A user pointed out that playlists referencing Deezer tracks or on Deezer
itself were causing errors, The offending code was the part checking if
the playlist exists but is empty, which LMS does not seem to like for
external tracks: :confused:
Code:
{ "id": "1",
kstmuc wrote:
> After starting *setup.sh* the wget command returns error message about
> an expired certificate:
>
> --2022-12-20 20:07:45--
> -https: // smartskills.tech / downloads / ngrok_updater.sh--
> Resolving smartskills.tech... 185.27.142.89
> Connecting to
itm wrote:
> My Squeezebox Boom in the kitchen is on the blink, and I was thinking
> about something with a proper display to replace it. The Google Nest Hub
> Max looks interesting, but I was wondering whether it could be
> configured to show the track details (name/artist/album) when content
Shozzer wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I have also had the you have no works by
> message as well. So I shouldn't waste time in tweaking my Artist / Album
> Artist tags then but focusing on the album names?
>
> What is the correct response to I need the name of the artist?
>
> Steve
If
Shozzer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Curtesy of Black Friday I took the plunge and purchased a couple of
> Echos (Studio and Dot). I set up the system before the devices arrived
> and carried out some testing via the Alex App. This helped to introduce
> me to the process but there are some limitations.
>
>
slartibartfast wrote:
> Now Alexa.amazon has been deprecated how do you remove duplicate
> devices? I can't see a way to remove all devices and rediscover them.
>
> Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
They are deletable from your Alexa mobile app. The only reason they
appeared at all is
Paul Webster wrote:
> Can still find it at
> https://www.amazon.co.uk/smartskills-tech-LMS-lite/dp/B083H9JTJY
Smart :cool: I had forgotten that!
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slartibartfast wrote:
> So I should probably unlink both skills and reenable them on my phone
> and then edit the updater with the new UUID. Will that work?
>
> Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
Yep.
slartibartfast wrote:
> Looks like Amazon have removed a lot of functionality from
> HTTPS://alexa.amazon.co.uk
> I can't even find skills now.
>
Yep, they've deprecated that portal. You now have to use the mobile app
which is not very suited to linking my LMS skills.
The only solution to
slartibartfast wrote:
> Would that hold even if all cookies etc are deleted each time the
> browser closes?
>
Yes. Deleting localStorage can be done but is separate from deleting
cookies/history.
philchillbill's
slartibartfast wrote:
> How do I relink LMS- lite with the original UUID contained in the
> updater script? If I try to link I get a new UUID.
Your browser remembers the uuid in localStorage. If you use the same
browser that you used when you originally linked, then you will see the
same uuid.
slartibartfast wrote:
> I just received this message. I can't remember ever seeing it before..
>
Over the summer, I changed LMS-lite to automatically unlink the skill
when the connectivity towards LMS is gone. See post #285.
To get it back, you need to re-link LMS-lite (only). Before doing
Because the ngrok v2 downloads were causing SSL-cert errors in China,
I've *updated *the easy-setup procedure to make use of v3 for all
platforms. For linux-variants, the .zip format has been dropped in
favour of .tgz. The installer handles this change automatically. The
.yml file is slightly
pprjack wrote:
> This is all fine and good but, what I REALLY want is some way to see an
> Echo Speaker Group (a pair of Echos and an Echo Sub) available as a
> player from the idle LMS Server UI or mobile app and initiate a
> listening session from there.
> I still find the process of
smarties wrote:
> Hmmm.. I can't remember to be honest, but I don't -think- I did.
> Obviously I would have changed the LMS IP in the ngrok config file at
> the time but there wouldn't have been a reason for me to change the
> password. Maybe I did a full reinstall & setup though, and got my
>
smarties wrote:
> Bingo ! It works again :D Fantastic - many thanks for your help.
>
> (and yes the password did have one of those characters in it)
>
> Great stuff - I have 2 very happy kids in the house again !
>
> Thanks again!
Good to hear. I'd hazard a guess that you changed your
smarties wrote:
> Could be related, but playing directly from Amazon music or BBC radio
> works fine on the echos so I'm not sure its exactly same problem.
>
> I've tried de-registering and re-registering the echo too, and that made
> no difference.
>
> It's a bit weird how the echo player
smarties wrote:
> Yep that's the correct IP and Port
>
> And no luck with switching device language to US - everything works
> except streaming.
See
https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P6zSqxtSAC/echo-will-reply-to-command-but-wont-play-music
for proof youre not alone with this. I
smarties wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response - no luck with that I'm afraid. Discovery
> only finds my regular players (squeezelite based), not any of my echos.
>
> I've tried disabling and re-enabling the skill and gone through set up
> again but no luck with that either.
>
> Anything
smarties wrote:
>
>
> I did change my router fairly recently which meant I had to change the
> IP ranges of all my devices so that could be related but again as
> everything else is working fine so I'm doubtful.
>
>
I'll bet it relates to that change of internal IPs. The reason the
regular
Fixed a bug in the on-screen player controls where the repeat icon
displayed instead of the shuffle icon.
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konrat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can the skill be controlled by the LMS/Material App on an Android Phone?
> I tried that. However there seems to be a buffer of nearly a minute or
> so. A Pause command is executed 1 min late or so.
>
> Is there any other way to app-control playback on an Echo without
bobefax wrote:
> Hi
>
> Have installed via the installer on the mediaserver.smartskills.tech
> site - all simple enough to follow and using powershell on windows to
> install with ngrog - worked fine.
>
> Have linked the skill via amazon and again straight forward to do.
>
> Using with Echo
The APL player-controls received a facelift. @staresy pointed out that
the badges for the repeat/shuffle buttons were being cropped on the Echo
Show 5. There was a bug in the APL simulator that was hiding this for me
and I could not verify on a real device, but the simulator has been
updated and
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Another minor one, probably mentioned in the long thread somewhere, but
> just for fun I tried the Alexa Windows app as a player and it doesn't
> work - but this is probably because it uses some off-net proxy (the
> private address space that I do not use is a good clue)
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> It works! Thanks you. Take my money - literally. New subscriber now
> happy :)
>
> One more feature request for "one day" - The Echo Show 15 can be mounted
> in portrait mode and the normal display looked quite squashed in
> landscape. I am sure there is also some value
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Yeah, the Basic auth details for the proxy, when it doesn't need it,
> just drops through in the headers to the native HTTP interface and hence
> the UI works for me.
>
> In my case using a 3rd party proxy would still NOT work as I am not
> removing LMS password
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Because I enable password security on all my LMS instances by default?
> This is in fact what I use to protect my test proxy for your skills in
> testing - I don't have proxy passwords, instead using the user and
> password in LMS in the config and it works for everything
Paul Webster wrote:
> Just tried to stream to an Echo Dot (2nd Gen I think) and it worked.
> But
. after about 10 minutes of playing the Dot showed a brief yellow
> ring and, I think, rebooted itself!
>
> Ill try a few more times later today to see if repeatable.
Yellow ring means the Echo
Amazon has freshly certified *V6.0* of MediaServer. Because there were
changes to the voice-model, the Alexa app will reflect it as updated
this time round. As always, you don't need to do anything for access
you invariably run the latest version whenever you invoke the skill.
- All
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> .
>
> Can Media Server LAN access to /stream.mp3 work with security enabled on
> the server?
No, the http stream has to be unprotected. It is, after all, inside your
LAN. Why would you want LMS to be password-protected for local use?
Based on @MrC's feedback (thanks!), the online setup instructions have
been updated to (hopefully) be clearer :cool:
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@chaug, I can see in the logs that your ARN is targeting US-East-1 (in
North Virginia) while your locale is set to en-GB. This means your
latency is quite high. I've had British expats in the US complain that
Alexa often misunderstood them with this combo.
You might fare better by setting
chaug wrote:
> This morning I had major issues with getting the skill to shuffle play
> my playlist. There were three songs that produced just silence, two of
> which I noted down and later tried to play using stream.mp3 as described
> above. Both of them played in the web browser.
>
> I also
chaug wrote:
> I don't see how the speed of my commands is a source of error. I speak
> at the same pace as you do in your demonstration video (which is good,
> btw. Very nice to get an idea of the app). Besides, there is not much
> pacing involved in "Alexa shuffle" or "Alexa, next".
MrC wrote:
>
> First and foremost, I want to say how much I appreciated your nicely
> designed software and web content, and your overall superb support for
> everyone here. This is the first mondo-thread where I read every post
> from 1 to n. Great work, and thank you.
