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

2019-12-05 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > It's a combination of several JSON roundtrips from the cloud to your > house to your LMS and back. If e.g. you have slow internet upload speed, > even a fast LMS might not help. But be warned that a pi2 is not going to > be much better than a zero, although at least you

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

2019-12-05 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > Interesting info! That's the first glitch I've encountered with using > the pi zero for LMS ... I've no idea about paging (as I just used a > how-to install Debian guide). I could try with a second LMS server on > a pi2 (if I can figure out how to switch LMS server in

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

2019-12-05 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > No metadata is correct. The buffering issue means that the Echo and LMS > are out of step so the metadata would quickly become incorrect. > > List favorites will always fail for you (so will Play/Stream favorite > because it has to list first under the hood). Your RPi

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

2019-12-05 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > Okay, finally got a song to play ... but no metadata on echo stream (is > that correct?) > > List favourites still fails. No metadata is correct. The buffering issue means that the Echo and LMS are out of step so the metadata would quickly become incorrect. List favorites

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

2019-12-05 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > From the log, Alexa understood 'Fade' instead of 'Keeping Faith'. Try > again ! > > Edit: The retry was closer (Keeping the Faith) but it didn't match in > your library. Are you sure you have that song locally and that it's not > on Spotty or something? > Edit#2: The

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

2019-12-05 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > Tried various commands - no luck > > Stream the sonng Keeping Faith by Amy Wadge opened the playing screen > ... but nothing played. >From the log, Alexa understood 'Fade' instead of 'Keeping Faith'. Try again !

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

2019-12-05 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > You attempted to list favorites at 2019-12-05T17:14:23.542Z. Amazon sent > me an error "2019-12-05T17:14:31.549Z > a2051a0f-754e-4010-8c0a-44dcfe67c6aa Task timed out after 8.01 seconds". > Listing favorites is taking more than 8 seconds. Try something that > might

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

2019-12-05 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > using ngrok > > list players works without problems > > List Players: > > MediaServer > > You have 4 players: Black, Touch, Priva1, Priva2. > > I rebooted the router with echo show - same issues You attempted to list favorites at 2019-12-05T17:14:23.542Z. Amazon sent me

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

2019-12-05 Thread philchillbill
philchillbill wrote: > I'm also seeing strange SSL cert errors from openssl. Are you using > ngrok or home-brew? If ngrok, does it work in a broswer? Do any simpler > commands work, such as "play some jazz"? The thing about ALL skills is that they are given 8 seconds to return a response to

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

2019-12-05 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > I'm also seeing strange SSL cert errors from openssl. Are you using > ngrok or home-brew? If ngrok, does it work in a broswer? Do any simpler > commands work, such as "play some jazz"? using ngrok list players works without problems List Players: MediaServer You have

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

2019-12-05 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > errr ... no > > I've tried 2 different echos on 2 separate networks - same response. I'm also seeing strange SSL cert errors from openssl. Are you using ngrok or home-brew? If ngrok, does it work in a broswer? Do any simpler commands work, such as "play some jazz"?

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

2019-12-05 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > From the logs it looks like your connectivity is currently quite flaky. > Timeouts and such. Do you have an outage? errr ... no I've tried 2 different echos on 2 separate networks - same response. LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon PMA-50 Players/Speakers: Touch,

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

2019-12-05 Thread philchillbill
>From the logs it looks like your connectivity is currently quite flaky. Timeouts and such. Do you have an outage? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread:

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

2019-12-05 Thread castalla
Hi I just enabled a subscription. All I get on 'List favourites' is a message saying could access the skill ... Discover setup gives list of playerrs. Under Manage Subs. everything looks okay. ??? LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon PMA-50 Players/Speakers: Touch, Logitech Radios, Sonos

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

2019-12-05 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > oops ... I meant the echo equaliser itself Alexa would handle that herself if it were possible, not a skill. Just like the volume setting of the echo is done by her directly. philchillbill's Profile:

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

2019-12-05 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > For sure. However, the docs state that bass/treble setting ".. is only > supported by SliMP3 and SqueezeBox (SB1) players." So I took it off my > list of original features for that reason. oops ... I meant the echo equaliser itself LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon

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

2019-12-04 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > Would it be possible to add a command(s) to adjust the equaliser > settings? For sure. However, the docs state that bass/treble setting ".. is only supported by SliMP3 and SqueezeBox (SB1) players." So I took it off my list of original features for that reason.

