Notify.alexa_media_everywhere

I am trying to use the notify.alexa_media_everywhere in a couple of my automations. When these automations trigger the notification only comes through one of my alexa devices.

Can anyone help me sort this?

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If you ever get an answer to this, I’d be delighted to know. I have, under my actions, Notifications: Send a notification via alexa_media_everywhere. But it doesn’t seem to work. I’ve tried adding “tts” and method: speak, but nothing changes. Really, I don’t want to hardcode each speaker, because those will change over time. Maybe you need to setup a group “everywhere”, googling that didn’t lead me far. Good luck!

The everywhere group, like all Alexa Whole Home Audio groups, requires the use of announce as the type.

Thanks @Didgeridrew! Do you have a link to how to setup an “Alexa Whole Home Audio group”. Googling gets me looks of links, but scanning, and/or going into them suggests there not really about that topic, and others are unhelpful (like https://community.home-assistant.io/t/alexa-media-player-working-with-speaker-groups/494195? https://community.home-assistant.io/t/tts-speaker-group-jitter-stutter/586307). I did finally get my automation to work by listing each device as a key in target section of the script, but that’s a more brittle solution than a group, I think.

Amazon/Alexa is inconsistent with their nomenclature. Whole Home Audio Groups are also called Speaker Groups. Creating these groups has to be done in the Alexa app.

  • Open the Alexa app on your mobile device
  • Select the “Devices” menu
  • Find the “Groups” section
  • Scroll to the end and select “Combine Speakers”