When sending TTS command like:

alexa_remote_control.sh -d 'Echo Salon' -e speak:"hey? Is there someone?"

The TTS seems well passed to the script, but Alexa is ignoring ? character, like if they were removed from the string (she is prononing the sentence without pause and without question intonation).
The same problem occurs with ! character, while it is correctly working with dot and coma (. or ,).

After playing around with it I finally got passed the cookie stuff.

Now i try doing a command or tts I do get a response in the terminal but Alexa doesn't talk at all.

core-ssh:/config# ./alexa_remote_control.sh -d "Alexa bedroom" -e goodmorning
sending cmd:goodmorning to dev:Alexa bedroom type:A3S5BH2HU6***
serial:G090LF1174831T** customerid:A1NJJUS9Z****
Sequence command: Alexa.GoodMorning.Play
HTTP/1.1 0 x-amzn-RequestId: baa41eed-02fd-11e9-****-576a926e3217
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://alexa.amazon.com
Content-Encoding: deflate
Vary: Origin
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: x-amzn-dat-gui-client-upgrade,X-Amzn-Error,loginUrl,X-Amzn-RequestId,x-amzn-alt-domain,Date,Location
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:47:19 GMT
Connection: close

This is what i get back. I did read somewhere that I'm not the only one that have/used to have this issue but I could see a fix for it really quick.

I had this issue earlier.
I don't know how to send a message to the owner
I'm using hassbian for home assistant and I was getting this error jq not found when I was trying to run alexa_remote_control.sh
I have sorted the issue out with sudo apt-get install jq
Hope it helps!

I'm trying to make her say this, but I get only silence

message: "temperature is {{ states('sensor.house_temp') }}"

any way to get it to work?

I couldn't get the signin to work until I changed to these settings:

LANGUAGE="en-GB"
AMAZON='amazon.co.uk'
ALEXA='layla.amazon.co.uk'

Hope this helps.

Hi,

i've tried it, set up, but nothing happens, if i send

( 7:31:19)[1607 :/tmp/ha-alexa-tts]# ./alexa_remote_control.sh -d "Echo in Livingroom" -e speak:This_is_a_test!
sending cmd:speak:This_is_a_test! to dev:Echo in Livingroom type:A3S5BH2HU6VAYF serial:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX customerid:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sequence command: Alexa.Speak
HTTP/1.1 0 x-amzn-RequestId: 56e37882-79cb-11e8-bde6-1566dd090b8e
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://alexa.amazon.com
Content-Encoding: deflate
Vary: Origin
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: x-amzn-dat-gui-client-upgrade,X-Amzn-Error,loginUrl,X-Amzn-RequestId,x-amzn-alt-domain,Date,Location
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 05:31:27 GMT
Connection: close

When trying to send a test message to ALL I get this message in the console.

{"message":"Rate exceeded"}

Hi,

This tool works well for me for long time, but now echo's speech includes underscore
Example with command: -e speak:1_2
It should be: "one two" (as before) but now: "one underscore two"

Any idea to fix?

Since yesterday, the volume command does not work.
I got the following message back :
{"message":"No routes found","userFacingMessage":null}

The speak command still works...

Regards

I successfully followed all the steps, but actually getting it to work inside HASSIO via the Wrapper.sh does not work.
It also does not give an error or something.

I am getting a captcha screen at .alexa.login and there is no success circumventing it.
I have tried the following:

1. Using firefox with disabled javascript and cleaned up cookies to login to alexa.amazon.com
2. Using chrome with disabled javascript and cleaned up cookies to login to alexa.amazon.com
3. Using chrome extension you suggested to get "all cookies" into cookies.txt and:

• Copy/Pasted cookies.txt into the SAMBA share folder homeassistant on Windows
• Renamed cookies.txt to -> .alexa.cookie (at which point disappeared from file explorer).
• Logged in via SSH on Pi navigated to /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant
• Executed: sudo mv .alexa.cookie /tmp
• Navigated to /tmp
• Executed chown and chgrp to set owner and group of .alexa.cookie to 'pi' (same as .alexa.login)
• Navigated back to /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant
• Executed the script ./alexa_remote_control.sh -a as per instructions.
• Nevative result , got captcha again.

