Thanks João. Really appreciate that! I will be doing a video showing how to do this, and another showing the extra features I talked about in this video. Cheers.
Amazing video! I like the way you explain things and escalate the difficulty from a beginner level to a really advanced one. The good thing you do and others don't is that you don't assume that the viewer knows anything. Also you keep everything to the point. I am binging your videos!!
Amazing video...very useful. Very clear explenation and now i can’t wait for the next video on script, scene and playing media and music. Mini media player is awesome!!
Hey Guys! Here’s an updated version of this video if you are following along in 2022! - I am rebooting this series and will have a few videos on each of the topics. th-cam.com/video/UsnhL2z_UUY/w-d-xo.html
Thanks to your concise way of teaching, I was able to do what I almost gave up on because people would say it cannot be done. I can now trigger my robot vacuum via home assistant, which is connected by a third party alexa skill to the amazon echo device. I connected my HA to my Alexa dev account and setup an alexa routine to turn on the vacuum. That routine is then triggered via a homeassistant script or automation just as you showed, with only a couple seconds delay. Perfect!! The mini player doesn't work for me yet, but I only use the wonderful HA spotify integration anyway to have additional context and control over what and where spotify is playing.
Hi mark, this is really the most helpful Tutorial concerning HA-TTS-Alexa that I could find. I have spent a lot of time to get my Alexa-notifications running, this vid helped me a lot for beeing finally successful. Subscribed!
Great video, I was looking for something like this for 4 hours, explanation was clear and even the suggestions to watch the other videos to follow up saved me some more headaches, thanks!
I've spent multiple days trying to get TTS to work and I just came across this video. Why I didn't find this before I'll never know but it covers everything I wanted plus more. I have now subscribed and going to make my way thru your other HA videos.
Using your tutorial, I was able to setup notifications around the house on event triggers. Ex: Person Detected on the Driveway I built out scripts, one for each echo. Then I built group scripts, that call the device specific scripts. The scripts take in a message parameter. They also contain device specific mute conditions. For example, if I'm on a work call, the office device script knows not to play the notification in my office. Hopefully that all makes sense. Anyway, thanks! I was only able to built it out because of your tutorial.
Switching from Vera over to Home Assistant isn't an easy task. I just want to thank you for this video. You went about it at a perfect pace and explained everything clearly, best video I've seen yet on Home Assistant. Thank you, I just became a subscriber.
You are the best of them all pal! Your instructions are very clear. You seem relaxed and there is no very silly jokes. Thank you for your hard work. You have helped me so many times now. I will try to help you get more popular by sending links to your videos to my friends. Great work.
Thanks for this dude! Now I can reliably do TTS notifications without relying on that questionable implementation that required me to reauthenticate my Amazon account every three days. THANK GOD! I also managed to get this working in Node-Red based on the information here; was just a matter of putting the blocks together. Once I saw how you did it in developer and call service, I knew what time it was lol. Thanks again! Going to look at your Actionable Notification video next to get her to ask for starting Flash Briefings.
super helpful, thank you very much! Nicely explained and I really like the speed. Don't wasting any time, getting right to the point. Amazing tutorial.
Thank you for the awesome tutorial, one of the best ones yet! I got all the way to the mini media player yaml and my TTS prompt isn’t showing up in the preview. Is there a prerequisite for the TTS prompt to show?
Great video! I just started using alexa for TTS in my automations a couple days ago and wish I would have found this video sooner :P The one additional thing I've done is target all of my alexas with the alexa notifications -- since I could be in any room. I originally set these up to go to my Google devices but strangely those seem far less reliable to start speaking.
Thank you so much! I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I couldn't see my echo's sensors. You answered my question right off - I didn't have 2 factor authentication turned on in my Amazon account. I really love the idea of using the mini media player to send messages but the line to enter text never shows up in my player. Might anyone be able to tell me what I need to add?
Hi mark. Installed Hacs, all went well. When I open "Add respositories", it shows me a long list of them, but "Alexa media Player" doesn't show up. Any idea why? Thanks in advanced.
Thank you for this amazing video/tutorial ! Really helped me ...I confess that I was struggling to make my Avexas talk via HA :-) ahggg that type: tts part ....Thank you ! Yes I really would like to see that video that you promised with more automations and echos :-) Greetings from Portugal !
Thx a lot mate, Great content and guide. Would like to see more in deep Mini Media Player configurations, for more than one speaker, integration with spotify, etz, .... in a future video. Till then, ... good job and thx.
I have a few more Alexa videos in the works :) There is a Part 2 of this one (covering the bits I mentioned plus a couple you just mentioned) Alexa Actionable Notifications And a new video dropping today on playing your own custom mp3s I will get round to them :D
Thanks for the feedback :) I would say yes :) Sometimes there is a small delay, and others it appears to be instant. It’s never been long enough for me to question or worry about it.
Congratulations for the video! I´m from Brazil, I followed all your Alexa steps and it worked very well! Thanks! Do you know if have any integrations to ir remote controller - of tuya? If have, could you teach in a video too?
Best video I've seen all year. Yes, very informative and a great tutorial. But now, my mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention. What can I do with this knowledge? Besides antagonize the dog, which was also fun. This is so great.
