[SOLVED] Cant get alexa media player to work. any help?

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hi all,

ok i know i am doing something silly here…

ive installed the alexa media player from HACS, I think i ave it set up correctly however all the echo devices that have added are grayed out and say unavailable. anyone know what i’ve done… ive been trying to install a few things from HACS and appear to hit a silly point on every one… last one was formatting to I checked that this time about 6 times… checked my codes and username… all should be correct… here is what i have…

like I said I installed it from HACS and included this in my configuration.yaml

# Alexa media player set up
alexa_media:
  accounts:
    - email: !secret amazon_user
      password: !secret amazon_password
      url: amazon.com

went to integrations and configured the alexa media player

i now have several entities marked media_player.various_echo_devices and my echos are showing up as

alexa
alexa1098×593 122 KB

bedroom tv is a firestick

i tried going through the services tab and calling them directly as shown on a DrZzzs you tube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h7MzCGr_c4

with the following
alexa%20service

nothing happend…

have i missed a step? how do I get them so I can use them? or is it working and i’m just being silly lol

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I’m guessing the problem isn’t with the add on so only other place is with a setting in the echo account, I’ve gone through it several times and can’t find anything…

Has anyone else had this problem?

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for anyone else who has the same problem, the solution I have found is this

# Alexa media player set up
alexa_media:
  accounts:
    - email: !secret amazon_user
      password: !secret amazon_password
      url: "amazon.co.uk"

as i am in the UK the URL has changed from amazon.com to “amazon.co.uk” also make sure that in the secrets file nothing is in " so the secrets should be something like this

amazon_user: [email protected]
amazon_password: your_password

now everything works just fine

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Thank you, this solved my problem.

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I configure this from GUI and I can see the entities but they are not available and the announcement and the volume doesn’t why?

Thanks

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Do you have the correct address for your amazon account? That was my problem… the documentation was for the US so the amazon account was .com, however as I am in the UK my account should have been .Co.uk

If you search amazon for shopping what address do you use?

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