Is it still working or has Amazon blocked it? Am I doing anything wrong based on the above?

Receiving error on first login (as expected). Followed procedure for logging in via chrome and using cookie.txt extension to save cookie. Moved cookie in to correct location.

Upon subsequent runs of alexa_remote_control.sh -a receive message that cookie is expired, logging in again. Login again fails.

Any other workarounds for this?

Good evening everyone,

Did anyone of you manage to run the option alexa_remote_control.sh -s ???

I have searched for all possible trackID imaginable on Amazon Music, I tested all the keys that existed and I do not find how it works.

I arrived there with for example 'Artist' 'Album' but it's not easy to find what to put, I guess with trackID it's easier.
For example: /var/www/html/plugins/script/core/ressources/alexa_remote_control.sh -d "Le salon" -s "Joe Dassin" "Les Champs-Elysées"

If you found where are the trackID, I'm interested with a huge pleasure !!!

Can a SEQUENCECMDs be added for announcements?

Can this be implemented on HASIO?

Thanks!

Hi,
I'm using Hassio in a docker environment. This is just a server, and not a workstation, so it has no GUI, and as such no Chrome, no Firefox, etc. I'm trying to use this, but it keeps giving me the following error:

cookie does not exist. logging in ...
ERROR: Amazon Login was unsuccessful. Possibly you get a captcha login screen.
Try logging in to https://alexa.amazon.com with your browser. In your browser
make sure to have all Amazon related cookies deleted and Javascript disabled!

(For more information have a look at /tmp/.alexa.login)

I looked in /tmp/.alexa.login, and it doesn't show any request for CAPTCHA.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

b

I've followed your instructions. Sure enough, I'm getting the captcha from my hass.io. So I used the cookies.txt extension to put the cookies file where specified. However, it tells me "cookie expired. logging in again". Then gets the captcha again.

I don't get the captcha locally in any browser, not in incognito, not when clearing cookies and all app data, not when disabling javascript, etc. I saved the cookies from a fresh login with cookies disabled. I'm on the same IP as the hass.io.

It appears the copied cookies are no good for another client? Doesn't make sense.

Any ideas?

Any Idea how to add Iheartradio support for music radio station playback?

I tried logging in with firefox and javascript disabled to watch the commands used but it doesn't look like you can login without javascript anymore. At least from what I can tell.

Thanks!

Hello can I add spanish tts in this files?

I can get it working from the command line and all of the entries in PATH are in the file, but I can't get it to work from HA itself. I'm not sure what information to provide here as I've already tried everything I can think of. Any tricks I might have missed? Really cool and works FINE from the command line. I'm certain it's something I haven't done...

Edit: I got it to work ONE time. A subsequent message didn't work... I updated the scripts (I had older copies) and the issue seems to be that the script is erasing the cookie every time I try to run it. Ran once, so I don't know what that's all about.

Having an issue on the HASS implementation side... Tests from the command line work fine, no issues with login and tests always result in speech coming out of the appropriate device - tested all of them.

I set up the command line notify objects in my configuration.yaml, restarted HASS and they all show up in services correctly and no errors in the log.

Then I setup an automation to test with and triggered it but nothing happens. No speech and no errors in the HASS log to show why it may have failed.

I also tried it manually from the service dev page (I think I have the JSON correct, but if I don't feel free to point that out):

Service: notify.office_dot

Service Data:
{
  "message": "Testing!"
}

And again, nothing. No speech, no errors. I see the service call toast message, but nothing happens.

I'm stumped at where to begin troubleshooting and would appreciate any help you can provide.

Further details: My old school HASS root directory is /home/hass and both scripts are in there. Both are properly setup as executable and changing ownership from root to the HASS user doesn't seem to make a difference.

Also tried hard coding the ALEXA_REMOTE variable in alexa_wrapper.sh to reflect my setup's path of /home/hass/alexa_remote_control.sh but that also didn't make a difference.

Running
./alexa_remote_control.sh -d "Leo's Echo Dot" -e speak:This_is_a_test!

