,3 and Show5, Pioneer

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.

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

2019-12-24 Thread philchillbill
david_f1976 wrote: > That would normally work but the specific favourite is a podcast so > dont know the titles of the episodes - and these arent > called out. I can play the podcast by name - which adds all of the > episodes to the list - but was hoping I could just play the first > episode.

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

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

2019-12-24 Thread philchillbill
rederikus wrote: > 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

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

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

2019-12-24 Thread philchillbill
28841 IN THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS, THE SKILL WILL PROVIDE ACCESS TO ALL COMMANDS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR A SUBSCRIPTION, UNTIL JAN 1ST. ENJOY! p.s. to existing subscribers, apologies for the fact that the amazon isp process doesn't provide a means to credit or extend your subscription

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

2019-12-23 Thread philchillbill
rederikus wrote: > 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

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

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

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

2019-12-23 Thread philchillbill
rederikus wrote: > -bash: ngrok: command not found Presume you downloaded ngrok but didn’t move it to where the system expects to find it via sudo mv ngrok /usr/local/bin. That’s in the instructions. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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

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

2019-12-23 Thread philchillbill
rederikus wrote: > @Lupodi, Merci. J'ai faisait simplement copier/coller. My bad. > > @phil, One output line only. Ah sorry, typo. Should be ps indeed and not pas. Well something is causing ngrok to die immediately if you only see one output (that’s the command itself causing that). If you

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.

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

2019-12-23 Thread Ludopi
It is 'ps' not 'pas' Envoyé de mon Redmi 3S en utilisant Tapatalk Ludopi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68959 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016

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

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

2019-12-23 Thread philchillbill
rederikus wrote: > @Paul, So far, so good except the command gives me no output so I do > not see my server address. Sounds like something has killed ngrok by the time you get to checking the assigned tunnel. If you type -pas aux | grep ngrok-, do you see just one or two entries in the

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 philchillbill
rederikus wrote: > Thank you Paul. I wondered if that was still valid. For sure. It’s constantly updated based on the skill’s logs and the insights that provides into people’s difficulties. Did you manage ok?

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

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

2019-12-22 Thread bakker_be
philchillbill wrote: > [emoji23] Alexa is not available in NL and Amazon will not even ship > Echos to NL so we have to buy them abroad. Maybe that’s the reason ! I > have 11 Echos to test as much as I can and whenever I talk to the Amazon > support guys they always comment that my Echos are

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

2019-12-22 Thread Paul Webster
The end of the first post has a link to all that you need. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View

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] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-12-22 Thread philchillbill
DrMacabre wrote: > It’s also valid the other way around, i had one of my player named « > chambre » and tried to have the english alexa do anything with it... > even when listening her saying « chambrweu » i couldn’t figure how to > spell it correctly myself and finally change it to bedroom... i

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

2019-12-21 Thread DrMacabre
Ludopi wrote: > I can help as well for French translation/utterances. I already tried to > develop some skill to start/stop/change radio with Alexa for my own > piCorePlayer. I know that it is not only about translating, but also > about being creative for guessing how people may ask. > French

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

2019-12-21 Thread philchillbill
slartibartfast wrote: > Has Alexa allowed access to the built in music library intents in Europe > yet or are they still dragging their feet? > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk I found the built in intents both cumbersome and flaky when testing them. They also don’t allow as much

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

2019-12-21 Thread slartibartfast
philchillbill wrote: > Hahaha, just as I expected. It’s already fun when she’s set to English > and you ask her to play a German or French or Dutch song. You have to > get very phonetic. Thanks also for the offer. I’ll reach out when I’m > ready to start translating.Has Alexa allowed access to

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

2019-12-21 Thread philchillbill
Ludopi wrote: > I can help as well for French translation/utterances. I already tried to > develop some skill to start/stop/change radio with Alexa for my own > piCorePlayer. I know that it is not only about translating, but also > about being creative for guessing how people may ask. > French

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

2019-12-21 Thread Ludopi
philchillbill wrote: > Thank you very much for the offer. One of the reasons for the 4K lines > covering English is that I want users to be able to issue commands in as > many ways as possible. Contrary to popular belief, there's no > intelligence in Alexa. If the skill code has an utterance

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

2019-12-21 Thread philchillbill
DrMacabre wrote: > Well, if someday you feel like opening your skill to the french market, > just let me know, I’ll be glad to help if i can. Thank you very much for the offer. One of the reason for the 4K lines covering English is that I want users to be able to issue commands in as many ways

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

2019-12-21 Thread DrMacabre
philchillbill wrote: > EUR 50K in unmarked bills dropped at my front door :-) > > Seriously, the utterances for this skill are 4K lines of JSON. > Translating that would be a lot of work... Well, if someday you feel like opening your skill to the french market, just let me know, I’ll be glad

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

2019-12-21 Thread philchillbill
> what’s the requirements to have your skill translated and ported to > amazon.fr ? EUR 50K in unmarked bills dropped at my front door :-) Seriously, the utterances for this skill are 4K lines of JSON. Translating that would be a lot of work...

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

2019-12-21 Thread philchillbill
DrMacabre wrote: > I used certbot as far as i can see in my command line history, simply > used sudo certbot --apache after editing the apache2.conf. I have to > find the tutorial i followed to know exactly what was done, sorry > > > Edit : seems like i just followed the instructions from

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

2019-12-21 Thread DrMacabre
I used certbot as far as i can see in my command line history, simply used sudo certbot --apache after editing the apache2.conf. I have to find the tutorial i followed to know exactly what was done, sorry DrMacabre's

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

2019-12-21 Thread DrMacabre
philchillbill wrote: > > > EDIT: From the logs, your error is "ERROR Error: write EPROTO > 139995976206208:error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong > version number:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/ssl3_record.c:332:" > LetsEncrypt works just fine normally (I use it myself) -

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

2019-12-21 Thread philchillbill
DrMacabre wrote: > Good, it’s working fine with ngrok, now i have to figure how to get my > certificate up to amazon standard i guess. Thanks for your help. Good to hear. As I said, LetsEncrypt is normally fine. What switches did you use with certbot?

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

2019-12-21 Thread DrMacabre
Good, it’s working fine with ngrok, now i have to figure how to get my certificate up to amazon standard i guess. Thanks for your help. DrMacabre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69650 View this

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

2019-12-21 Thread DrMacabre
philchillbill wrote: > ngrok is a separate approach to Apache as it's an SSH tunnel rather than > a reverse proxy like Apache - they won't bite each other in any way. Ok cool, I’ll give it a try and keep you updated. Thanks.

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

2019-12-21 Thread philchillbill
david_f1976 wrote: > That would normally work but the specific favourite is a podcast so > don’t know the titles of the episodes - and these aren’t called out. I > can play the podcast by name - which adds all of the episodes to the > list - but was hoping I could just play the first episode. I

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

2019-12-21 Thread philchillbill
DrMacabre wrote: > Thanks for your quick reply, any chance ngrok will mess my server with > apache running among other things like domoticz ? My certificate comes > from lets encrypt and is associated with my domain. ngrok is a separate approach to Apache as it's an SSH tunnel rather than a

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

2019-12-21 Thread DrMacabre
philchillbill wrote: > If you get that error it means that Amazon didn’t like your cert. That > is probably because of the TLS version. It’s not only the expiry date - > there are other things too like if the issuing authority is trusted. Try > ngrok quickly and if that works then you know the

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

2019-12-21 Thread philchillbill
If you get that error it means that Amazon didn’t like your cert. That is probably because of the TLS version. It’s not only the expiry date - there are other things too like if the issuing authority is trusted. Try ngrok quickly and if that works then you know the rest of your setup is ok and

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

2019-12-21 Thread DrMacabre
Hello, Im trying to connect alexa to my server but it/she doesn't find it, she tells my certificate is invalid or expired which is not the case. I checked and the certificate expires January 31, 2020. I was not sure if i had to use the port in my url so I tried with and without with same

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

2019-12-21 Thread david_f1976
That would normally work but the specific favourite is a podcast so don’t know the titles of the episodes - and these aren’t called out. I can play the podcast by name - which adds all of the episodes to the list - but was hoping I could just play the first episode. Living Room: Boom Bedroom:

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

2019-12-21 Thread philchillbill
The positions are flattened to a single level of numbers. So if you ask to list favorites they will all be called out with a preceding number without dots. You can use that number or you can use the name, which may be even easier.

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

2019-12-21 Thread david_f1976
Is there a way to play a nested favourite by position? I see this was discussed earlier in the thread but didn’t see anything come of it. I have just tried “play favourite 11 dot 1” with no success. Living Room: Boom Bedroom: Boom Study: Radio Kitchen: Squeezeplay on Joggler In hibernation:

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

2019-12-20 Thread philchillbill
It has to speak German to be allowed on .de. That would be a lot of work with 4000 lines of intent samples. Don’t hold your breath. The workaround is to set your account to .co.uk, install the skill, change back to .de. The skill won’t disappear. If you want a subscription you’ll have to do

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

2019-12-20 Thread baztian
I would like to give MediaServer a try as it sound's really interesting. Unfortunateley I'm getting > It looks like your account is set up for Amazon.de! Click here to visit > the Skill Store on Amazon.de and browse skills available for your device > When will it be available on Amazon.de. Is

