Trying to connect an Echo Dot 3Gen to hass.io

[missbella90 (Isabell Marx)]

Hey there,
I’m running hass.io in a vm ruiining in proxmox.
connected to it is a qualcom atheros bluetooth stick.
I’m trying to connect my echo dot 3 Gen to home assistant…
i paired it using terminal but connection doesnt work…
Every time i’m trying to connect it gives the error:
org.bluez.Error.NotAvailable

I’m trying to use my dot as local speaker to play audio or alerts or tts
but i just cant connect to it

[NathanCu (Nathan Curtis)]

Im not even sure Alexa can be a bluetooth speaker endpoint like that?

Preferred way to setup Alexa as a media player:
GitHub - custom-components/alexa_media_player: This is a custom component to allow control of Amazon Alexa devices in Home Assistant using the unofficial Alexa API.

You use it as described here:

TTS on Alexa?

This is all based my experience with the former and being in the US. I have no experience (yet…) with the latter. basically… you need to copy the alexa.py file from the github repo and place it in your custom_components/media_player directory. Then in your config you place the following: media_player: - platform: alexa email: !secret amazon_email password: !secret amazon_pass url: amazon.com when you restart you should be greeted with a new pop up for the configuration for the…

[anon63427907]

I can use any alexa device to stream audio from my phone over Bluetooth.

[missbella90 (Isabell Marx)]

yeah i got that integration installed and use that… but last time cause of the alexa outage nothing worked… i just want to take alexa off the cloud and use it as local speaker / mic to controll a local instance of something like almond
thats why i’m trying it that way