Paul Webster wrote: 
> I'm not suggesting that the player necessarily has to be permanently
> visible.
> I use Philippe's bridge for UPnP.
> I have it set so that the LMS player only appears when the UPnP device
> is switched on and has been detected.
> I know that play cannot be initiated from outside of the Alexa voice
> command/skill (not 100% true but near enough - e.g. some are using web
> commands to make Alexa perform text to speech functions).
> 
> However, today, the bridge maintains its own list of detected devices
> and they can be configured within the constraints of the plugin (not as
> an LMS player).
> Perhaps no per device configuration will be required within the bridge
> since so little can be adjusted from outside however, I was describing
> ways that things could work like the other bridges do it already.

Good that you mention the Loetzimmer TTS shell script documented at
https://blog.loetzimmer.de/2017/10/amazon-alexa-hort-auf-die-shell-echo.html
and also https://github.com/walthowd/ha-alexa-tts which I use
extensively at home for TTS. It is capable of retrieving Echo names via
its --a- switch by performing a login to the user's Amazon account. The
bridge could be configured to do likewise and retrieve such info for the
LMS user outside the skill to configure the bridge.


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