Alexa addon

D4VEW557 · May 11, 2019, 8:43pm

Hi all,

I have Alexa connected via the home assistant cloud and I can control my lights, switches etc
but I can not get Alexa connected as a media player.

I have installed the files as per Keaton Taylor’s GitHub page and inserted

alexa_media:
  accounts:
    - email: !secret amazon_user
      password: !secret amazon_password
      url: amazon.com

into my config.yaml but all I get is a config error

Configuration invalidCHECK CONFIG

Integration not found: alexa_media

Is there some thing I am missing?

Thanks in advance.

anon34565116 · May 11, 2019, 8:57pm

Lots of things missing.

What version of Home Assistant, type of install, & install platform?
What version of the Media Player files? How exactly did you install them? The instructions have varied over time.

I have it working with Hassio & version 0.92.2 with media player version 1.2.5.

D4VEW557 · May 11, 2019, 9:16pm

I am using Hassio 0.92.2 on a PI.

I created a file call custom_components then in that file, a file called Alexa_media.
I then put files callled

 _init_.py
 const.py
 media_player.py
 notify.py

and copied the raw data from the corresponding GitHub files.

I don’t know where to find the media player version, could you please advise.

Thanks

anon34565116 · May 11, 2019, 10:11pm

Those files need to be in a folder names alexa_media. Notice the lowercase a.

D4VEW557 · May 11, 2019, 10:18pm

I have the files named as follows

Does that look correct?

anon34565116 · May 11, 2019, 10:26pm

No
Grab the new version. There were some changes made for 0.92
I have manfest.json & services.yaml files too.

D4VEW557 · May 11, 2019, 10:33pm

Do these two other files go in the alexa_media file with the others?

Thanks

anon34565116 · May 11, 2019, 10:35pm

Yes but to be safe, download the latest version from here.

D4VEW557 · May 11, 2019, 10:41pm

Ok thanks. I have copied the files from the link

It now looks like this

alexa

Does that look better

anon34565116 · May 11, 2019, 10:54pm

My __init__.py file is only 1KB not 25 KB.

After successfully starting there will be a folder named __pycache__ created too.

Dixey · May 11, 2019, 10:57pm

dunno if it’s just formatting here but the __init__.py file should have TWO underscores before and after the init part.

D4VEW557 · May 11, 2019, 11:00pm

I don’t know why it is a different size, I have not changed it in any way.

it looks like this now

Which is good news, but I still get a config error.

What did you put in the config.yaml file?

Thanks

Dixey · May 11, 2019, 11:04pm

alexa_media:
  accounts:
    - email: !secret amazon_email
      password: !secret amazon_password
      url: amazon.com

nothing more needed if you are U.S.

D4VEW557 · May 11, 2019, 11:11pm

I’ll give it a try, but I am in the UK so could it require something different?

Dixey · May 11, 2019, 11:14pm

try amazon.uk

D4VEW557 · May 11, 2019, 11:22pm

well all looked good no config errors, so I restarted HA and then got this notification

alexa

The link doesn’t work

Dixey · May 11, 2019, 11:39pm

Yer talking to a damn Yank. You will need advice from your side of the pond now.

D4VEW557 · May 11, 2019, 11:41pm

Thanks for the help so far. It must be close to working surely.

anon34565116 · May 11, 2019, 11:48pm

You could try `amazon.co.uk’. Here is the “official” support thread.

D4VEW557 · May 11, 2019, 11:56pm

I think you have cracked it.

I now have the captcha coming up but as I’m a fool I have entered the wrong email in the config file.

Corrected it now just waiting for a restart.