All,
I am using last_called_summary from the Alexa Media Player, but it’s obviously unreliable.
If I check the last_called_summary attribute when talking to Alexa it sometimes changes (seldomly) and and very often not.
In the App I have created some routines which tells me, that Alexa understood, but this phrase does only show up sometimes in the attribute.
I am using Nabu Casa.
Anyone with the same experience?
No one using this (powerful) feature or just without issues?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Turns out that calling this service forces an update:
service: alexa_media.update_last_called
You are right - that seems to work.
Thank you so much.
I will try to implement this right away
The only thing is, that there is no indication that one of the Echos has been called.
So I would need to poll / update my 5 Echos permanently, which seems to be an overkill.
Recognizing that your Echos may be a different model than mine–I have a bunch of gen 2 Echos. In Developer Tools>States, if I filter the Attributes column with ‘last_called’, they all show a value. After a reboot, before calling the alexa_media.update_last_called service, that value is ‘null’ but, after then calling update_last_called, they all become ‘false’ except one which is ‘true’. The same applies to my Alexa-capable Sonos speakers.