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

2019-12-04 Thread castalla
Would it be possible to add a command(s) to adjust the equaliser settings? 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,

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

2019-12-04 Thread philchillbill
Have you tried using your ngrok tunnel url from a browser? It’s very likely failing there too. Maybe the error message there will be clearer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk philchillbill's Profile:

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

2019-12-04 Thread tushma
tushma wrote: > Hahaha. Yes. Very probably its me. Its says something about this > tunnels. Ill try to restore account and add new vald tunnel. Thnx! Still nothing. It says : POST /jsonrpc.js 502 Bad Gateway tushma's

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

2019-12-04 Thread tushma
philchillbill wrote: > The only failed discovery messages I see in the log are from somebody > who linked the skill with ngrok (validly) but then killed the ngrok > tunnel so that they would need to redo account linking with a new/valid > tunnel (and not kill that one !). Might that be you?

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

2019-12-04 Thread philchillbill
tushma wrote: > It says to check on alexa skils settings. Contact developer or > something. Nothing special. The only failed discovery messages I see in the log are from somebody who linked the skill with ngrok (validly) but then killed the ngrok tunnel so that they would need to redo account

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

2019-12-04 Thread tushma
philchillbill wrote: > The Mac mini does not need the Mic - it's the Alexa device that needs it > and the Fire tablet handles that. What is Alexa telling you when > discovery fails? It says to check on alexa skils settings. Contact developer or something. Nothing special.

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

2019-12-04 Thread philchillbill
Regarding Spotty playlists and podcasts, I've made it possible to deliberately target them and skip over your regular LMS playlists in the search if you want. That's slightly faster if you know you want Spotty anyway and also avoids issues of what to do when both lists have overlapping entries.

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

2019-12-04 Thread d6jg
philchillbill wrote: > I just verified I could navigate the menu structure. Didn’t bother > listening if anything played. I’ll check tomorrow. > > > Edit: It does play. But the Deezer account I'm logged in to is not mine > and I don't see a playlist structure - just genre categories. No idea

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

2019-12-04 Thread philchillbill
tushma wrote: > Im trying to control LMS on my Mac mini with Amazon fire tablet with > alexa. Ive menage to installed everything but alexa on tablet cant > discover any playeri ( i have touch and classic). I tought maybe its > because my mac mini dont have any microphone? Maybe something to

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

2019-12-04 Thread tushma
Im trying to control LMS on my Mac mini with Amazon fire tablet with alexa. Ive menage to installed everything but alexa on tablet cant discover any playeri ( i have touch and classic). I tought maybe its because my mac mini dont have any microphone? Maybe something to install on touch? Or

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

2019-12-03 Thread philchillbill
I just verified I could navigate the menu structure. Didn’t bother listening if anything played. I’ll check tomorrow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk philchillbill's Profile:

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

2019-12-03 Thread d6jg
d6jg wrote: > I’m currently trialing Tidal but it could equally be Qobuz or Deezer. > That said there are 2 aspects of your skill that will work in different > ways for me. 1 is the voice control of “proper” LMS players all of which > can and will play FLAC. 2 is the creation of a new breed of

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

2019-12-03 Thread d6jg
philchillbill wrote: > Thanks. The way I wrote it just parses the menu structure for plugins, > so it immediately scales and works for any plugin (I verified Deezer > too). Until I add the specific voice commands it's best to keep it > limited to Spotty for now. Having too many fallback searches

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

2019-12-03 Thread philchillbill
Thanks. The way I wrote it just parses the menu structure for plugins, so it immediately scales and works for any plugin (I verified Deezer too). Until I add the specific voice commands it's best to keep it limited to Spotty for now. Having too many fallback searches could take us over the

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

2019-12-03 Thread d6jg
Nice work. I don’t do Podcasts but the playlist stuff is great. Will this eventually be applied to other streaming services supported by LMS do you think? VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320

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

2019-12-03 Thread philchillbill
philchillbill wrote: > Spotty support is improving greatly! :cool: > > The command "Play my Christmas Songs playlist" (e.g.) will now first > look in your regular LMS playlists for something called Christmas Songs. > If there's no match, instead of just barfing it will search your Spotty >

