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

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

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

1 Like

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?

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

3 Likes

Thank you, this solved my problem.

1 Like

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

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?

1 Like