Thanks Michael. If you enjoyed this one you might like the other Alexa tutorials i have done :) I also started a reboot for my Alexa videos so lots more to come.
Hello! Thanks for this dude! I have problem. Failed to activate media player, two-step verification successful, getting confirmation for integration, but the player is no more than in the list of devices and is not among the objects. I don’t get that picture already as in your clip at 4:15 min.
What a wonderful video. I wish I had had access to it longer ago. I did all the steps and my Echos were available on devices but I can't use them because they appear unavailable. Any ideas on how to solve this problem?
Thanks! I've got this working fine when I switch the echo to English. Once I revert it back to my mother tongue Dutch, nothing is said by Alexa / echo. I guess the TTS isn't ready for other languages, maybe switching to a different TTS service might help?
Another great video Mark, so much detail packed into each video you put out 😎😎 I now have a mini switch set in an automation to turn on the office with Alexa playing my fav radio station from Tunein. Is it possible to toggle the alexa media player do you know? So, first single press turns everything on, another single press turns everything off? I can use the toggle for the light and the plug but don't know if this can be implemented on the alexa media player? Thanks again, Mac
Hey Mac! Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it 😁. Glad you find the content useful. You can pause and stop music yes :) theres an example in the documentation. You will need to use either pause or stop in the media player call in your script or automation. Cheers 😎
Thanks for the guide. Any idea if it is possible to create a button on a Home Assistant dashboard to play a radio station? For example would normally say "Alexa play BBC Radio 6 music", but replace this with a dashboard button? Ideally would like to have 1 button t start playing radio and one button to stop playing. Thanks!
Can't wait to scare the Kids on Halloween. We are planning to use lights and strobe lights along with something like a scary witch laugh tide to a motion sensor and speaker on the front porch. Lol
Thank you a lot for that setup. I made itr how discribed and it worked. I only had to add under Settings - Dashboard-Ressources the JavaScript-Modul /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js?v=1.16.5. My question now is, how is it possible to stream mp3 or other media i have stored on home assistant. For example I want to wake up with a special song (mp3), how can I do that? The automation part is clear, but I don't know what to write as media content type / id
You can use a skill called My Pod which allows Alexa to access your music. you can then use HA to trigger Alexa to call the service and your music. I have previously used it and it works but it is a bit of a setup. There’s not a simple way really to access your own music with Alexa and HA (as far as i know). You would need to store your music in a place accessible by my pod or use the my pod host. You can use HA to tell Alexa to trigger a set song or playlist using music services too.
Thank you Lewis! for the information, Great video! well done i have some media issues and CCTV that i don't know they don't work for me is it possible to get you to have look at for me please much appreciated
Hi, Thanks for this Mark. Having a bit of an issue after I've done the whole login with the 2 factor auth. The media player is showing on HA, however It didn't pick up any of my other echos like it did with yours strangely. I have normal echos, echos with screens and the Alexa's that you can plug straight into the wall. Any ideas why they aren't showing? I'm struggling to connect Alexa to the HA. Cheers
Great video! I'm trying to use Alexa more through HA but stumbles a bit. When my home is empty I want all wake up alarms in Alexa to be stopped before they go off in a empty house. I cna't find a command to send and how to send it. Can you point me in the right direction?
This is great! Do you know if it's possible to have the tts function work with Alexa on the phone? Trying to set up a fun automation for when my Tesla leaves my house and if my phone is automatically connected to bluetooth , a custom voice message can be heard from my car speakers
I don’t think you can target the alexa app with iOS (not sure about android). Some devices that run tvs work though (other speakers, tvs etc). Another option would be to use custom Sound Notifications. This would let you play pre written phrases (works on iOS) I recently did a video on this.
@@K3yBon It doesn’t work on the Echo Auto :( At least not yet anyway. The echo auto can still be useful though. Using it to run automations when your outside in the car, or approaching home etc.
Hi! any idea to use in more than 1 speaker at the same time? Im not able to use in more than one.. looks like when 1 speaker is waiting for the response.. There other are not connected. Thanks!
Thanks for the really helpful video. One thing: some of my Echos are not showing the 'Local Speaker' and won't accept tts. My Echo Dots and Echo Plus are fine, but my Echo Show and Fire Tablet are not. Thanks for any help.
@@MarkWattTech Thanks for the reply. No. Those 2 devices don't wotk using the Dev tools or the mini media player card. The Echo Show is working in an automation, but that is calling the notify service.
Great video. Do you have anymore content related to using Alexa to control a scene? I see my scenes available, but only the automations. I do not see the scripts within Alexa when creating a routine. I believe a lot of folks would find more Alexa related content beneficial. Cheers!
I have a few new Alexa Tutorials planned :) I’ve just moved house so will be setting up a new Smart Home and rebooting some of these older tutorials :)
Thanks for excellent video. However I do have a question. How do you play mp3 on multiple echo? I have already created a group everywhere in Alexa app. media_player.everywhere does not work
Mark just a quick one Your Kitchen Group is that done in Home assistant , how did you create a group please , I have 4 Alexa Echo`s was hoping to group them so I can send TTS to all t one please
AMP installed and configured successfully. Spotify installed and configured successfully. My Alexa Sonos One happily plays music/does TTS. All of my Amazon related Alexa devices (echos/shows/dots etc) appear correctly in the AMP, and can have their basic controls altered by HA (volume, on/off, pause/play) but none can play any form of media: 'Media player does not support browsing media' is the error message when I try. I'll straight up PayPal you £50 if you can fix it Mark!