Yields the following, but no sound from the device:

Sequence command: Alexa.Speak
HTTP/1.1 0 x-amzn-RequestId: d705e43d-f8fa-11e8-9c91-0bad5422181d
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://alexa.amazon.com
Content-Encoding: deflate
Vary: Origin
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: x-amzn-dat-gui-client-upgrade,X-Amzn-Error,loginUrl,X-Amzn-RequestId,x-amzn-alt-domain,Date,Location
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 02:01:26 GMT
Connection: close

no alexa command received

Commands

weather, traffic, flashbriefing, goodmorning, singasong, tellstory, vol

... all yield similar results.

While -q, -b, seem to work. It seems it's set to "read only".

Perhaps the devs have blocked "write"-style messages?

EXTREMELY excited to get this working, I've been waiting quite some time to push Audio to Alexa!

• Running latest Hassio version
• Using fresh firefox
• Disabled Javascript, logged into alexa (had to put in the captcha)
• Using Firefox cookies.txt plugin (copying to .alexa.cookie)
• running ./alexa_remote_control.sh -a ..... Says cookies expired, trying to login, then says might be captcha
• Trying to troubleshoot but script isn't even writing out a .alexa.login file

Any ideas?

script worked for a while, but now i get the following, with no output:

sending cmd:speak:This_is_a_test! to dev:Master Echo Dot type:A3S5BH2HU6VAYF serial:#serial# customerid:#customerid#
Sequence command: Alexa.Speak
HTTP/1.1 0 x-amzn-RequestId: 34393924-76ba-11e8-83a3-f941d21034f8
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://alexa.amazon.com
Content-Encoding: deflate
Vary: Origin
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: x-amzn-dat-gui-client-upgrade,X-Amzn-Error,loginUrl,X-Amzn-RequestId,x-amzn-alt-domain,Date,Location
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:51:14 GMT
Connection: close

Got it working in Hassio OK. But after a reboot it stops working and I have to reload the cookie "/tmp/.alexa.cookie". Is there a way around this?

Hi and thanks for this.
Could you please upgrade for Italy?
I tryed just to add it-IT and amazon.it in the remote control script, but I am not sure it is enough.
Thanks!!

I'd like to have a sound effect instead of TTS "Door Open"

According to this Alexa Sound Library link, seems like it should be possible to embed in the "speak" variable (could be mistaken) like this:

<speak>
    This is Alexa's regular speech, followed by the sound effect "bear groan roar (1)".
    <audio src='soundbank://soundlibrary/animals/amzn_sfx_bear_groan_roar_01'/>
</speak>

Tried this but not working ... any thoughts?

./alexa_remote_control.sh -d "ALL" -e "speak:'test'.<audio src='soundbank://soundlibrary/home/amzn_sfx_door_open_01'/>"

I have followed each step and have successfully managed to test the commands from the command line.

Since adding to to Hass.io I have tried to make a script call but this doesn't work. I have also tried to make a service call using the following request:

But unfortunately upon every call I get the following error:

2018-12-05 23:22:19 ERROR (SyncWorker_15) [homeassistant.components.notify.command_line] Command failed: /config/alexa_wrapper.sh -d 'Nathan's Echo Dot'

I've tried several calls and each time the same thing.

Here's my config.yaml notify:

#Notify
notify:
  - platform: command_line
    name: "Livingroom Echo"
    command: "/config/alexa_wrapper.sh -d 'Nathan's Echo Dot'"

Here's my PATH:

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
ALEXA_REMOTE="$DIR/alexa_remote_control.sh"

Any help would be greatly appreciated being so close to a result.

Do you have any working examples making use of multi-announce via USE_ANNOUNCEMENT_FOR_SPEAK?

Hi, first off, many thanks for this. TTS was a great addition but this is the icing on the cake.

There is an error in your read me, the command is missing .sh, so should be...

notify:
  - platform: command_line
    name: 'My Dot Name'
    command: "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/alexa_wrapper.sh -d 'My Dot Name'"

and

notify:
  - platform: command_line
    name: 'All Alexas'
    command: "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/alexa_wrapper.sh -d 'ALL'"

You may also like to add a note for hassio users, the command would be…

command: "/config/alexa_wrapper.sh -d 'ALL'"

...but apart from that the install is identical.