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

2019-12-17 Thread philchillbill
d6jg wrote: > You can’t as yet play FLACs through an Echo thingy except from Amazon > HD. > The skill will control an SB Player (and pseudo SB players) playing FLAC > but it will only play mp3 so far. To be strictly correct, FLACs don't play *natively* from an Echo thingy (yet) but they get

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

2019-12-17 Thread d6jg
kappclark wrote: > SO, I just got Alexa...total novice. Connected her to a Bose Sound Dock, > for improved mp3 sound, but want to play FLACS with Alexa... > > Is there a wiki / HOWTO on what I need to do to connect LMS to Alexa ? I > have it paying Christmas music now, but the ads need to go

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

2019-12-17 Thread philchillbill
kappclark wrote: > SO, I just got Alexa...total novice. Connected her to a Bose Sound Dock, > for improved mp3 sound, but want to play FLACS with Alexa... > > Is there a wiki / HOWTO on what I need to do to connect LMS to Alexa ? I > have it paying Christmas music now, but the ads need to go

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

2019-12-17 Thread kappclark
SO, I just got Alexa...total novice. Connected her to a Bose Sound Dock, for improved mp3 sound, but want to play FLACS with Alexa... Is there a wiki / HOWTO on what I need to do to connect LMS to Alexa ? I have it paying Christmas music now, but the ads need to go ... instread of getting

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

2019-12-15 Thread philchillbill
dunk wrote: > im really struggling to get the skill to do anything for me > > all's connected, linked via ngrok and subscribed, but almost all > requests result in amazon music trying to play and if a command does go > to the skill it sees all commands as a 'favourite' and asks me which >

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

2019-12-15 Thread slartibartfast
dunk wrote: > im really struggling to get the skill to do anything for me > > all's connected, linked via ngrok and subscribed, but almost all > requests result in amazon music trying to play and if a command does go > to the skill it sees all commands as a 'favourite' and asks me which >

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

2019-12-15 Thread dunk
im really struggling to get the skill to do anything for me all's connected, linked via ngrok and subscribed, but almost all requests result in amazon music trying to play and if a command does go to the skill it sees all commands as a 'favourite' and asks me which favourite to play, or it cant

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

2019-12-14 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > I reduced the favourites to 2 entries. The joggler can handle the > stream requests. Good to hear. So now you know what to ask Santa for... philchillbill's Profile:

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

2019-12-14 Thread castalla
castalla wrote: > Understood. I'll try with a flat list! > > My internet is pretty basic - max 6gb via wifi from nearest mountain > slope ... I reduced the favourites to 2 entries. The joggler can handle the stream requests. LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon PMA-50 Players/Speakers:

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

2019-12-13 Thread philchillbill
I can see in the logs that some people Stateside are trying hard to make their own lives as difficult as possible with this skill. ;) Hint: If you try a command 7 times in a row and each time she asks you "on what player?", it's because she cannot make sense of your player name. And likely

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

2019-12-13 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > Unfortunately, the only way to handle nested favorites is to make > several JSON trips out and back - there's simply no other way with the > LMS API. Having just one level with no folders will be quicker and may > save the day for you. Even if your desired favorite is at

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

2019-12-13 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > Hmm - tried again with Joggler. I reduced the favourites to 'On > mysqueezebox.com' and one Tunein stream. > > List favourites works. > > Stream favourite number 2 (tunein) works. > > So, looks like a long list of favourites screws up access. > > Could there be another

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

2019-12-13 Thread castalla
Hmm - tried again with Joggler. I reduced the favourites to 'On mysqueezebox.com' and one Tunein stream. List favourites works. Stream favourite number 2 (tunein) works. So, looks like a long list of favourites screws up access. Could there be another way to load the favouries list?

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

2019-12-13 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > > > > The 'card' at the end is what shows on your screen and it is correct (I > changed nothing recently in the code that produces that outcome). I just > did a test discovery myself and got the card no problem here. > > Are you still on the pi zero? If on the

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

2019-12-13 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > And now - the text display on Show for 'discover setup' fails to show > the on-screen text ... just a voice reply This is the (correct) response that's sent back to you: Code: { "version": "1.0", "response": { "outputSpeech": { "type":

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

2019-12-12 Thread castalla
And now - the text display on Show for 'discover setup' fails to show the on-screen text ... just a voice reply LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon PMA-50 Players/Speakers: Touch, Logitech Radios, Sonos Play 1s & Beam, Libratone Zipp, GGMM E2 & E3, Yamaha WXAD-010, Loewe Airspeaker, Google

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

2019-12-12 Thread castalla
Deary me ... encountering utter chaos with re-subscription. Last week, the list ffavourites worked fine on my LMS running on a Joggler. Today, I resub'ed and everything has gone awol! Can't list favourites ... and attempting to stream produced a working stream to some podcast in Russian (or

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

2019-12-12 Thread d6jg
philchillbill wrote: > Good to know. I still have no response from Amazon regarding streaming > FLAC to Echo devices. My feeling is that they will be tight-lipped but > as soon as there's a workable interface I'll be all over it. > > Does Qobuz show up in the list of installed apps in e.g.