Thank you for the article - Is there a way to integrate without the risk of disclosing all your Amazon Credentials? I definitely would like to get this working,
Unfortunately to get the TTS and media player Access you need to use your credentials. You can use the App Auth method so that you don’t need to submit 2FA codes and they will generate themselves. But you still initially need to login with your credentials.
Hi Mark, I picked a sound for alexa in her library, but that sound is too low. How can I increase the level of this sound? I'm using the notify option with TTS. Thanks
Hi Mark thanks for the video! I was using the Alexa integration that you mentioned on the video before and it was working fine. After installing duckdns I'm not able to get it running again. I'll get an Url error on the configuration process. Also, Im using Alexa Skill and I have my HA devices on Alexa now. Im not sure if this would do the same or is the other way around. Please any help would be appreciated
No worries. Thanks for checking in. I had to disable duck dns and go back to my local IP. Then I installed the Alexa integration and I when back to duckdns again. Everything is running smoothly now!!
Another great video Mark... I have this setup running, but is it possible to set the volume of the echo before it does the TTS? Sometimes we might have the echo up at max (10) to play music and then we stop the music, but only want the announcement to at volume 5. I tried adding something like "volume_level: 5" but nothing changes.
Thanks again Lyron. You can set the volume yeah :) I dont remember the syntax of the top of my head but it will be in the documentation. Alternatively check out my facebook group as Im sure this was a question the other week and the answer will be on the post :)
What a great tutorial video! So well explained... Its hard to missunderstanding things with you. Thanks a lot!! I found that some entities are unavailable: (sensor.alexa_xx_next_alarm, next_timer, switch.alexa_xx_repeat, shuffle and input_text.alexa_actionable_notification). I thought that I was missing something but I realized that yours are the same (at 6:50 on your video). Not a big deal because everything work fine! But just a few questions about that. Do you know what this entities are for? And.. hmm can we get rid of this entities without any Effects? Today I'm gonna check your third video about Alexa (actionnable notification).. So excited to add this features!! Again (and not enough) Thanks dude for your amazing popularized video!
For anyone getting server 500 errors when trying to login this is probably because of a bug in Alexa Media Player (bug #1440) fixed in a later version (v3.10.13 or 14 I think) but this version requires the 2021.12 version of HA. So you need to first update HA, then Alexa Media Player. Also clearing my browser cache fixed the custom element not found error for me.
Hi..i hope you could help me with this question..i managed to let alexa show me a live feed from my eufy doorbell camera on my echo show 8..my question is can Alexa pull a picture of the live feed instead of the feed it self? I only want a picture not a video (im doing this with the Alexa app on my iphone not with the assistant )
Thank you, good tutorial. I am used to the voice command example -"alexa play fuji radio". Is there a way to put that in the yaml ?...so i can have it in the automation sequence?
Thank you :) do you mean to have the echo run the routine “play fuji radio” ? :) If so then yes. You can have the echo call a service, or if you have a routine in your alexa app you can just get HA to call that.
@@MarkWattTech i have tried the routine, in the alexa app and that pused the radio play at the end of other action. example if i want to turn on the radio and then turn on a fan...it pushed the radio acion after the device automation. SO i am tryign to find a way to automate the sequence in HASS automation...but no idea how to trigger the voice command to play a radio station.
Hi Mark, great vid for a HA newbie like me. Worked fine, Alexa has been integrated and Mini Media player has been installed. But with the card, I can only send TTS to my Alexas. The Mini Media Player card does not show any music or Album covers etc that is played on any of my Alexas. In your vid, this was not quite clear how to get this done. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
Heya :) If you open the card in the editor you should see an option for 'artwork', In my setup I have this set as full-cover which presents your album art.
Very interesting video! Good Jobs Can we on the other hand during TTS message Adjust volume I tested with: type: tts volume_level: 0.7 does not work :(
Thanks for the video. I have one quesiton. Is it possible to reproduce mp3 located in local media or dlna server of home assistant through alexa echo? In other words, i want to be able to choose what alexa echo is going to play the local music in home assistant that i am listening in my pc for instance.
I did a video on how to play custom MP3s. But if its a set track etc I would reccomend checking out something like MyPod or other bits of software. This will allow you to host files on your PC and have Alexa play them. You can then use HA to trigger the track etc via a script or automation. Theres currently not a super clean way to do it :S (That im aware of anyway)
Mark, I have added the Alexa Media Player to Lovelace using the mini media player card. It is not showing what is currently playing when I have Alexa playing music. Is there a setting I need to add for this? If not, any ideas what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Mike
Hey Mike. Do you have the line "artwork: full-cover" In your media player card yaml? There is a code snippet in the description which may help (if you didn't allready try it).
You can get Alexa to do that by just enabling amazon in the HA cloud section. This integration allows you to control various aspects of the echos media player and more.
Hello, how do you adjust a set volume on the echo device when you using the call service/codes? You example only show send the text to speech. How do you turn up the set volume also because some of my echo setting volume is too low to hear?
