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?
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?
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.