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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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?
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!
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!!
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!!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Hey, is there a way to make music assistant play music through Alexa Echo speaker when turned on? When I try to do this, it says that music cannot be played through TTS.
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.
@@kingkuntaSWM no worries 👌🏻. I don’t think you can change any of Amazons functionality. But if you are heading to the echo to press buttons anyway, you could use a wireless scene remote? Or buttons? :)
@@MarkWattTech I saw a random picture of a flush wall mounted echo Dot and thought, "that would be a really looking light switch." Lol just wondering. They are cheaper than actual smart switches and they do 10x more.
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.
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
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
Is it possible to substitute a helper value into the message of the notify? I would like the message to include a numeric value from a helper. e,g. "The temperature is now set to " input_number.temperature_setting.
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 )
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
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
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)
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
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.
Heya. Groups are still fiddly but there is an example of groups in the Alexa documentation. If you aren't borthed about them being in sync you could also just sent a notification to each speaker individually. I will be covering groups in a future video. I recently just rebooted this series.
@@MarkWattTech Hi, thank you for your reply! In the past I tried using Alexa native groups, but simply doesn't works at all. Yes sending a notification to each echo causes... echo :-)
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.
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?
Hi, Is it possible to have interaction with Alexa using Home assistant , for example , trigger via home assistant if temprature in my room is >25 degree then Alexa will ask via echo saying temp is high in your room , so you want to start the fan ? Si here if I say yes it should trigger to start a devise if I say no it exit.
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.
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
Im still looking for solution to send customised text command to alexa devixe like in routine in alexa app. For example "alexa, what weather will be tomorrow". That will make all most important things. Is it possible?
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.
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.
Great video but anyone know why I get a server 500 error when submitting the form to setup the Alexa integration.? 2FA enabled on Amazon acct but it errors every time. Any help greatly appreciated
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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 !
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?
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 ?
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
I did exactly as the video said but when I go to use the mini media player it reports that all of the devices are "unavailable". Tried restarting HA, same. Tried deleting and reading, same. Any ideas on what I am going wrong?
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
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!
I have create an automation in home assistant. When I create routine on the Alexa App, I am not able to see the home assistant automation but I can only see the home assistant scripts? Why and how do I expose the automation to the Alexa routine?
Alexa routines can only see HA scripts (which appear as scenes). You would need to either call your HA automation in a HA script and expose that, or re write your automation as a script.
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.
Hi , tried to set up the card for mini media player and it keeps saying custom element does not exist: mini media player. any ideas would be great thankyou
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.
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, 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).
Sooooooooooo... about running scripts with Alexa commands... it's been almost a year since this vid with no follow up on that. Any chance you could enlighten us? ;)
Heeeeeeeeeey…. I recently just rebooted the Alexa series 😁. It’s a current series I am working on so have a few parts. I will be covering scripts in that one 👍🏻 (I think i may have actually done this in another video too 🤔 - if not, it’s coming in the new series)
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark, thanks for your help with this stuff. I just started running the Home Assistant gauntlet a few weeks ago and it's been a harrowing experience. I did manage to set up the Alexa mini media player, thanks to you. What I really hope to accomplish is to offload everything that I can from Alexa so that all the Echos do is trigger Home Assistant automations through voice commands and make announcements. I live in a rural area and so because my internet connection is crap, so is Alexa's reliability (& LIFX) when it comes to any sort of light schedules, etc. Local FTW!
@@MarkWattTech Just looking for a little insight on something if I can pick your brain for a sec -- I have set up an input boolean toggle in Home Assistant along with a template for a binary sensor that copies the state of that toggle (type: door) to trigger Alexa routines but it does nothing, even though it's presented in the Alexa app as a routine trigger and updates in the app correctly. Any thoughts?
I keep getting a 500 internal server error on this. I've rolled it back to older versions and continue to get the same error. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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!
Hi Mark, do you know how to repeat an action on a script? I was able to trigger the amazon alarm sound when a sensor is triggered but needs it to be active until I disarmed the alarm.
@@MarkWattTech I tried but didn't worked. Seems that is something known with alexa. Per other videos seems that it works with google. I ordered a wifi siren (chime) to see how it works. Thanks.!