Heya. You will find a bunch of different examples in the documentation at : github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/wiki#setting-the-volume-for-the-last-called-device-at-a-certain-level
Hello, my name is hawana...I followed the instructions thru installation and I can see Alexa Media Player in the HACS list of configuration. However, after restarting Home Assistant, going to the Configuration tab and hitting + button, Alexa does not appear in that list...Can you shed some light on the problem I'm seeing ? (PS: HACS version 1.15.2, and Alexa Media Player version v3.10.10)...Your guidance is much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Is there a way to link the shopping lists between home assistant and the Alexa app so you can use Alexa to add stuff to the shopping list on home assistant
Great video, but im getting an error after I verify the account and loading back to the next step. im trying to figure out how to clean the cookies hopefully that works.. I'm new to HASS
Hey Pablo. I have started working on it! I have an Alexa video dropping tomorrow, and the Alexa one after tomorrows will be on actionable Notifications (maybe next week)
@@MarkWattTech thanks a lot. Another question. When you say to expose the script to alexa, you do the nabu casa integration, right? the other method would be the custom skill to integrate HA to Alexa, I imagine? thanks again.
@@blopak2 I do yeah. So you can expose a script via nabu casa. Alexa see the scripts as a scene. You can then ask alexa to run that scene, which in turn launches the script in HA. The other way to do it would be to create a custom skill yes. The actionable notification will use a simple custom skill.
Mark I have one doubt that I already search in your Facebook and here but could not figure out an answer.... How can I set the sound to a certain volume on a. certain sound or text / message ?
Hello mark, I’m struggling. I’ve got as far as the configuration page with Amazon login details. I notice your url ending with :8123 is for your local but mine is pre-filled with nabu casa external link. When I submit I get 500 internal server error. I tried typing the IP address for my local HA pi and I get the same error. Am I being really thick? Probably yes!
Thank you for the video! I installed Alexa Media Player in HACS.. Restarted and went to CONFIGUIRATION/INTEGRATIONS. Alexa media player does not show up at all although it show's up under HACS. Can you please help? Thank you!
Unfortunately when I try this after I get taken to the external website and add my amazon login and complete the captcha I get taken to a page saying "500 Internal Server Error" I've looked this up and there are a lot of people with the same error but the solution seems inconsistent between them. Any ideas?
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Mark, youre tutorials are the best I found on TH-cam. Many thanks . It would be great if you do a video to add Alexa to HA. Regards from Portugal
Thanks João. Really appreciate that! I will be doing a video showing how to do this, and another showing the extra features I talked about in this video. Cheers.
Amazing video! I like the way you explain things and escalate the difficulty from a beginner level to a really advanced one. The good thing you do and others don't is that you don't assume that the viewer knows anything. Also you keep everything to the point. I am binging your videos!!
it does not mention the most important thing, the system he's using is home assistant cloud or standalone?
It works on HA standalone also. Been using it for a while now.
Really well done video, thorough with solid examples and interesting tidbits. Thanks for the work you do on these!
Thank you 🙏🏻😁
Amazing video...very useful. Very clear explenation and now i can’t wait for the next video on script, scene and playing media and music. Mini media player is awesome!!
Cheers Luca :) appreciate the feedback.
@@MarkWattTech i’m just trying in these days to activate scripts on Alexa and google home...and this guide arrive just in time 😄
Hey Guys! Here’s an updated version of this video if you are following along in 2022! - I am rebooting this series and will have a few videos on each of the topics.
th-cam.com/video/UsnhL2z_UUY/w-d-xo.html
Thanks to your concise way of teaching, I was able to do what I almost gave up on because people would say it cannot be done. I can now trigger my robot vacuum via home assistant, which is connected by a third party alexa skill to the amazon echo device. I connected my HA to my Alexa dev account and setup an alexa routine to turn on the vacuum. That routine is then triggered via a homeassistant script or automation just as you showed, with only a couple seconds delay. Perfect!! The mini player doesn't work for me yet, but I only use the wonderful HA spotify integration anyway to have additional context and control over what and where spotify is playing.
Hi mark, this is really the most helpful Tutorial concerning HA-TTS-Alexa that I could find. I have spent a lot of time to get my Alexa-notifications running, this vid helped me a lot for beeing finally successful. Subscribed!
Glad you found it helpful 😁. Thank you for the feedback
Great video, I was looking for something like this for 4 hours, explanation was clear and even the suggestions to watch the other videos to follow up saved me some more headaches, thanks!
Bro .. Iv been trying to do this for a long time .. your video is the only video that helped me get it working .. thanks 🙏🏾
Glad to help :D I have a follow up to this video soon covering some extra bits I mentioned in this video.
@@MarkWattTech
Bro trust me .. you are the man 👊🏾👊🏾
Thanks Mark, these are really awesome tuts. Ive had HA for about 3 months now, so integrating my Echo's (x4) into HA is really cool!
I've spent multiple days trying to get TTS to work and I just came across this video. Why I didn't find this before I'll never know but it covers everything I wanted plus more. I have now subscribed and going to make my way thru your other HA videos.
Glad you found it useful :)
I have a new Alexa video dropping tomorrow!
Using your tutorial, I was able to setup notifications around the house on event triggers. Ex: Person Detected on the Driveway
I built out scripts, one for each echo. Then I built group scripts, that call the device specific scripts. The scripts take in a message parameter. They also contain device specific mute conditions. For example, if I'm on a work call, the office device script knows not to play the notification in my office.
