rederikus wrote: > @philchillbill, I am having a little trouble Streaming. I have two Echo > Show 5s. I give the command, "Alexa, open Media Server.", and then > "Stream some Jazz on Kitchen.", and it plays. Now I cannot stop the > Stream. Opening Media Server and saying, "Stop Stream on kitchen." > results in Media Server telling me that I do not have a player named > kitchen and would I like to look for one? So far the only way I have > been able to stop the Stream to an Echo device is to power cycle it. > > There also seems a problem with Streaming Pandora stations to Echo > players. "Stream Favourite 3 on Kitchen." which is an Echo Show 5 > results in Media Server taking the command and then doing nothing, no > music. > > Both commands work fine if I use the Play command to address LMS player > but Streaming to Echos, not so good. > > I am not complaining. I am just reporting what I said/did and what > happened. Is this me, am I outside what Media Servewr can currently do > or, is this a bug? > > Thanks > Pete
It's not a bug, it's a feature being used incorrectly :cool: If you look at the very first post in this thread at the examples of the Stream command, you'll see that you don't use a player name at all, as the Echo you are talking to is always the target for Streaming: Stream the album Parachutes by Coldplay Stream the compilation album 101 Running Songs Stream the single Alone Tonight by Above & Beyond Stream my newest album by Peter Gabriel Stream the song Chocolate by Snow Patrol Stream songs about 'Alabama' Stream songs featuring ATB Stream a random album by Pink Floyd Stream a random single by Shakira Stream some Acid Jazz Stream favorite number 7 Stream favorite 'FUNK FM' Stream favorite 'Podcasts' item 3 Stream favorite folder 'Audiobooks' item 4 Stream favorite 2 . 4 . 2 (dot) Regarding stopping the stream, that's different to stopping a Squeezebox playing. You don't use the skill name for this and just say "Alexa, pause". Even if you say "Alexa, stop", she will actually just pause and not stop so that you can resume later if you want (using - you guessed it: "Alexa, resume"). For next and previous when Streaming, it's just "Alexa, next" and "Alexa, previous". That's a side effect of the streaming process using the Echo as playback device. The skill just kicks that off and then backs off to let Alexa slurp data from LMS. Influencing that process is then something that the Echo/Alexa does somewhat outside the skill, as it were. Hence the omission of the skill name. But this, of course, only applies to Streaming - for Playing on Squeezeboxes the skill name is always required. The Pandora issue is probably because you're not targeting favorite '3' but favorite '3 on kitchen' which doesn't exist. Leave out the 'on kitchen' and it should work. Again, no player names for Streaming ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