Do you have an idea on how to loop between led strip colors with a script? It's a tuya led strip but when I add it to home assistant , the effects are gone. :(
@@charlesromney i think the lighting effects for the tuya leds are tuya specific. One way of doing it is by creating a tuya scene (e.g light effect 1). HA then pulls they tuya scene in and is able to call light effect 1 (triggering your desired effect). You can then just call the light effect 1 scene from with your script. You can call it and then use a wait or another method to check if disarm has been activated. Hope that makes sense? Cheers. Edit: HA should automatically pick up the tuya scene you create. If not there is a service you can call to force update your Tuya stuff :)
I've tried some other Amazon Sounds, most of them don't work. The Doorbell worked, many others dont. No idea why some dont work.... Did you notice similar behaviour?
Heya :) I've actually been asked this a few times this week. I will whip up a very quick video to show you how to do it. You need to use the TTS call and then you can use any of the Alexa Skill Sounds. Should have it for you later today. And for anyone else there will also be a link in the description of the video :)
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.
“Alexa, what is the temperature in the garage?” I got it working - but it only answers on specified Alexa devices ‘hard coded’ into the HA Script. I want it to answer on the Echo I asked the question to, not every device in the house or a device that I’m not near. Is there any way to capture the triggering device and hand it to the script? Maybe if I use the Lambda implementation? Anyone know?
Heya. I plan on covering this in a future video (think I touch on it in one of my other alexa videos) but for now check the documentation for the last alexa called. You create a sensor to find the last spoken to echo. Then in your script the response comes from that echo. Works well.
Mark, I was able to announce to all my echo's but how to send a sound to all of them. I don't have listed the media_player.all_echos or media_player.everywhere that you have.
Hey Charles. I don’t think playing audio everywhere is working at the minute. In the Alexa Media player documentation in the groups section there is a “hack” that you could try.
@@MarkWattTech I just tried after I sent you my comment and it works. I follow your sound example and select all my echo entities and it works. Now I need to see how to control the volume because it's too low.
@@MarkWattTech Sorry it was alexa media player not showing up. HACS was there. I did a command line install to get past it. Now I have a "500 Internal Server Error" when trying to setup 2FA.
I can't get TTS working with the mini-media player. When I try she says, "Sorry text to speech can only be called with the notify.alexa_media service . Please see the alexa_media wiki for details" . It works if I set up a yaml from scratch in scripts, templates, and automations. (I even set up the actionable notifications)
@@MarkWattTech I have had this problem since I first installed Alexa Media Player. I would try it in Dev Tools, and it wouldn't work, and forgot about it since it works properly in everything I would want it to. But, it's been over a year now, and after watching your video I can see that this is not normal behavior. I know this is a long shot, but is there any chance that it's because I am in the US?
@@pashadavidson6808 I have exactly same issue. Thought it is now fixed when watching Mark's tutorial, but no change. TTS feature does not work straight from Media Player - I can use it only via notify.alexa
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 :)
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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?
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!
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
I have been trying to get alexa to announce that I am almost home forever finally got it to work with your help😀
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!
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 😄
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.
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 👊🏾👊🏾
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!!
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!
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.
Great tutorial. Finally got my Alexa echos working in Home Assistant. Thank you
Happy to have helped!
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 ?
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!
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 :)
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!
Hey, is there a way to make music assistant play music through Alexa Echo speaker when turned on? When I try to do this, it says that music cannot be played through TTS.
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 ;))
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 ??
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 🙂
Very nicely done.
I had to remove "tts' in data otherwise it would not work.
Can you change the function of the buttons on the actual echo dot via home assistant?
As in what happens when you use the top buttons?
@@MarkWattTech As in using the volume up button to switch on/off smart light. Thanks for your response btw.
@@kingkuntaSWM no worries 👌🏻.
I don’t think you can change any of Amazons functionality.
But if you are heading to the echo to press buttons anyway, you could use a wireless scene remote? Or buttons? :)
@@MarkWattTech I saw a random picture of a flush wall mounted echo Dot and thought, "that would be a really looking light switch." Lol just wondering. They are cheaper than actual smart switches and they do 10x more.
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.
I needed to install and re-install the mini media player . Thanks for this video.
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
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 🎉🎉
Really well done video, thorough with solid examples and interesting tidbits. Thanks for the work you do on these!
Thank you 🙏🏻😁
great video, thank you. Please keep in mind that after installing mini-player you might need to reset the whole HA again. :)
Is it possible to substitute a helper value into the message of the notify? I would like the message to include a numeric value from a helper. e,g. "The temperature is now set to " input_number.temperature_setting.
You can yes :)
Still referring to this video, especially from last month fiasco of the Alexa integration. It needs an update to the OTP login loop
Can I use alexa media player to show unifi camera motion detected?