Hopefully that all makes sense. Anyway, thanks! I was only able to built it out because of your tutorial.
Switching from Vera over to Home Assistant isn't an easy task. I just want to thank you for this video. You went about it at a perfect pace and explained everything clearly, best video I've seen yet on Home Assistant. Thank you, I just became a subscriber.
Glad you found it helpful :)
You are the best of them all pal! Your instructions are very clear. You seem relaxed and there is no very silly jokes. Thank you for your hard work. You have helped me so many times now. I will try to help you get more popular by sending links to your videos to my friends. Great work.
Appreciate that, thank you for the feedback 🙂
Thanks for this dude! Now I can reliably do TTS notifications without relying on that questionable implementation that required me to reauthenticate my Amazon account every three days. THANK GOD! I also managed to get this working in Node-Red based on the information here; was just a matter of putting the blocks together. Once I saw how you did it in developer and call service, I knew what time it was lol.
Thanks again! Going to look at your Actionable Notification video next to get her to ask for starting Flash Briefings.
Nice one mate! Thank you for sharing :)
I needed to install and re-install the mini media player . Thanks for this video.
Another great video Mark, will be using some of these tips in my automations !!
Thanks Paul :)
The TTS is great in combo with automations.
Things like announcing your door has been left open, washing machine is finished etc.
Great tutorial. Finally got my Alexa echos working in Home Assistant. Thank you
Happy to have helped!
super helpful, thank you very much! Nicely explained and I really like the speed. Don't wasting any time, getting right to the point. Amazing tutorial.
Thank you for the feedback :)
I have been trying to get alexa to announce that I am almost home forever finally got it to work with your help😀
Thank you for the awesome tutorial, one of the best ones yet! I got all the way to the mini media player yaml and my TTS prompt isn’t showing up in the preview. Is there a prerequisite for the TTS prompt to show?
ya mine is not showing up either
Great video! I just started using alexa for TTS in my automations a couple days ago and wish I would have found this video sooner :P The one additional thing I've done is target all of my alexas with the alexa notifications -- since I could be in any room. I originally set these up to go to my Google devices but strangely those seem far less reliable to start speaking.
Please, keep going !! (regards from Italy)
Finally I got what I needed for my smart home, thanks to You !
Awesome thanks Jacopo. Plenty more to come :D
Dude, this is an amazing tut, please carry on with the future vidz you have planned. Fantastic work
Thanks for the feedback Jason! Really appreciate it :D
I know it's pretty randomly asking but do anyone know a good website to stream newly released movies online ?
@Alexis Jorge I use Flixzone. You can find it by googling :)
@Brodie Gus Yup, have been using flixzone for months myself :)
@Brodie Gus thanks, signed up and it seems like a nice service :) I really appreciate it!!
Thank you so much! I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I couldn't see my echo's sensors. You answered my question right off - I didn't have 2 factor authentication turned on in my Amazon account.
I really love the idea of using the mini media player to send messages but the line to enter text never shows up in my player. Might anyone be able to tell me what I need to add?
Great Video. Exactly what I was looking for to dip my toe into Alexa and HA integration.
Hi thank you for all !!! But i have a question! Can we get alexa to speak on all speakers at the same time? thank for your reply!!
Hi mark. Installed Hacs, all went well. When I open "Add respositories", it shows me a long list of them, but "Alexa media Player" doesn't show up. Any idea why? Thanks in advanced.
Same here??? Why isn't showing up in the repository ?
Thank you for this amazing video/tutorial ! Really helped me ...I confess that I was struggling to make my Avexas talk via HA :-) ahggg that type: tts part ....Thank you ! Yes I really would like to see that video that you promised with more automations and echos :-) Greetings from Portugal !
Great job! Thank You! It helped me a lot! Greetings from Brazil! Araçatuba/SP
Thx a lot mate,
Great content and guide.
Would like to see more in deep Mini Media Player configurations, for more than one speaker, integration with spotify, etz, .... in a future video.
Till then, ... good job and thx.
I have a few more Alexa videos in the works :)
There is a Part 2 of this one (covering the bits I mentioned plus a couple you just mentioned)
Alexa Actionable Notifications
And a new video dropping today on playing your own custom mp3s
I will get round to them :D
thank you so much, really clear and helpful! A question: is it normal that alexa starts speaking after at least 3 seconds?
Thanks for the feedback :)
I would say yes :)
Sometimes there is a small delay, and others it appears to be instant. It’s never been long enough for me to question or worry about it.
great video, thank you. Please keep in mind that after installing mini-player you might need to reset the whole HA again. :)
hi mark, when i try that yaml config with mini media player only get this message ---> Custom element not found: mini-media-player .....can u help me?
i made a restart and now it works ;))
You are the best! You have a new fan here!
Thank you 🙏🏻 😄
Congratulations for the video! I´m from Brazil, I followed all your Alexa steps and it worked very well! Thanks! Do you know if have any integrations to ir remote controller - of tuya? If have, could you teach in a video too?
Thanks Marcelo. I currently don't have any tuya IR devices to play around with or test, so not sure on that one sorry.
Best video I've seen all year. Yes, very informative and a great tutorial. But now, my mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention. What can I do with this knowledge? Besides antagonize the dog, which was also fun. This is so great.
