Error passing data from a template to a service

Third party integrations Node-RED
1

I am trying to pass data to the alexa_media notify service in Node Red using a template. I have tested the data that am sending in Developer Tools, Services and it works as intended:

target: Lounge Echo
message: “Testing testing 1 2 3”
data:
type: announce

When I try to convert it to a template format for a ‘get template’ node and pass it to a ‘call service’ node with domain notify and service alexa_media, I get an error: “Call-service API error. Error Message: required key not provided @ data[‘message’]”

This is the syntax that I have used for the template:

{
“data_template”:{
“target”: “Lounge Echo”,
“message”: “Testing testing 1 2 3”
“data”:
“type”: “announce”
}
}

I’m completely stumped as to what formatting I have got wrong that is preventing this from working, can someone help please?

Cheers

2

based on what you have in service call developer tools, your msg.payload should look like this in node-red

{
    "data": {
        "target": "Lounge Echo",
        "message": "Testing testing 1 2 3",
        "data": {
            "type": "announce"
        }
    }
}
3

That worked perfectly, thanks for your help.

I’ve still got so much to learn!