PSA: Alexa Media Player v4.13.3 breaks all versions of Home Assistant

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You seem to be on HACS 2.0 so in HA go to Developer Tools > Actions and then

action: update.install
data:
  version: v4.13.2
target:
  entity_id: update.alexa_media_player_update

then if you check the update.alexa_media_player_update entity it’ll show the installed version

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I think I’m good right?

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Reboot safe?

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Goto Hacs press the 3 dots icon. Redownload and select the other release. Download and restart

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Please can Home Assistant add a limit to prevent memory leaks or an addon using soo much RAM that it crashes.

I’ve found there is an option to limit RAM usage by add-on but it’s not implemented by default.

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Yeah think so…if you have AMP Integration disabled it’ll not impact HA anyway…

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Add-ons and Integrations are two different things…AMP is an Integration rather than an Add-on…
In your other thread where you mention Node Red that is an Add-on.

(but a good idea if it’s possible)

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Thanks a lot! this was wrecking my head all evening trying to figure out what was happening!

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I’m having the feeling that the add-on was causing problems also before 4.13.2. it wasn’t crashing HA but I had high CPU usage without any reason. I didn’t look for it and just restarted HA. Not sure if this is correct I will try.

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SO glad there is a post about this! I upgraded to 10.0 and got the memory leak errors! Fortunately I had a full backup less than a month old.

If I disable the update entity in the Alexa Media Player integration, it’ll stop bugging me for updates (for now) correct?

I hope this finds a new stable home. I use this one a LOT!

Very grateful for this community today!

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Thank you for this thread!

I’ve been pulling my hair out all day! :slight_smile:

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Thank you for this. I had updated Core yesterday and then saw the update tonight for Alexa Media player. As soon as I updated AMP, I got stuck in the boot loop. When I started searching for an answer, this thread popped up.
Fortunately, I was able to trigger a restore in-between reboots to when I updated the core yesterday, and all seems okay after reinstalling the Core update.

This time when AMP notified me of the update, I skipped it.

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Glad I found this… I still had AMP installed, even though it wasn’t in use. Uninstalled and all is good.

Of course, in the interim, I used this as an excuse to upgrade the HP 800 Mini G1 to a G5 version :smiley:

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now 4.13.3 has been removed as an update will HA stop blocking it, I mean I never updated to 4.13.3 and yet I got failed to setup and removed and try to re add but authing is in a loop now (enter user, then password then back it goes to user lol)… I litrally use alex just for actionable notifications and thats it.

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So… anyone got any idea on Alexa Media Player Alternatives?

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I reinstalled AMP 4.13.2
Is now running stable since I rolled back

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as FYI…looks like the plan to block AMP in HA has been reverted according to this PR now that AMP v4.13.3 has been pulled

@poudenes you asked about the block too so just FYI

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DOH!

Wish I’d seen this first. In debugging I removed AMP and now trying to reinstall it I can’t get past the Amazon.co.uk login screen. 2FA is good and matches, grrrrr

“Solution” :laughing:

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@Richi_Bowzer @chrisExh try this to solve the login screen issue.

All thanks go to @dbrunt who made a simple, step by step tutorial with pics!

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I had a look through that and yes it does look like a lot of work. I mainly use my Amazon Echos as announcement speakers in HA and have some quite complex scripts to collate all the information I need for a particular announcement then send it to an Echo in whichever room I am in.

I couldn’t see any way of doing that from this skill. I might just switch to local voice once I get my local voice assist set up. It’s the one advantage Google speakers have over Amazon.

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Amazon doesn’t seem to let you do that in routines. It’s also not designed to allow for dynamic content; it’s pretty much just for “fixed” stuff.

I can think of a kludge, but it’s a bit messy… have a virtual switch for each room/message you you would want, and have a different routine triggered from each switch. Then your complicated HA setup would decide which switch(es) need to be triggered. It doesn’t scale too well, but if you just have 5 rooms and 3 messages then 15 switches and 15 routines is managable…