philchillbill wrote: > The FAQ section in the online docs mentions this on the subject of > player names: > > -During setup, the skill automatically retrieves the names of your > players from your LMS server. Best results with the skill will be > achieved if your players are named after the room in which they are > situated, without possessives and without extra/qualifying words such as > e.g. "player", "squeezebox" or "streamer". > > In other words, plain English single-word common names like > "Livingroom", "Kitchen", "Study", "Office", "Garage", "Studio", > "Bedroom", "Bathroom", "Diningroom", "Basement", "Guestroom", "Nursery", > "Library", "Cellar", "Hall", "Lobby", "Conservatory", "Lounge", > "Pantry", "Scullery", "Salon", "Washroom" all work perfectly and are > easiest to utter as you get used to the skill. > > Names like "John's player", "Master bedroom", "Livingroom front player", > "Bazinga" *may *work but will need to be verified by trial-and-error. > Same for contrived single-word names like "Kidsroom", "Babyroom", > "Spareroom" and "Alexandersroom". In the end, it's best to work with > names that Alexa can understand consistently for your locale.- > > Using *Touch *as a player name will cause endless grief. A design choice > was made to require that the player name maps to a normal > English-language room name (she has a built in list of what she thinks > that includes). Leaving it wide-open to any category of name slows down > command processing very noticeably and also causes her to add the vocals > of background music to your utterance. That's why this decision was made > for this skill.
OK at the moment I have Touch, Black Radio and White Radio. I'll need to change them all. Maybe I'll change one to " Church Hall "[emoji3] Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slartibartfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