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

2019-12-03 Thread philchillbill
Spotty support is improving greatly! :cool: The command "Play my Christmas Songs playlist" (e.g.) will now first look in your regular LMS playlists for something called Christmas Songs. If there's no match, instead of just barfing it will search your Spotty playlists and look for it there. If

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

2019-12-03 Thread philchillbill
Good to hear ! There's help on how to set it up at https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/mediaserverhelp.html on the Server Configuration tab. ngrok should be pretty easy to set up. Good luck with it ! philchillbill's

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

2019-12-03 Thread rdakin
philchillbill wrote: > That’s a pity. Amazon very recently added ISP for some new languages, > including Italian. This unfortunately means that only skills in Italian > are available if they have ISP. I have the same problem in e.g Germany, > where ISP has been available longer. > > You might

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

2019-12-03 Thread philchillbill
That’s a pity. Amazon very recently added ISP for some new languages, including Italian. This unfortunately means that only skills in Italian are available if they have ISP. I have the same problem in e.g Germany, where ISP has been available longer.

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

2019-12-03 Thread rdakin
This looks like an exciting addition ! I am in Italy and my Amazon account will not allow me to use the UK site to get this skill, is there any reason why I cannot find the download in the Italian amazon site ? I have a working echo show and I do not seem to have any language or location

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

2019-12-02 Thread philchillbill
I've made some changed to the Play Favorites underlying code so it will now play any spotty playlists that are included in your regular LMS favorites. This already worked for songs that were favorites but not albums/playlists. Regular commands such as asking What's Playing? and transport

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

2019-11-30 Thread d6jg
philchillbill wrote: > Thanks Paul - good suggestion. I tried with an mp3 file directly first > instead of stream.mp3 from LMS just to verify I was doing things > correctly, and that worked as expected. When I switched things to a flac > file, it failed. The error log showed this: > > > Code:

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

2019-11-30 Thread philchillbill
Thanks Paul - good suggestion. I tried with an mp3 file directly first instead of stream.mp3 from LMS just to verify I was doing things correctly, and that worked as expected. When I switched things to a flac file, it failed. The error log showed this: Code:

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

2019-11-30 Thread Paul Webster
LMS stream.mp3 emulates a SHOUTcast server. So one way to do it is to test it is to install a real SHOUTcast server and point your Alexa device to that ... then give the server a flac stream via a local Winamp. All a bit fiddly. Easier put a flac file on a web server and tell Alexa to play that

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

2019-11-29 Thread philchillbill
d6jg wrote: > https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8=3022219031 Thanks, I'm akready aware of the HD possibility. Here's the quoted spec for streaming to an Echo: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/audioplayer-interface-reference.html#audio-stream-requirements. No FLAC and max 384K

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

2019-11-29 Thread d6jg
philchillbill wrote: > Not via the AudioPlayer interface they won’t. Either Amazon has upped > the spec and not updated the docs, or those babies use a different > (undocumented) interface. > > > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8=3022219031 VB2.4[/B]

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

2019-11-29 Thread philchillbill
Not via the AudioPlayer interface they won’t. Either Amazon has upped the spec and not updated the docs, or those babies use a different (undocumented) interface. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk philchillbill's

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

2019-11-29 Thread d6jg
philchillbill wrote: > Glad to hear it’s working well for you. I’d love to have FLAC streaming > too so if stream.flc can be done I’ll gladly implement it in the skill. > > > Currently, the Amazon-supported formats for the audio file include > AAC/MP4, MP3, PLS, M3U/M3U8, and HLS. Bitrates:

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

2019-11-29 Thread philchillbill
Glad to hear it’s working well for you. I’d love to have FLAC streaming too so if stream.flc can be done I’ll gladly implement it in the skill. Currently, the Amazon-supported formats for the audio file include AAC/MP4, MP3, PLS, M3U/M3U8, and HLS. Bitrates: 16kbps to 384 kbps. Hardly

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

2019-11-29 Thread d6jg
Today I re-enabled the skill. Fired up ngrok and started using the “stream” commands with a newly acquired Echo Flex that is paired with a set of in ceiling Bluetooth speakers in my newly refurbished bathroom. Nice! This works really well!!! The only downside I can see that would stop me from

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

2019-11-29 Thread philchillbill
> > If those details are mandatory, would it be better to remove 'If > applicable'? Well, they're not mandatory, just very strongly advised. Whether you do or do not use them, the form entries will always need to reflect what you actually use.