Thanks Michael. If you enjoyed this one you might like the other Alexa tutorials i have done :)
I also started a reboot for my Alexa videos so lots more to come.
Very nicely done.
I had to remove "tts' in data otherwise it would not work.
Oh Chris my hero!
I missed the text input field in the player, now I know why! The lines with the TTS were missing from me! :-)
Thanks for the helpful Video! Wow, you own an La marzocco :-) Nice!!
Nice video, waiting for the next one!
Thanks Jose! :D
Liked you're videos all the times:D Can u please make a video with "Alexa Acctionable Notification" ? Thx
I will be doing the actionable notifications soon 😁👍🏻
Hello! Thanks for this dude! I have problem. Failed to activate media player, two-step verification successful, getting confirmation for integration, but the player is no more than in the list of devices and is not among the objects. I don’t get that picture already as in your clip at 4:15 min.
What a wonderful video. I wish I had had access to it longer ago. I did all the steps and my Echos were available on devices but I can't use them because they appear unavailable. Any ideas on how to solve this problem?
waiting future video :). nice tut
Thanks! I've got this working fine when I switch the echo to English. Once I revert it back to my mother tongue Dutch, nothing is said by Alexa / echo. I guess the TTS isn't ready for other languages, maybe switching to a different TTS service might help?
Great video!
Great video. I have a big objection to 2F auth and have it turned off on everything possible. Will it work without 2F auth on Alexa ??
Another great video Mark, so much detail packed into each video you put out 😎😎
I now have a mini switch set in an automation to turn on the office with Alexa playing my fav radio station from Tunein.
Is it possible to toggle the alexa media player do you know? So, first single press turns everything on, another single press turns everything off?
I can use the toggle for the light and the plug but don't know if this can be implemented on the alexa media player?
Thanks again,
Mac
Hey Mac! Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it 😁. Glad you find the content useful.
You can pause and stop music yes :) theres an example in the documentation. You will need to use either pause or stop in the media player call in your script or automation.
Cheers 😎
Thanks for the guide. Any idea if it is possible to create a button on a Home Assistant dashboard to play a radio station? For example would normally say "Alexa play BBC Radio 6 music", but replace this with a dashboard button? Ideally would like to have 1 button t start playing radio and one button to stop playing. Thanks!
Can't wait to scare the Kids on Halloween. We are planning to use lights and strobe lights along with something like a scary witch laugh tide to a motion sensor and speaker on the front porch. Lol
I did something similar with adding door creaking sound effects 😂
Thank you a lot for that setup. I made itr how discribed and it worked. I only had to add under Settings - Dashboard-Ressources the JavaScript-Modul /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js?v=1.16.5.
My question now is, how is it possible to stream mp3 or other media i have stored on home assistant. For example I want to wake up with a special song (mp3), how can I do that? The automation part is clear, but I don't know what to write as media content type / id
Great Tutorial! Thanks
Thanks Dennis :)
Another great video , Thank you so much
You can use a skill called My Pod which allows Alexa to access your music. you can then use HA to trigger Alexa to call the service and your music. I have previously used it and it works but it is a bit of a setup. There’s not a simple way really to access your own music with Alexa and HA (as far as i know). You would need to store your music in a place accessible by my pod or use the my pod host.
You can use HA to tell Alexa to trigger a set song or playlist using music services too.
Thank you Lewis! for the information, Great video! well done i have some media issues and CCTV that i don't know they don't work for me is it possible to get you to have look at for me please much appreciated
Hi, Thanks for this Mark. Having a bit of an issue after I've done the whole login with the 2 factor auth. The media player is showing on HA, however It didn't pick up any of my other echos like it did with yours strangely. I have normal echos, echos with screens and the Alexa's that you can plug straight into the wall. Any ideas why they aren't showing? I'm struggling to connect Alexa to the HA. Cheers
Great video! I'm trying to use Alexa more through HA but stumbles a bit. When my home is empty I want all wake up alarms in Alexa to be stopped before they go off in a empty house. I cna't find a command to send and how to send it. Can you point me in the right direction?
hey, thx for this Video. I have a Question. Can i Search on the Media Player Card for Music?
This is great! Do you know if it's possible to have the tts function work with Alexa on the phone? Trying to set up a fun automation for when my Tesla leaves my house and if my phone is automatically connected to bluetooth , a custom voice message can be heard from my car speakers
I don’t think you can target the alexa app with iOS (not sure about android). Some devices that run tvs work though (other speakers, tvs etc).
Another option would be to use custom Sound Notifications. This would let you play pre written phrases (works on iOS) I recently did a video on this.
@@MarkWattTech do you know if it works on android? i'm actually watching your push notification sounds now haha
@@MarkWattTech What about using the Echo Auto? There's a sale on Prime Day and I'm debating on grabbing it
@@K3yBon It doesn’t work on the Echo Auto :(
At least not yet anyway. The echo auto can still be useful though. Using it to run automations when your outside in the car, or approaching home etc.
Hi! any idea to use in more than 1 speaker at the same time? Im not able to use in more than one.. looks like when 1 speaker is waiting for the response.. There other are not connected. Thanks!
Thanks for the really helpful video.