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 )
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
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.
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
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)
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
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.
Hi, how can I do to send a notification to a pair of alexa speakers? Thank you
Heya. Groups are still fiddly but there is an example of groups in the Alexa documentation. If you aren't borthed about them being in sync you could also just sent a notification to each speaker individually.
I will be covering groups in a future video. I recently just rebooted this series.
@@MarkWattTech Hi, thank you for your reply! In the past I tried using Alexa native groups, but simply doesn't works at all. Yes sending a notification to each echo causes... echo :-)
Hi. I have bought another speaker. How do i add it?
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.
Is there a way to announce current time?
You could get the current time and use it in a template and have that read out. You can probably find a quick snippet on the HA forum :)
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?
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
Great Video. Exactly what I was looking for to dip my toe into Alexa and HA integration.
Hi,
Is it possible to have interaction with Alexa using Home assistant , for example , trigger via home assistant if temprature in my room is >25 degree then Alexa will ask via echo saying temp is high in your room , so you want to start the fan ? Si here if I say yes it should trigger to start a devise if I say no it exit.
I did a tutorial on this. The thing you are after is called "Actionable Notifications".
I will be creating a new tutorial on this in the future.
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.
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
Im still looking for solution to send customised text command to alexa devixe like in routine in alexa app. For example "alexa, what weather will be tomorrow". That will make all most important things. Is it possible?
For customised text i manually write the text in an Alexa routine and have that routine call a HA script to return data etc.
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.
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 :)
Great video but anyone know why I get a server 500 error when submitting the form to setup the Alexa integration.? 2FA enabled on Amazon acct but it errors every time. Any help greatly appreciated
In ha, can i Send a command to Alexa to execute a skill (by exemple a radio in Tuneln radio) ????? thanks
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
waiting future video :). nice tut
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! :-)
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 !
Hi, can I use my android phone as Eco Dot? I have tried but I can not use text to speech... nothing heard
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?
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
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 ?
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
I did exactly as the video said but when I go to use the mini media player it reports that all of the devices are "unavailable". Tried restarting HA, same. Tried deleting and reading, same. Any ideas on what I am going wrong?
Hey Paul.
Did you have any luck with this?
Try clearing your browser cache and check your logs for any errors.
For some reasons am unable to get the tts to works, more to that my echo dot always shows either unavailable or on standby
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
How quickly does Alexa answer or execute scripts? Getting sick of Google assistant compared to local HomeKit. It takes like 5 seconds to respond
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!
I have create an automation in home assistant. When I create routine on the Alexa App, I am not able to see the home assistant automation but I can only see the home assistant scripts? Why and how do I expose the automation to the Alexa routine?
Alexa routines can only see HA scripts (which appear as scenes). You would need to either call your HA automation in a HA script and expose that, or re write your automation as a script.
Hi Mark, I can't see any Alexa integration in Configuration (2:34 min vid). Can you help me please. Thanks
Hey Sebastion. Try and clear your browser cache if its not appearing in the list.
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.
Hi , tried to set up the card for mini media player and it keeps saying custom element does not exist: mini media player. any ideas would be great thankyou
Heya. Sound like it’s not seeing the resources. This is ofter a browser cache issue. Try clearing your cache and it should be there :)
@@MarkWattTech That was it for me. Closing browser and reopening allowed it to be seen correctly. Thank you Mark!
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.
My Echo's status seems to go offline when Echo's go into Standby mode. Anyway to fix this?
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
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!!
apparently the mini tts has been removed, and you have to use the mediaplayer.
how are we to redirect to the alexa's
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).
Sooooooooooo... about running scripts with Alexa commands... it's been almost a year since this vid with no follow up on that. Any chance you could enlighten us? ;)
Heeeeeeeeeey…. I recently just rebooted the Alexa series 😁. It’s a current series I am working on so have a few parts. I will be covering scripts in that one 👍🏻
(I think i may have actually done this in another video too 🤔 - if not, it’s coming in the new series)
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark, thanks for your help with this stuff. I just started running the Home Assistant gauntlet a few weeks ago and it's been a harrowing experience. I did manage to set up the Alexa mini media player, thanks to you. What I really hope to accomplish is to offload everything that I can from Alexa so that all the Echos do is trigger Home Assistant automations through voice commands and make announcements. I live in a rural area and so because my internet connection is crap, so is Alexa's reliability (& LIFX) when it comes to any sort of light schedules, etc. Local FTW!