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

2019-11-29 Thread philchillbill
philchillbill wrote: > If you used the -auth switch with ngrok as documented then you specified > a username and password for your tunnel (highly recommended). The > username and password you enter into the account linking form should > match what you used with that -auth switch, otherwise the

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

2019-11-29 Thread philchillbill
If you used the -auth switch with ngrok as documented then you specified a username and password for your tunnel (highly recommended). The username and password you enter into the account linking form should match what you used with that -auth switch, otherwise the tunnel is valid but it cannot

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

2019-11-29 Thread frozzers
philchillbill wrote: > Good to hear. But I hope you’re forwarding 9000 in reality and not 80 as > LMS is usually on 9000. Or is macOS an exception? > > Yes, Amazon thankfully imposes https on everything. > > > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk No I must have forwarded port 80 as this was

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

2019-11-28 Thread philchillbill
Good to hear. But I hope you’re forwarding 9000 in reality and not 80 as LMS is usually on 9000. Or is macOS an exception? Yes, Amazon thankfully imposes https on everything. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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

2019-11-28 Thread frozzers
philchillbill wrote: > I played with it on mac just now and disown worked fine. So did all the > other commands. But I'm not on the zsh shell so that may be it. Can you > get back to a normal bash shell? I changed to normal bash shell but it still didn't work. (By the way, Mac OS Catalina

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

2019-11-28 Thread philchillbill
frozzers wrote: > I'm using LMS on a Mac and struggling to set this up. > > I've followed the instructions on the help page: > > 1. Set up a free account with ngrok and downloaded it. > 2. Connected my account using the authtoken. > 3. Moved ngrok to local/usr/bin > 4. Ran command (with my

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

2019-11-28 Thread philchillbill
slartibartfast wrote: > I didn't need to use disown on my Raspberry Pi either. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Yes - I remember :-) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk philchillbill's Profile:

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

2019-11-28 Thread slartibartfast
philchillbill wrote: > Maybe disown is unsupported or unneeded on Mac. I’ve never tried Mac but > will do so today so I can help from now on.I didn't need to use disown on my > Raspberry Pi either. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

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

2019-11-28 Thread philchillbill
frozzers wrote: > I'm using LMS on a Mac and struggling to set this up. > > I've followed the instructions on the help page: > > 1. Set up a free account with ngrok and downloaded it. > 2. Connected my account using the authtoken. > 3. Moved ngrok to local/usr/bin > 4. Ran command (with my

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

2019-11-28 Thread slartibartfast
castalla wrote: > You have better recall than I do!I had the same issue when I first set up the > skill . No doubt I will have similar issues when I eventually need to reboot my server and relink the skill. [emoji3] Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

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

2019-11-28 Thread frozzers
I'm using LMS on a Mac and struggling to set this up. I've followed the instructions on the help page: 1. Set up a free account with ngrok and downloaded it. 2. Connected my account using the authtoken. 3. Moved ngrok to local/usr/bin 4. Ran command (with my user credentials): ngrok http -auth

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

2019-11-28 Thread castalla
castalla wrote: > Yep! I was thrown by the LMS reference - thinking 'I don't have > user/password access set for LMS' I left the data blank. Just realised > it actually means 'Your Alexa account details' seems to have worked > now! > > Cheers. You have better recall than I do! LMS

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

2019-11-28 Thread philchillbill
> Does the skill still enable repeat when playback is started on an SB > Player? I really don’t understand the logic of this default behaviour > when we have DSTM. You said it was explained in the documentation but I > couldn’t see it. I've now removed all functionality that imposes repeat

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

2019-11-28 Thread philchillbill
> Yep! I was thrown by the LMS reference - thinking 'I don't have > user/password access set for LMS' I left the data blank. Just realised > it actually means 'Your Alexa account details' seems to have worked > now! > I just had a deja-vu moment. Check post #131 in this thread ;) It's

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

2019-11-27 Thread castalla
castalla wrote: > Sounds excellent! > > I was really looking forward to the streaming feature, and got an Echo > Show 5 (Black Friday deal) for this. I quickly discovered a ridiculous > limitation the Show has ... it can stream nicely but the metadata is > very quickly covered by the stupid