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

2019-12-12 Thread philchillbill
d6jg wrote: > I reported the other day that Alexa in player mode (if we can call it > that) would not play Tidal as Alexa was not recognised as a registered > player at mySB.com. > I have now tried with Qobuz and it won't play that either, just skips > anything from there that you add to the

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

2019-12-12 Thread d6jg
I reported the other day that Alexa in player mode (if we can call it that) would not play Tidal as Alexa was not recognised as a registered player at mySB.com. I have now tried with Qobuz and it won't play that either, just skips anything from there that you add to the queue. This is with a

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

2019-12-11 Thread d6jg
philchillbill wrote: > In the logs, I'm not seeing a lot of people trying the Spotty commands > for playing Spotty playlists and Spotty podcasts. Did the > sub-announcement get lost in more mundane posts in this thread? Sigh... > :confused: Probably due to the fact that many Spotty users use it

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

2019-12-11 Thread philchillbill
In the logs, I'm not seeing a lot of people trying the Spotty commands for playing Spotty playlists and Spotty podcasts. Did the sub-announcement get lost in more mundane posts in this thread? Sigh... :confused:

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

2019-12-11 Thread d6jg
How do I re-enable subscription? VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE

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

2019-12-10 Thread philchillbill
One thing I hadn't yet got around to doing was trying out Philippe's excellent Group Players plugin with the skill :o I can confirm it works flawlessly. I created a group player called Downstairs with 3 members and asked Alexa to discover my players. There was indeed a new virtual player

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

2019-12-10 Thread philchillbill
tushma wrote: > So subscrition needed to get full access? Free, i can only skip, stop, > play and control volume? Free you can also enable/disable shuffle and repeat, ask for now-playing/duration/state, plus power on/off. If you want to ask for a particular song/album/genre/playlist/favorite

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

2019-12-10 Thread tushma
So subscrition needed to get full access? Free, i can only skip, stop, play and control volume? tushma's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69299 View this thread:

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

2019-12-09 Thread philchillbill
I've added some additional spoken error-reporting within the skill to address connectivity issues. Somebody using duckdns with nginx was throwing the odd '502 Bad Gateway' and if that occurs it will now be reported to help that user debug his/her setup. If LMS takes longer than 6.5 seconds to

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

2019-12-07 Thread tushma
philchillbill wrote: > If you're the person with 2 players called "Squeezeboxtouch, Squeezebox" > then I'd strongly suggest you give those players new names. What works > best is to use the name of the rooms that the players are in, e.g. > livingroom, bedroom, kitchen, etc. That's also

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

2019-12-07 Thread philchillbill
tushma wrote: > Thank you. Its working. Alexa discover my 2 players and name them but > she doesn't understand when I named them. If you're the person with 2 players called "Squeezeboxtouch, Squeezebox" then I'd strongly suggest you give those players new names. What works best is to use the

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

2019-12-07 Thread tushma
philchillbill wrote: > Tunnel should not be to 80 but to 9000 for LMS. 80 is for web browsing. > Did you read the online help? That’s all explained. Thank you. Its working. Alexa discover my 2 players and name them but she doesn't understand when I named them.

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

2019-12-07 Thread philchillbill
Tunnel should not be to 80 but to 9000 for LMS. 80 is for een browsing. Did you read the online help? That’s all explained. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk philchillbill's Profile:

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

2019-12-07 Thread tushma
What this means? Failed to complete tunnel connection The connection to https://25b6832f.ngrok.io was successfully tunneled to your ngrok client, but the client failed to establish a connection to the local address localhost:80. Make sure that a web service is running on localhost:80 and that

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

2019-12-05 Thread david_f1976
philchillbill wrote: > I just tested a few things and there were no issues. I’m on the > eu-west-1 endpoint. Where are you physically located? I saw some > connectivity issues in the US earlier today, with the us-east-1 > endpoint. > > Are other skills reachable for you? > > EDIT: I just made

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

2019-12-05 Thread philchillbill
I just tested a few things and there were no issues. I’m on the eu-west-1 endpoint. Where are you physically located? I saw some connectivity issues in the US earlier today, with the us-east-1 endpoint. Are other skills reachable for you?

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

2019-12-05 Thread david_f1976
I’ve just re-enabled the skill and most things appear to be working but I cannot get a stream to my echo working. I keep getting the response “Sorry, I am having trouble accessing your media server skill right now”. Any thoughts Living Room: SB3 -> Musical Fidelity X-DAC V3 -> Marantz PM-66SE

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