@@MarkWattTech Just looking for a little insight on something if I can pick your brain for a sec -- I have set up an input boolean toggle in Home Assistant along with a template for a binary sensor that copies the state of that toggle (type: door) to trigger Alexa routines but it does nothing, even though it's presented in the Alexa app as a routine trigger and updates in the app correctly. Any thoughts?
I keep getting a 500 internal server error on this. I've rolled it back to older versions and continue to get the same error. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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!
Hi Mark, do you know how to repeat an action on a script? I was able to trigger the amazon alarm sound when a sensor is triggered but needs it to be active until I disarmed the alarm.
Hey Charles. Sorry for the delay. Did you manage to sort this? You could have the script just loop until your disarm is triggered.
@@MarkWattTech I tried but didn't worked. Seems that is something known with alexa. Per other videos seems that it works with google. I ordered a wifi siren (chime) to see how it works. Thanks.!
Do you have an idea on how to loop between led strip colors with a script? It's a tuya led strip but when I add it to home assistant , the effects are gone. :(
@@charlesromney i think the lighting effects for the tuya leds are tuya specific. One way of doing it is by creating a tuya scene (e.g light effect 1). HA then pulls they tuya scene in and is able to call light effect 1 (triggering your desired effect). You can then just call the light effect 1 scene from with your script. You can call it and then use a wait or another method to check if disarm has been activated.
Hope that makes sense?
Cheers.
Edit: HA should automatically pick up the tuya scene you create. If not there is a service you can call to force update your Tuya stuff :)
@@MarkWattTech Ok, I will try that ! 👍🏼 Thanks again Mark.
I've tried some other Amazon Sounds, most of them don't work. The Doorbell worked, many others dont. No idea why some dont work.... Did you notice similar behaviour?
Heya :)
I've actually been asked this a few times this week. I will whip up a very quick video to show you how to do it. You need to use the TTS call and then you can use any of the Alexa Skill Sounds. Should have it for you later today. And for anyone else there will also be a link in the description of the video :)
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.
“Alexa, what is the temperature in the garage?” I got it working - but it only answers on specified Alexa devices ‘hard coded’ into the HA Script. I want it to answer on the Echo I asked the question to, not every device in the house or a device that I’m not near. Is there any way to capture the triggering device and hand it to the script? Maybe if I use the Lambda implementation? Anyone know?
Heya. I plan on covering this in a future video (think I touch on it in one of my other alexa videos) but for now check the documentation for the last alexa called. You create a sensor to find the last spoken to echo. Then in your script the response comes from that echo. Works well.
Mark, I was able to announce to all my echo's but how to send a sound to all of them. I don't have listed the media_player.all_echos or media_player.everywhere that you have.
Hey Charles. I don’t think playing audio everywhere is working at the minute. In the Alexa Media player documentation in the groups section there is a “hack” that you could try.
@@MarkWattTech I just tried after I sent you my comment and it works. I follow your sound example and select all my echo entities and it works. Now I need to see how to control the volume because it's too low.
@@charlesromney ah cool. It must now be working again then 😁. Check out the media_player.volume service :)
@@MarkWattTech Thanks Mark
After adding to HACS it doesn't show up to add in integrations. Any ideas
Sounds like a browser cache issue. Try clearing your cache and it should appear :)
@@MarkWattTech Sorry it was alexa media player not showing up. HACS was there. I did a command line install to get past it. Now I have a "500 Internal Server Error" when trying to setup 2FA.
I can't get TTS working with the mini-media player. When I try she says, "Sorry text to speech can only be called with the notify.alexa_media service . Please see the alexa_media wiki for details" . It works if I set up a yaml from scratch in scripts, templates, and automations. (I even set up the actionable notifications)
Hey Pasha, did you manage to resolve it in the end?
@@MarkWattTech I have had this problem since I first installed Alexa Media Player. I would try it in Dev Tools, and it wouldn't work, and forgot about it since it works properly in everything I would want it to. But, it's been over a year now, and after watching your video I can see that this is not normal behavior. I know this is a long shot, but is there any chance that it's because I am in the US?
@@pashadavidson6808 I have exactly same issue. Thought it is now fixed when watching Mark's tutorial, but no change. TTS feature does not work straight from Media Player - I can use it only via notify.alexa
I have the same error as Pasha... everything else seems to work fine though.
@@eepmatt Same here...I wonder if something changed and broke the TTS....
Thanks for the helpful Video! Wow, you own an La marzocco :-) Nice!!