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

2019-11-27 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > Then you must have entered the wrong auth details in the linking > form... > > > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Yep! I was thrown by the LMS reference - thinking 'I don't have user/password access set for LMS' I left the data blank. Just realised it actually

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

2019-11-27 Thread philchillbill
Then you must have entered the wrong auth details in the linking form... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread:

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

2019-11-27 Thread castalla
Oh dear - just tried to relink the skill, and I get: ngrok reports authorization failure ngrok is on debiian buster on a pi. 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

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

2019-11-27 Thread philchillbill
I don’t try to set the bit rate so it must be a default rate decided somewhere in LMS. Maybe Michael knows what it would be? Sorry, the docs reference was to shuffle being auto enabled for playlists. There is indeed nothing about repeat. I can of course stop enabling repeat by default but I

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

2019-11-27 Thread d6jg
I’ll re-enable the skill to try this!innthe next few days but 2 questions. 1. The Alexa playback must be using stream.mp3 but is this going to be at a sensible bit rate e.g 320 Kbps? 2. Does the skill still enable repeat when playback is started on an SB Player? I really don’t understand the

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

2019-11-27 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > Good news! V2.0 of the skill has been certified by Amazon and brings the > number of intents supported from 69 to 95. The main changes include > support for streaming audio to an Echo as audio sink, new commands to > address favorites, playing and querying

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

2019-11-27 Thread philchillbill
Good news! V2.0 of the skill has been certified by Amazon and brings the number of intents supported from 69 to 95. The main changes include support for streaming audio to an Echo as audio sink, new commands to address favorites, playing and querying newly-added/scanned albums, playing the

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

2019-11-18 Thread Jayhawk
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2019-11-14 Thread slartibartfast
bakker_be wrote: > Even though I have no use at all for anything Alexa, I've added my vote > ;)[emoji106] Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk slartibartfast's Profile:

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

2019-11-14 Thread bakker_be
slartibartfast wrote: > There is a feature request to allow the user to issue commands to skills > in Routines rather than just opening the skill. >

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

2019-11-13 Thread slartibartfast
There is a feature request to allow the user to issue commands to skills in Routines rather than just opening the skill. https://alexa.uservoice.com/forums/906892-alexa-skills-developer-voice-and-vote/suggestions/38797276-allow-users-to-invoke-skill-intents-in-routine Please add your vote to

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

2019-11-10 Thread slartibartfast
philchillbill wrote: > Yep, but I doubt you'll be able to send a command to a skill so it will > be pretty useless. It's more for starting a skill that auto-plays beach > sounds through your echo speaker, and that kind of nonsense :)Seems you were > right about Alexa routines. You can only

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

2019-11-09 Thread dbinder101
Never mind, I figured it out...I needed to rename Touch to something else (I used Family). Works like a charm, I was able to play around with many of the commands and they work well. Thank you so much! dbinder101's

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

2019-11-09 Thread dbinder101
Thank you much, Paul, that worked! However, the skill is only recognizes my Radio and not my Touch. When I ask her what are my players, she only mentions the Radio. I checked the LMS settings and it shows both the Radio and Touch players. Any idea?

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

2019-11-09 Thread Paul Webster
Just do the http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels from your web browser and you will find the same information. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin Paul Webster's Profile:

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

2019-11-09 Thread dbinder101
But then it says: "To find our assigned tunnel subdomain, we can query the ngrok web UI at port 4040 for the public_url entry by typing disown; curl -s http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels | grep -Po https://.+?\.io The result will look something like https://19279a3a.ngrok.io; I need the

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

2019-11-09 Thread philchillbill
You only need disown on Linux - it allows you to close the terminal without the process being terminated. On PC you’re good to go as long as you keep ngrok running. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk philchillbill's

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

2019-11-09 Thread dbinder101
Yes, I was able to download, install, and run ngrok. But then the instructions say to run disown which is needed to link my LMS. There is no disown command in Windows 10. dbinder101's Profile:

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

2019-11-07 Thread Paul Webster
dbinder101 wrote: > It seems from what I read on the setup page, that the commands are > geared for Linux platforms. Is there a guide that explains how to set > this up in Windows 10? Thanks. Probably the easiest way is to try it out is to run ngrok https://ngrok.com/download Note - if you

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

2019-11-07 Thread dbinder101
It seems from what I read on the setup page, that the commands are geared for Linux platforms. Is there a guide that explains how to set this up in Windows 10? Thanks. dbinder101's Profile:

