Help needed with making Alexa speak without SSL

Third party integrations
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Is there a way to use Alexa for TTS (text to speech) without using SSL?

I still have a Vera hub running that can do some TTS via Sonos but as I’m phasing that out and building significant more interesting automations in HASS. I really would like to leverage TTS more.

p.s. I looked into the new flash briefings possibilities in HASS but as I’m using a UK Alexa in the Netherlands I somehow can’t get this to work. Not even sure this would resolve above question.

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Why can’t you use SSL?

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There are already so many dependencies for a stable working home automations setup that I prefer not to introduce extra ones where I don’t need to. If there is really no other way, I might (need to) go the SSL route.

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I think this is what you are looking for:

Personally, I haven’t run into any compatibility or stabillity issues running Let’s Encrypt and the other third party things like AppDaemon, Harmony-API, HADashboard, etc.

There have been issue with the new flash briefing though; it doesn’t seem to accept Let’s Encrypt certs. Not sure if that’s going to be fixed (or if it can) but there was a thread on it. Folks were using nginx to get around it but for me it wasn’t worth it.

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You say you haven’t run into problems running let’s encrypt and HASdashboard? Maybe you can help me I get error tring to connect to my duckdns.org behind let’s encrypt.
Errno::ECONNREFUSED - Connection refused - connect(2) for “XXXX.duck.dns.org” port 3030

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Is HASS running? On what port? Is XXXX.duck.dns.org spelled correctly (hint: XXXX.duck.dns.org is probably not the same as XXXX.duckdns.org)? Does it work internally? Externally (truly externally, eg from your phone not on wifi)? Have you port forwarded correctly?

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I have corrected the error I was getting. Apparently I put the port on the duck.dns.org when I shouldn’t have under the ha_config.rb. I am now trying to trace down another issue. I can toggle a switch on the hass. It shows the change on the dashboard. If I click on the dash board switch it changes color but hass does not change ant the hapush feed does not show the sent command.