Echo Devices (Alexa) as Media Player - Testers Needed

Pirol62 · January 21, 2022, 3:46pm

I’m using built in 2FA. No issues with that anymore.

alandtse · January 21, 2022, 10:41pm

You have to ensure you’ve enabled Enable oauth-token app method. That has been the default for over a year now but if you installed before then and haven’t fully removed and reinstalled the integration, it will use the legacy login setting. Your logs should have a warning message if it’s the old method.

MarH · January 27, 2022, 8:11am

Steven_Rollason:

If you have the Fire TV linked to an Echo device in the Alexa app (using Settings > TV & Video > Fire TV) you can do something like this:
service: media_player.play_media
data:
  entity_id: media_player.that_echo_device
  media_content_id: show name of camera in picture in picture
  media_content_type: custom
The only issue I found is that that Echo device will say “OK” when it does it - but enabling Brief Mode on it may stop that.

Does anybody know how to turn off/on a fire TV? My echo is linked to the FireTV stick and if I say “Alexa, turn firetv on” Alexa will turn on the tv. With the service call it doesn’t work and to use media_content_type: skill I don’t find any skill id for the FireTV skill

photo64 · January 31, 2022, 1:33pm

Anyone else having issues with the Alexa Media Player integration? After months and months and months of working great It tells me I need to reconfigure but it tells me either my captcha or password is incorrect over and over which I know neither is. Do I need to do something else like delete the integration and re-add or maybe delete a file or something?

henry8866 · January 31, 2022, 1:56pm

I had same login error this morning.

terryhonn · January 31, 2022, 3:03pm

Same experience here. I ended up deleting the integration, removing the component from HACS, deleting the .pickle file in /config/.storage, restarting HA, adding the component in HACS, restarting HA, and adding the integration. After configuration, all is well again now.

wmaker · January 31, 2022, 3:15pm

Yes I am having similar problems. I use a password and 2FA with an authentication app. I can login fine to the alexa.amazon.com web site, but just can’t get Alexa Media Player’s reconfigure to work.

EDIT/UPDATE: Got it working, after trying a few more tries followed by a reboot or two of HA.

photo64 · January 31, 2022, 6:41pm

Thanks, this worked for me.

henry8866 · January 31, 2022, 9:31pm

reboot HA fixed for me. didn’t have to do anything else.

liminal · February 2, 2022, 4:11am

Hey all, is there a way to play a specific playlist by its play list code?

I’m trying to play a playlist called just chill, but it never works. Plays some god awful song, or some random playlist

This is for spotify

Pirol62 · February 2, 2022, 7:55am

I do it like this:

- service: media_player.play_media
              data:
                entity_id: media_player.fire_media_center
                media_content_id: 'shuffle my "your name" playlist on "your speaker or group"'
                media_content_type: custom

Works perfect.
amazon decides itself if spotify or amazon music has to be used.

dbrunt · February 4, 2022, 8:59am

I tried this service call:

service: media_player.media_play
data:
  media_content_id: 'shuffle my "Liked from Radio" playlist on "media_player.office"'
  media_content_type: custom
target:
  entity_id: media_player.office

and got this error:

Logger: homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection
Source: components/websocket_api/connection.py:141
Integration: Home Assistant WebSocket API (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 12:55:04 AM (4 occurrences)
Last logged: 12:55:22 AM

[281472926992848] Error handling message: extra keys not allowed @ data['media_content_id']. Got None extra keys not allowed @ data['media_content_type']. Got None

Holdestmade · February 4, 2022, 9:05am

I think you need to use the media_player.play_media service, not media_player.media_play

dbrunt · February 4, 2022, 9:21am

OMG, thanks! Just starting to learn media_player and did not know there were two similar services!

service: media_player.play_media
data:
  media_content_id: shuffle my "Liked from Radio" playlist on "media_player.office"
  media_content_type: custom
target:
  entity_id: media_player.office

executed but nothing happened…

Holdestmade · February 4, 2022, 9:40am

Try this, this works for me

service: media_player.play_media
data:
  media_content_id: 'shuffle my Liked from Radio playlist'
  media_content_type: custom
target:
  entity_id: media_player.office

dbrunt · February 4, 2022, 9:51am

Thanks but still just the sound of the aquarium pump here!
I’m using Alexa and have SiriusXM and Spotify linked to it. The “Liked from Radio” is a Spotify playlist

I also have Amazon Music…

Holdestmade · February 4, 2022, 9:59am

If you verbally say the phrase ‘shuffle my Liked from Radio playlist’ to your office alexa, does it work ?

Joerg · February 4, 2022, 10:34am

This works for me. Deep is an Amazon Music playlist and usually I would use AMAZON_MUSIC as media_content_type but custom works too.

service: media_player.play_media
data:
  entity_id: media_player.echo_office
  media_content_id: shuffle my playlist deep
  media_content_type: custom

dbrunt · February 4, 2022, 10:44am

She said “liked from radio from spotify” but no audio. I chose the play list in spotify and it started playing on my PC. Changed output to office and no sound so it’s not an HA issue…

lidans5 · February 4, 2022, 11:59am

can some one help with that: assuming I want to play:

how the syntx will look like, just pasting it doesn’t work for me