For a long time I used Alexa media to get notifications such as "Dryer finished". Several months ago they broke and my understanding is that that method may no longer be available. Text notifications in the same automations still work. Is there a reliable way to get notifications from Alexa?
#Alexa Notifications
primal scarab
deep plover
AMP is tempremental and breaks fairly often but i think its working at the moment
action: notify.alexa_media_DEVICE_NAME_HERE
data:
data:
type: announce
message: message here
That is the action I have in the automations, but it no longer appears on the list of actions to choose.
deep plover
is your AMP updated, logged in and showing devices?
primal scarab
Show 14 devices, but says "Not Loaded". Sounds like that might be a problem. How do I best fix it?
deep plover
delete it, restart, reinstall it, restart, readd it and log in
thats where i would start
AMP has been various stages of broken over time. if it broke months ago then it could be any number of issues that caused it
primal scarab
This septuagenarian thanks you for your help. That sounds logical. I will give it a try, probably tomorrow. Is it likely to become more reliable?
deep plover
i haven't had any issues with it for a while now. i think theres a bug if your device is set to dutch but other than that its been fairly stable i think.
I have moved pretty much all notifications over to a Voice-PE now though
primal scarab
Voice-PE?
primal scarab
I think Alexa media might be easier for me at the moment. I may tackle that in the future.
Thanks.
deep plover
no reason you cant run both in the short term. if you get one you could move a couple of things over and see how you get on
primal scarab
Maybe I will. I assume it involves getting new devices. I run on an X-86.
deep plover
generating TTS is pretty lightweight so that you can do on your existing hardware i imagine. STT is a bit more hard work. i have it offloaded to a GPU but you can salso do it with cloud options
there is a new "speech to phrase" which is bit more limited then general speech recogition but it can run on lower end hardware
this stuff is in super active development too so its constantly getting better with every update
primal scarab
this stuff is in super active development too so its constantly getting better w...
That is why I may take my time. I understand HAV was only implemented last year, so it will almost certainly get easier. Anyway, I really thank you for taking the time to provide some help and insight. It has been really useful.