Alexa Mediaplayer action and Appdaemon

Third party integrations AppDaemon
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Hello,
I am using the integration “Alexa Mediaplayer” and in HA Automations it is used like this in Yaml:

> action: notify.alexa_media
> metadata: {}
> data:
>   data:
>     type: announce
>   target:
>     - media_player.wohnzimmer
>     - media_player.buro
>     - media_player.cassian
>   message: "Spülmaschine ist gelaufen "

I can imagine something like this in python

self.call_service(service = "notify.alexa_media", message="Spülmaschine ist gelaufen")

But how to specify the array of targets? A named parameter with array? targets=[a, b, c] ???
How to set the type that is oddly nested under a 2nd data:?
How to deal with the nested data in general?

In HA I can easily copy/paste or use the UI without a deeper understanding but in python I should understand it.
Unfortunately the documentation on call_service() is close to “it exists, guess the rest” while my understanding on HA services is also not sooo advanced.

Any ideas where I can find more information?

Regards Marc

2

I found out python likes / and behaves more like a path to a service.

self.call_service("notify/alexa_media", message="das ist ein test für service", target="Cassian")

That works ans Alexa talks… that is enough to playaround how to feed in additional options,

3

HI,
just to avoid that another guy has to reverse engineer this with felt million of tests…
Here a small app that can announce/tts text to alexa and set a volume for the echos.

It took ages to find out that one service expects “target” while the other uses “entity_id” as named variable but both consume an array of strings like media_player.xyz

class HelloWorld(hass.Hass):

  def initialize(self):
    self.data_s = {
    "type": "announce",
    "method": "speak"}

    
    self.target_s =  ["media_player.buro", "media_player.cassian"]
    

 
  def call_out(self, my_text):
   self.call_service("media_player/volume_set", entity_id = self.target_s, volume_level = 0.5)
   self.call_service("notify/alexa_media", message=my_text, target=self.target_s, data = self.data_s)
   self.log("alexa done")