There is obviously something, well, a lot of things, I don’t know about using the ‘media_player.plex_plex_for_alexa_alexa’ entity. I have added it to the custom:mini-media-player card but the card shows ‘unavailable.’ Now, if I start Plex playback on Alexa via voice command, the current track is shown along with the album art and a pulldown labeled an ‘Browse’ which does in fact allow browsing of the media server.
I thought that perhaps the Alexa Plex skill needed to be started somehow but simply calling up the Plex skill on Alexa without playing a track does not change the HA card indicated status.
I did see on my Plex server that HA issue "unable to connect to “Home Assistant” securely. Perhaps this is the problem? Obviously HA is able to connect to my Plex server given the ability to browse when Alexa Plex is actually playing. It also seems that the ‘unavailable’ status also appears when Plex is pulling up the next track, i.e. between tracks. Since my HA is not actually hosting a server, perhaps the connection error I see on my Plex server is irrelevant.
Hello davel4wa,
I don’t know for sure, but my bet is the custom Integration Alexa Media Player has more problems.