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

2019-11-07 Thread castalla
d6jg wrote: > Still looking forward to trying it though - would be fine as a bedside > or kitchen device Wonder what it would sound like on an echo show 5 ? Mymedia mp3 files sound okay on an echo dot 3 LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon PMA-50 Players/Speakers: Touch, Logitech Radios,

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

2019-11-07 Thread d6jg
philchillbill wrote: > Yes. Good point. :o Sounds better than Amazon Prime though :D Still looking forward to trying it though - would be fine as a bedside or kitchen device VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* -

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

2019-11-07 Thread philchillbill
> Is this using stream.mp3 and therefore limited to mp3 quality? Yes. Good point. :o Sounds better than Amazon Prime though :D philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this

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

2019-11-07 Thread d6jg
philchillbill wrote: > Yep - works consistently. It’s actually really nice that the music > emanating from the Echo stops the moment you say Alexa to let you > complete a command in peace :) This will require recertification though > as I had to add several new commands to the voice model. Just

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

2019-11-07 Thread philchillbill
Yep - works consistently. It’s actually really nice that the music emanating from the Echo stops the moment you say Alexa to let you complete a command in peace :) This will require recertification though as I had to add several new commands to the voice model. Just rolling some other

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

2019-11-07 Thread castalla
On a different topic: Any developents with the LMS to echo skill? 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 Home Mini, Pioneer WX-SMA1, Roberts S1, O2

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

2019-11-07 Thread Lukor-1975
Paul Webster wrote: > Could contrive something that would not work with central Alexa plus > distributed Squeezeboxes ... > > Ask Media Server to play The Beatles from Spotify in daughter’s bedroom > > Easy solution, of course, would be to put an Alexa device in that > bedroom but that might

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

2019-11-07 Thread Lukor-1975
mherger wrote: > > I wonder what that would look like in JSON commands? In 'normal' LMS > > control, you can query the library by string-search or IDs and > request > > building a playlist accordingly. Is that functionality > > exposed/extended/embraced by Spotty in some way? > > Spotty

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

2019-11-07 Thread Paul Webster
Could contrive something that would not work with central Alexa plus distributed Squeezeboxes ... Ask Media Server to play The Beatles from Spotify in daughter’s bedroom Easy solution, of course, would be to put an Alexa device in that bedroom but that might not be a wanted approach. Very

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

2019-11-07 Thread philchillbill
> > > Spotty doesn't expose generic commands to search etc. It's "only" > providing menu navigation (as cpd73 lined out). Which might make it hard > > to access through Alexa. > > But wouldn't Alexa support Spotify out of the box anyway? > > -- > > Michael Just as I thought. No idea

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

2019-11-07 Thread philchillbill
For clarity, what was the exact command that worked for you? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016

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

2019-11-07 Thread Michael Herger
I wonder what that would look like in JSON commands? In 'normal' LMS control, you can query the library by string-search or IDs and request building a playlist accordingly. Is that functionality exposed/extended/embraced by Spotty in some way? Spotty doesn't expose generic commands to search

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

2019-11-07 Thread castalla
Lukor-1975 wrote: > Yes, I think that's it. Maybe it ist possible to navigate through > running Playlists when the LMS is allready playing Songs from Spotty? I tried this - no luck. 'MediaServer can't help you with that' LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon PMA-50 Players/Speakers: Touch,

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

2019-11-07 Thread cpd73
philchillbill wrote: > I wonder what that would look like in JSON commands? In 'normal' LMS > control, you can query the library by string-search or IDs and request > building a playlist accordingly. Is that functionality > exposed/extended/embraced by Spotty in some way? You can either use

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

2019-11-07 Thread d6jg
philchillbill wrote: > I wonder what that would look like in JSON commands? In 'normal' LMS > control, you can query the library by string-search or IDs and request > building a playlist accordingly. Is that functionality > exposed/extended/embraced by Spotty in some way? Its all available

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

2019-11-07 Thread Lukor-1975
Paul Webster wrote: > I think the request is to have something like ... > > Ask Media Server to tell Spotty to play the Christmas Is Coming playlist Yes, I think that's it. Maybe it ist possible to navigate through running Playlists when the LMS is allready playing Songs from Spotty?

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