Echo Devices (Alexa) as Media Player - Testers Needed

[alandtse]

Logs please.

[Michael_Grossman]

did you try the suggestions above. Deleting the pickle file and rebooting fixed it for me.

[ghstudio (douglas weiss)]

Yes, I deleted the pickle files…I now have no pickle files, even after trying to log on to amazon many times.

what logs do you want? Logger doesn’t show anything other than apple_media started. nothing under development tools log. Tell me what to create/send.

[Dixey]

I had those issues on previous versions. They went away after upgrading to v2.0

[Dixey]

Now you got my attention. Okay, just verified my firesticks are running the latest/greatest. added tts to my media_player:

              - type: custom:mini-media-player
                name: Livingroom
                entity: media_player.livingroom_firestick
                tts:
                  platform: alexa
                hide:
                  volume: true
                  power: true
                  controls: true

and when I enter text, my firestick responds with “Asking YouTube” and displays a “Simon says” prompt on the TV.

Any suggestions?

[ghstudio (douglas weiss)]

when I enter the captcha…I get the following message at the bottom of the screen:

“failed to call service configurator/configure expected string or bytes like object”

Note: I uninstalled V2…booted…reinstalled it…no change.

[Dixey]

Stupid question I’m sure but; does your Amazon login/password at Amazon still match what you have in your configuration.yaml?

(I have been guilty of inadvertently flipping my Google email account with my Amazon account)

[ghstudio (douglas weiss)]

I actually changed it in config.yaml to “abc”…and I did get a “wrong password” message when I restarted HA. Then I changed it back…no longer got that message, but never was able to get through the captcha sequence. For completeness, I am only trying to access one amazon account…tried it with two and had the same results, but I took out the 2nd one just to try to isolate the problem.

[wmaker (Tommy Long)]

I just upgraded to 2.0. Came right up. No issues

Also tried out Alexa on FirestickTV:
notify.alexa_media type=TTS works,
notify.alexa_media type=Announcements does not work (not sure if supported anyway),
media_player.play_media using TuneIn works,
FYI, Routines not yet supported.

[ghstudio (douglas weiss)]

I’ve isolated the problem…using advanced debug and viewing the amazon screens for each step.

1. when signing on to Amazon from my RPI, Amazon first has me enter my userid/pw,

2. then they ask me to verify a capcha…

3. AND THEN they present a screen saying they have to send me a verification code…where do I want it sent, to my phone or my email. Apparently Alexa_media doesn’t handle that…

4. I am supposed to enter that code somewhere (on the next captcha screen, I think?)…but I don’t have it, and I’m stuck. Amazon is waiting for the code that I never receive…

I am being asked for an additional security step, essentially 2 part authentication, even though 2 part isn’t set on that account.

Not sure why Amazon is asking, but Alexa_media needs to recognize that page and do something…either send it to phone, email or whatever.

I can sign on from all my other devices, but they are known devices to Amazon so I don’t get that extra challenge…

[Pirol62 (Jörg Nauen)]

That’s what I had as well. I got my Code to my Email Adress entered in Amazon. Then this Code had to be entered in a second captcha screen, right

[HelloFromEarth]

I have the same exact issue. After I click confirm. I get a blank box and it disappears.
How do I revert back? I used HACS.

@ghstudio

More on connection problems:

When I boot HA, I get a notification to sign on to amazon. When I click on it, a window opens and immediately closes…I open the notification again and I get a capcha that says

“To better protect your account, please re-enter your password and then enter the characters as they are shown in the image below”.

when I enter my pw followed immediately by the captcha I get an error; if I just enter the capcha, the window closes, but the notification is still there…I open it, enter the captcha again and get a message flashing about not finding a string or something like that.

This was working…I made no changes, but suddently I am in this condition where I can’t sign on to my account.

[Dixey]

Just enter the captcha without password. It may ask you to do it again, at least it did with me, but after doing that, all is quiet on the Western front.

[HelloFromEarth]

That’s the problem. When I click Configure, then confirm the box is blank and then disappears. I don’t see the Captcha.

[Dixey]

Check to see if a .pickle was created. If so, delete it, restart HA and try again.

[HelloFromEarth]

I don’t have a .pickle under …/homeassistant/.config.

[Dixey]

I’m running on HASS.OS so all my stuff is in the /config directory. I cannot confirm that you are looking in the proper place.

[HelloFromEarth]

I found the .pickle file (sudo find / -name *.pickle) in …/homeassistant/.homeassistant and rm it. However it did not help.

[HelloFromEarth]

After rebooting I was able to get the Captcha box. Thank you for your help!

[ghstudio (douglas weiss)]

More…its changed…now I’m getting a message about sending that missing code…but…

First time I click, no capcha, it just returns to notifications 1. Second time, I get a capcha…I enter it and it returns me to notifications 1. I click it again…now I get a window that says

Please select the verification method. (e.g., sms or email).
Option: sms = As a text message - +1******1716 . Option: email = In an email - d**[email protected] .

However when I enter sms or email or nothing…nothing happens…and I get that message at the bottom of the screen:

“failed to call service configurator/configure expected string or bytes like object”