I read it here:
About the platform i have alexa already set for my echo devices, but always get ‘failed a call to media_player/alexa_tts service’ or something similar…
They are using invalid configurations.
Ogh, you said “telling me it cannot use tts google platform.” before, that’s why I thought you had an incorrect card config.
Not sure, doesn’t look like anything has changed from reading the docs.
I don’t see why it wouldn’t work, and I can’t test it since I don’t have any echos.
Ok, so i hope someone else having an echo can test it and help me to solve this issue…
Posted in the custom alexa component thread, and seems like at least this guy/gal got it to work.
Found it !!!
I added to the code:
language: 'it'
If i disable it all is working !!
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Can you post your config for the card (using the format button </> )?
My experience with mini-media-player is this.
I have this configuration withe latest version also of Alexa Media player
- type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.echo
tts:
platform: alexa
group: true
icon: 'mdi:amazon-alexa'
icon_state: true
hide:
controls: true
- type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.mini
tts:
platform: google
language: it #not necessary
group: true
icon: 'mdi:google-home'
icon_state: true
hide:
controls: true
and it works.
language: it works only with Google TTS, but it’s not necessary. I get same language, italian, also if there isn’t this row.
One main difference is that with Alexa media player the volume slider is alway active and the Power ON/OFF button does nothing, while with Google media player, the volume slider is available only if I turn on the device with the Power ON/OFF button.
I don’t think Alexa as media player entities ever turn off, they instead go standby.
You can use the idle view feature to kinda simulate on/off. There are a few options available for the idle_view object, but I think when_standby should work with Alexa as media player, check the card docs for other available options.
idle_view:
when_standby: true
You could I guess also hide the power button if you want as there’s no on/off for the alexa component
From the source
def turn_off(self):
"""Turn the client off.
While Alexa's do not have on/off capability, we can use this as another
trigger to do updates. For turning off, we can clear media_details.
"""
...
def turn_on(self):
"""Turn the client on.
While Alexa's do not have on/off capability, we can use this as another
trigger to do updates.
"""
...
I’m having an unusual issue with the media player card - added it to my configuration yesterday and to begin with it was working fine, however today instead of seeing the cards I’m just seeing a bit of text that either says ‘off none’ ‘idle none’ or ‘playing none’ depending on the state of the player.
When I click on the text it writes to the log:
https://xxxxxxxxx.duckdns.org/local/mini-media-player-bundle.js:1:36259 TypeError: this.value.handleEvent is not a function. (In 'this.value.handleEvent(e)', 'this.value.handleEvent' is undefined)
My lovelace yaml seems pretty normal:
resources:
- url: /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js
type: js
…and where configured:
- type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.tv
artwork: cover
NB I promise indentation is all correct - I’m sending this from a work computer where proper formatting doesn’t want to work for some reason
The only change I’ve made is a global font change but I can’t see any reason why that would have scuppered things - I’ll try changing back to the previous font and see if it fixes it and report back
BTW media players are all google cast devices
I’d like to use the tts feature in my media player card.
This is my config and it works fine like this.
As I don’t need the tts feature everyday it would be nice to only see it when I click on the player. Is that possible?
the correct way is
resources:
- url: /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js
type: js
Sorry - again, at work PC, not able to copy and paste from configurator. Your correction is what I already have in yaml. Post edited to reflect this
EDIT: Haven’t got around to changing fonts yet, but tried adding ?v=0.01 to my url in the lovelace yaml - it briefly worked properly again, then I refreshed the home assistant app on iphone and lost it again. Odd
Yes, skip the cards tts and use the tts input in the default more info popup, which you get to by clicking/pressing on the entity.
That’s strange, try replacing type: js with type: module, this is obviously not a viable solution if you are dealing with older devices.
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When I press the entitiy the pop up window doen’t include a tts field.
No matter if a press the entity, the default card or your lovelace card.
I guess the player has to support TTS.
Otherwise, you could use popup-card and create your own popup.
That seems to have worked!
I also have the custom graph card installed, weirdly what seemed to happen before is when one was working, the other wouldn’t.
Both behaving correctly now! Many thanks!
It supports tts. It’s a alexa mediaplayer entitiy.
Awesome, my cards are really built as modules, so importing as type: js could cause unwanted side effects.
I’ve been experimenting with a new build process for the mini-graph-card, which seems to solve most of these issues.
Okay, I checked the frontend source, and the logic to show/hide the tts input is this.
return !ttsLoaded || !playerObj.supportsPlayMedia;
So the player has to support the play_media service (SUPPORT_PLAY_MEDIA ) in order for the tts input to show up. The custom Alexa as a media player component does not.
But as I mentioned, you could create your own popup with popup-card.
Thanks, ok I will create a popup-card, but should we maybe inform @alandtse about that. It might be easy for him to add this.