One thing: some of my Echos are not showing the 'Local Speaker' and won't accept tts. My Echo Dots and Echo Plus are fine, but my Echo Show and Fire Tablet are not.
Thanks for any help.
Hey Marc. Is TTS working for those devices if you manually target them with Dev tools ?
@@MarkWattTech Thanks for the reply. No. Those 2 devices don't wotk using the Dev tools or the mini media player card. The Echo Show is working in an automation, but that is calling the notify service.
@@MarkWattTech Yes, using the notification service.
Great video, many thanks!!
Thank you 😁
Great video. Do you have anymore content related to using Alexa to control a scene? I see my scenes available, but only the automations. I do not see the scripts within Alexa when creating a routine. I believe a lot of folks would find more Alexa related content beneficial. Cheers!
I have a few new Alexa Tutorials planned :)
I’ve just moved house so will be setting up a new Smart Home and rebooting some of these older tutorials :)
Thanks for excellent video. However I do have a question. How do you play mp3 on multiple echo? I have already created a group everywhere in Alexa app. media_player.everywhere does not work
Mark just a quick one Your Kitchen Group is that done in Home assistant , how did you create a group please , I have 4 Alexa Echo`s was hoping to group them so I can send TTS to all t one please
I struggled with this integration for almost a week and this video help me resolve the issue, thanks!
Still referring to this video, especially from last month fiasco of the Alexa integration. It needs an update to the OTP login loop
AMP installed and configured successfully. Spotify installed and configured successfully. My Alexa Sonos One happily plays music/does TTS. All of my Amazon related Alexa devices (echos/shows/dots etc) appear correctly in the AMP, and can have their basic controls altered by HA (volume, on/off, pause/play) but none can play any form of media: 'Media player does not support browsing media' is the error message when I try. I'll straight up PayPal you £50 if you can fix it Mark!
Thank you for the article - Is there a way to integrate without the risk of disclosing all your Amazon Credentials? I definitely would like to get this working,
Unfortunately to get the TTS and media player Access you need to use your credentials. You can use the App Auth method so that you don’t need to submit 2FA codes and they will generate themselves. But you still initially need to login with your credentials.
Hi Mark, I picked a sound for alexa in her library, but that sound is too low. How can I increase the level of this sound? I'm using the notify option with TTS. Thanks
Hi Mark thanks for the video! I was using the Alexa integration that you mentioned on the video before and it was working fine. After installing duckdns I'm not able to get it running again. I'll get an Url error on the configuration process. Also, Im using Alexa Skill and I have my HA devices on Alexa now. Im not sure if this would do the same or is the other way around. Please any help would be appreciated
Sorry for the delay. Have you managed to resolve your issue now?
No worries. Thanks for checking in. I had to disable duck dns and go back to my local IP. Then I installed the Alexa integration and I when back to duckdns again. Everything is running smoothly now!!
@@WebHorizonPro glad you got it sorted in the end 😁👍🏻
Another great video Mark... I have this setup running, but is it possible to set the volume of the echo before it does the TTS? Sometimes we might have the echo up at max (10) to play music and then we stop the music, but only want the announcement to at volume 5. I tried adding something like "volume_level: 5" but nothing changes.
Thanks again Lyron. You can set the volume yeah :) I dont remember the syntax of the top of my head but it will be in the documentation. Alternatively check out my facebook group as Im sure this was a question the other week and the answer will be on the post :)
@@MarkWattTech I am having the same doubt...and searched in your Facebook but could not find...can you help ?
What a great tutorial video!
So well explained... Its hard to missunderstanding things with you.
Thanks a lot!!
I found that some entities are unavailable: (sensor.alexa_xx_next_alarm, next_timer, switch.alexa_xx_repeat, shuffle and input_text.alexa_actionable_notification).
I thought that I was missing something but I realized that yours are the same (at 6:50 on your video).
Not a big deal because everything work fine! But just a few questions about that.
Do you know what this entities are for? And.. hmm can we get rid of this entities without any Effects?
Today I'm gonna check your third video about Alexa (actionnable notification)..
So excited to add this features!!
Again (and not enough) Thanks dude for your amazing popularized video!
For anyone getting server 500 errors when trying to login this is probably because of a bug in Alexa Media Player (bug #1440) fixed in a later version (v3.10.13 or 14 I think) but this version requires the 2021.12 version of HA. So you need to first update HA, then Alexa Media Player. Also clearing my browser cache fixed the custom element not found error for me.
Thank You! Thank You!! Thank You!!!
Hi..i hope you could help me with this question..i managed to let alexa show me a live feed from my eufy doorbell camera on my echo show 8..my question is can Alexa pull a picture of the live feed instead of the feed it self? I only want a picture not a video (im doing this with the Alexa app on my iphone not with the assistant )
amazing video, thank you bro!
Got a few more Alexa videos to come :D
Hi, can I use my android phone as Eco Dot? I have tried but I can not use text to speech... nothing heard
Thank you, good tutorial. I am used to the voice command example -"alexa play fuji radio". Is there a way to put that in the yaml ?...so i can have it in the automation sequence?
Thank you :) do you mean to have the echo run the routine “play fuji radio” ? :)
If so then yes. You can have the echo call a service, or if you have a routine in your alexa app you can just get HA to call that.
