Alexa is not speaking to me

Third party integrations
1

I added the Alexa Media Player from the HACS store and configured it, but I’m not getting a peep out of Alexa.

I can see my devices under the the AMP integration, including their type and firmware version, but running a test automation didn’t produce any sound. If i look at one of the devices, it says it’s in standby and DND is off. Clicking the on button doesn’t seem to do anything, but I’m not sure what it’s supposed to do.

I tried to test this with TTS using Media Player, but my Echo devices don’t show up. I do see two Home Assistant Cloud icons, one looks like a house and the other looks like a speaker. Neither one works, but i don’t know the difference between the two.

I suspect it could be my 2FA configuration for AMP, but then why am i seeing the device details for my various echo/Firestick devices.

TIA

2

What do you mean by this?

AMP requires the use of the Notification component for TTS. As with other HA notifiers, you should see specific notify actions for each of your Alexa devices as well as a general one notify.alexa_media in the Actions tool.

3

I went to Media->text-to-speach->Home Assistant Cloud, but Alexa does not show up in the drop down.

I also tested TTS in an automation, but it did not produce any sound.

I also tried to send a notification in Developer Tools, but that produced an unknown error. Although i suspect my Target syntax may not be correct.

4

action: notify.alexa_media_office_echo_dot

data:

target: alexa_media_office_echo_dot

message: Test message

This works, but the delay is pretty bad.

5

action: notify.alexa_media

data:

message: Front Door Motion

target: media_player.office_echo_dot

data:

type: tts

Also works and seems faster. I wonder if i could use cache=true with this. :thinking: