Send an image to an Echo show?

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Hi all, I already have an automation that sends a photo of my front door camera when the bell is ringed to my telegram account. Is it possible to send the same screenshot to my echo show?

Thank you
Andrea

2

You can use alexa-media-player to set the background

New link: https://github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/wiki#set-echo-show-background

3

Thank you for your replay.
I followed your suggestion but I am having a weird problem.
while this works

entity_id: media_player.echo_cucina
media_content_id: "https://home-assistant.io/images/cast/splash.png"
media_content_type: image

If I use my own image it show only for a brief time a black screen with “ECHO” and a generic “image wallpaper” then returning on the default background

entity_id: media_player.echo_cucina
media_content_id: "https://mydnsaddress:8123/local/splash.png"
media_content_type: image

the image is reachable from the web and I normally send it trough telegram without problems
Any idea?

4

You can try hosting it publicly on port 443, or use a third party image hosting service.

5

Hi there, did you solve the Problem with Send the Image to Alexa is there anyone who can Help me? I Have the same Problem, I would like to Send a Snapshot of my Cam to my Echo Show 5. The first URL (https://home-assistant.io/images/cast/splash.png) works, with my own URL (https://mydnsaddress.duckdns.org/local/splash.png) I have the same Problem like claustro. For the App-Notification can I use the same Path, that works greate! Any idea?

6

Hi, which camera do you use?

7

Hi everyone, I have the same problem as claustro and knacki123. Do you know if there is a solution for the problem?

8

Ok a couple things I notice spending an entire day fiddling with getting this working on my Echo Show 2nd Gen 10.1".

I also was unable to get it to work serving the image with a local https webserver that for all other purposes was working perfectly fine. But I was able to get it to work (lousily) hosting images externally. When I say lousy, I mean that the Echo takes 30 seconds to start showing the new image. I want it to appear instantly (at least, as instantly as I can get Alexa to speak tts, which is just a few seconds).

In the Show there are settings to set the slideshow frequency, and I set it to 6 seconds (the fastest). I have disabled all of the available sources for sildeshow images.
It fades in and out the current image every 10 seconds or so. And when I use the alexa-media-player to set the background it goes through 2-3 10 second fades of the current background before showing the new one. Which is an eternity when you want to see who is at the door!

The request for the image comes locally from HA, it is not Amazon making a web request for it. So I am not sure why it is even necessary to have an SSL requirement on the image, that is something HA is requiring, not Amazon. And it is baffling why it refuses to pull images off of home based servers.

If anyone is able to get this to work in an instantaneous manner with their Show I would love to know!

9

Hi

Im just trying to do the same thing. I have a automation to snap picture when somebody rings and send it to echo show but the echo show blinks black, no image. The image is accessible via https , the link works in bworser. any idea what Im doing wrong?

   - service: media_player.play_media
      data:
        entity_id: media_player.echo_show
        media_content_id: "https://XYZ.duckdns.org/local/camerafront_person.jpg"
        media_content_type: "image/jpg"
10

Is the https image served from a machine in your home (the same network HA is on?). Because I could only get it to work having the image hosted outside of my home, even though I can load up the home based image just fine in a browser.

Still, you are going to be disappointed with the amount of time it takes the echo before it updates its image. If you can get it to be as fast as the text to speech works, let us know!

11

I was able to view the image on my echo show. My echo show only displays images with extension jpg not display file with extension png or jpeg. Unfortunately as mentioned by ronaldjeremy it is very slow

12

Hi!
My Echo Show 8 shows nothing. Either with external nor internal URLs. No png no jpg.
Any more success here from anybody?
Cheers - Michael

13

No luck on my side either. I tried it with an Echo Show 8 and an Echo Show 15, they don’t even react.
I can successfully show a picture on every Fire TV Stick, on my Smartphone and on my tablet (both Android) without a problem.
On the smartphone it even works without delay when I’m not at home.

The only thing I managed is a voice message on all Echo devices, saying that someone is at the door. Funny enough this message is triggered about 2 seconds before my normal door bell goes off.