@@MarkWattTech i have tried the routine, in the alexa app and that pused the radio play at the end of other action. example if i want to turn on the radio and then turn on a fan...it pushed the radio acion after the device automation. SO i am tryign to find a way to automate the sequence in HASS automation...but no idea how to trigger the voice command to play a radio station.
Hi Mark, great vid for a HA newbie like me. Worked fine, Alexa has been integrated and Mini Media player has been installed. But with the card, I can only send TTS to my Alexas. The Mini Media Player card does not show any music or Album covers etc that is played on any of my Alexas. In your vid, this was not quite clear how to get this done. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
Heya :)
If you open the card in the editor you should see an option for 'artwork', In my setup I have this set as full-cover which presents your album art.
Very interesting video! Good Jobs
Can we on the other hand during TTS message
Adjust volume
I tested with:
type: tts
volume_level: 0.7
does not work :(
Thanks for the video. I have one quesiton. Is it possible to reproduce mp3 located in local media or dlna server of home assistant through alexa echo? In other words, i want to be able to choose what alexa echo is going to play the local music in home assistant that i am listening in my pc for instance.
I did a video on how to play custom MP3s. But if its a set track etc I would reccomend checking out something like MyPod or other bits of software. This will allow you to host files on your PC and have Alexa play them. You can then use HA to trigger the track etc via a script or automation. Theres currently not a super clean way to do it :S (That im aware of anyway)
Working on the TTS. It works for all the Ecos, but not for the everywhere one. Is this right?
This specific TTS is echo devices only (if thats what you mean). Also fire tablets and tvs work too
Mark, I have added the Alexa Media Player to Lovelace using the mini media player card. It is not showing what is currently playing when I have Alexa playing music. Is there a setting I need to add for this? If not, any ideas what I am doing wrong?
Thanks,
Mike
Hey Mike.
Do you have the line "artwork: full-cover"
In your media player card yaml? There is a code snippet in the description which may help (if you didn't allready try it).
Mark, with this integration, if you speak to Alexa, saying to turn on a bulb that you have on HA, it will turn it on ?
You can get Alexa to do that by just enabling amazon in the HA cloud section. This integration allows you to control various aspects of the echos media player and more.
thank you
Hello, how do you adjust a set volume on the echo device when you using the call service/codes? You example only show send the text to speech. How do you turn up the set volume also because some of my echo setting volume is too low to hear?
Heya. You will find a bunch of different examples in the documentation at : github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/wiki#setting-the-volume-for-the-last-called-device-at-a-certain-level
500 Internal Server Error
Server got itself in trouble
Hello, my name is hawana...I followed the instructions thru installation and I can see Alexa Media Player in the HACS list of configuration. However, after restarting Home Assistant, going to the Configuration tab and hitting + button, Alexa does not appear in that list...Can you shed some light on the problem I'm seeing ? (PS: HACS version 1.15.2, and Alexa Media Player version v3.10.10)...Your guidance is much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Is there a way to link the shopping lists between home assistant and the Alexa app so you can use Alexa to add stuff to the shopping list on home assistant
I don’t think there currently is a super simple easy way. Not one that i’ve seen anyway. But it’s something I would also love!
Great video, but im getting an error after I verify the account and loading back to the next step. im trying to figure out how to clean the cookies hopefully that works.. I'm new to HASS
I got it working 🎉🎉
Great Video tutorial
Hi Mark. Thanks for the video. Please do the Alexa Actionable Notifications!. Regards from chile
Hey Pablo. I have started working on it! I have an Alexa video dropping tomorrow, and the Alexa one after tomorrows will be on actionable Notifications (maybe next week)
@@MarkWattTech thanks a lot. Another question. When you say to expose the script to alexa, you do the nabu casa integration, right? the other method would be the custom skill to integrate HA to Alexa, I imagine? thanks again.
@@blopak2 I do yeah. So you can expose a script via nabu casa. Alexa see the scripts as a scene. You can then ask alexa to run that scene, which in turn launches the script in HA.
The other way to do it would be to create a custom skill yes.
The actionable notification will use a simple custom skill.
I didn't have any issue with you saying "Alexer". :-p
I had envisioned lots of Alexa’s back chatting 😂
THANKS!!!!!!!!!
great great videolike allways
Thank you Beni!
Mark I have one doubt that I already search in your Facebook and here but could not figure out an answer.... How can I set the sound to a certain volume on a. certain sound or text / message ?
Hello mark, I’m struggling. I’ve got as far as the configuration page with Amazon login details. I notice your url ending with :8123 is for your local but mine is pre-filled with nabu casa external link. When I submit I get 500 internal server error. I tried typing the IP address for my local HA pi and I get the same error. Am I being really thick? Probably yes!
Thank you for the video! I installed Alexa Media Player in HACS.. Restarted and went to CONFIGUIRATION/INTEGRATIONS. Alexa media player does not show up at all although it show's up under HACS. Can you please help? Thank you!
Hey! You will need to reload your browser cache to make the file appear in your integrations if it hasn't automatically.
@@MarkWattTech That worked like a charm!!! Thank you very much sir!
Unfortunately when I try this after I get taken to the external website and add my amazon login and complete the captcha I get taken to a page saying "500 Internal Server Error" I've looked this up and there are a lot of people with the same error but the solution seems inconsistent between them. Any ideas?