Alexa - "I cannot play that on TuneIn."

[Damiroquai]

Hi all, I’m using mini-media-player to send commands to my Alexa and play various radio stations with a push of a button - using TuneIn. Up until a month or so (can’t really be exact cause I haven’t listened to that radio station for a while) my Otvoreni radio played without issues using this:

- type: custom
name: Otvoreni
id: play Otvoreni on tunein

Now Alexa just says “I cannot play that on TuneIn.”. Weirdly, I have no problems with starting that specific radio station directly on my Alexa via TuneIn.

Listen to Otvoreni on TuneIn

Does anyone know what could be the reason? Other radio stations (and I have around 30 of them) all play without issues.

Thanks

[JeromeO (Jérôme Oudoul)]

Try with FM after the name of the radio. It works for me in a script :

alias: "Media : play Otvoreni on Office"
sequence:
  - service: media_player.play_media
    data:
      media_content_type: TUNEIN
      media_content_id: Otvoreni FM
      enqueue: replace
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.office
mode: single
icon: mdi:play

I had a similar issue here

How to play radio stations on an Alexa devices?

Hi Jerome, if you use media_content_type: TUNEIN don’t use play if you use media_content_type: custom use the whole string: play station_name on TUNEIN Always use the syntax as it is shown in Tunein, for example, if you search for Frequence3 in Tunein you’ll get this (all station names): [image] because it is seems not to be a clear search phrase. But if you search for Frequence 3 you got exactly one station only with this name: [image] I also found Fréquence 3 FM → there and using …

[Damiroquai]

That worked. I swear I tried that already and it didn’t work. I tried everything, Otvoreni Radio, Otvoreni Zagreb, Otvoreni Croatia, otvoreni frequency… Can’t believe I missed FM, thanks a lot!

It would be great if you could also find a way to play Sveriges Radio P1, P2 and P3. I can’t get those to play for the life of me…

[JeromeO (Jérôme Oudoul)]

@Damiroquai

Sveriges Radio P1

Sveriges Radio P1 is available on TuneIn (if that’s the one you had in mind)

P1, 92.4 FM, Stockholm, Sweden | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn

And it does work with this script for instance :

alias: "Media : play Sveriges Radio P1 on Dining"
sequence:
  - service: media_player.play_media
    data:
      media_content_type: TUNEIN
      media_content_id: Sveriges Radio P1
      enqueue: replace
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.dining
mode: single
icon: mdi:play

If I replace P1 by P2 in the script, a radio starts (in Swedish too it seems) but I don’t know if that is the one you’re expecting
Haven’t tried the others.