rederikus wrote: 
> Thanks for that phil.  This will help testing enormously.
> 
> MY install is slowly coming to life.  One problem was that I rebooted my
> Pi after I finished the installation so that renewed the tunnel url -
> duh.  Now I am able to login to ngrok via the new link and access my LMS
> via that link and play music as if I were using the local LAN IP
> address.  So far, so good.
> 
> The skill now accepts the (updated) tunnel url too.  Again, good.
> 
> I put the tunnel url into the LMS Additional Repositories field in
> Settings > Plugins Was that right?
> 
> Using an Echo voice command I cannot yet play via the LMS to any Echo or
> LMS player.  I gave the following commands to an Echo Show 5
> 
> Alexa, open Media Server
> Alexa, assume the House player // this is my whole house system LMS
> group.  It has 3 x PiCorePlayers.
> Alexa, play some music on House.  
> 
> Echo responds with, "Here's some music you might like playing on house
> switch B",  and... silence.  It is consistent and does this every time.
> 
> I feel that I am close to having this working now and seem to have just
> this one problem to overcome and it will work.
> 
> Can you point me in the right direction please phil.
> 
> Thanks.

This skill has nothing to do with plugins or LMS repositories so that
was an unneeded/undesired step.

Two problems with your streaming approach:

(1) After the assume command completes, the skill session is closed so
this skill is no longer listening. That subsequent 'play some music on
House' is not directed to the skill any more but is directed to Alexa in
general for her to decide what service to use for fulfillment. It for
sure won't be this skill, which is why she produced gibberish. You would
have to say 'Alexa,* tell Media Server to* play some Music on House'.
Except that 'some' is reserved for -genres -by this skill, and music is
not a genre. So that, too, would fail. 'Alexa, tell Media Server to play
some Jazz on House'  would work, if you have jazz in your library. I
*strongly *recommend you take a look at the command reference online -
it's designed to prevent grief like this ;)

(2) Streaming only works to a -single -echo, namely the echo you are
speaking to. You can PLAY to multiple Squeezeboxes and group players
work fine, but not STREAM to multiple Echos. Again, it's all in the
online docs.

The command reference starts here: 
https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/commandref/AddToPlaylist.html


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