Good to hear :cool:
chaug wrote:
>
> > >
- How can I start streaming an LMS-playlist in shuffle mode (so that
> it starts with a different track every time)
- What am I doing wrong with the no-invocation commands? I can
> confidently say that my english pronounciation is in no way unusual
> or
The second post in this thread ahs been updated with a list of how to
speak several commands in French and German. If anybody can suggest
working phraseology for e.g. playing favorites and changing
shuffle/repeat modes, I'll add them. Amazon has no docs on their own
voice model I'm afraid :(
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers, been there done those; Specifically:
>
> I tried "alexa, stream the album songs from the north" and she replies
> correctly and the album art appears. LAME is installed (docker container
> on a Synology) and - this is the fun bit - when I the open
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> I've gone through a somewhat convoluted set-up process, using my own
> proxy, and while the skill can control the player on my PC I cannot get
> it to either stream audio or assume a player for my Echo Show 8. If I
> tell media server to "assume the lounge player" is just
Thanks to @chaug on the LMS-lite thread, there's now a documented
procedure for subscribing when Alexa tells you that subscriptions are
not available in your country/region.
See
https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/mediaserverhelp.html#section-7-1-2
for a how-to.
chaug wrote:
>
> So the MediaServer skill is available in German? (It doesn't say so on
> your website). If that is the case, that explains why the agent says it
> is available on the German store.
>
Many thanks I got the details in your PM and will play with it to
generalise for others.
chaug wrote:
> Okay, I just had a longish chat with the amazon.com support and learned
> that the country that Alexa checks (and that she refers to when she says
> that something is not available in your country) is the country set
> under Content and Devices. As soon as I changed it to a US
chaug wrote:
>
> Don't you have any subscribers from Germany? As a
> skill-developer/seller, do you have some support at amazon that you can
> ask what either your customers or you can do, to make the subscription
> available in non-english speaking countries like, well, most European
>
chaug wrote:
> Okay, so it is the location under "digital content" that's relevant
> here. Good to know. Unfortunately that doesn't explain why Alexa won't
> let me subscribe because my location under digital content is Germany:
>
> It's not as simple as that though. Because I manage my
There is no Swedish for Alexa so shes fine with UK English for Sweden
(in the EU, the UK store is default for all unsupported languages.
Amazon never thought Brexit would actually happen).
It should just work. Or has Amazon decided to link the Swedish store to
Germany? Anyway, a workaround is
ncameron wrote:
> There's no other 'always on' device unfortunately.
>
> But - er - what's Bash?
>
> Neil
Think of bash as a programming language the script is written in. It
needs your system to have an interpreter installed to run it.
If you are comfortable using ssh to access your nas
ncameron wrote:
> My LMS is running on my ReadyNAS 314 server. Is there a simple guide to
> getting this working on that?
>
> Neil
Its an Intel Atom so you could try the Linux 32-bit Intel download. But
that then expects bash to be available so not sure it will succeed.
Ngrok can run on any
It looks like Amazon has finally made the PlaybackController interface
available for it-IT. This means that LMS-lite can be made available in
*Italian *if the description text for the Amazon skill-store/app is
translated. It's quite a short description: see
Grizzly wrote:
> Excellent addition to my LMS setup thankyou. I was just catching up on
> the forum about developments etc and noticed the Stream command so
> thought I would check it out. Whilst everything appears to work. I do
> not get any output from my Echo (Show 8). Cover art is displayed
I have several new intents lined up for certification so now would be a
good time to tweak any misfirings in the voice model.
I find that Alexa often misunderstands me when I use the assume and
ungroup commands.
If you have any examples of commands that she often misunderstands for
you,
Tweaks:
* The ImageList APL template can now split the screen and start a new
row of Tiles per-artist when multiple artists match a requested song.
* When queueing multiple variations of a requested track, the queued vs
non-queued variants of the track appear above and below a scrollable
split.
Tweaks:
* Just added beep-when-touched functionality to the buttons on the
ImageList, TextList and FavList APL screens and to the buttons on the
PlayerControls popup.
* Fixed an issue introduced yesterday when the prev/next buttons on the
PlayerControls popup were used (the NowPlaying screen
mechaMecha wrote:
> I see. Thanks for the quick reply! The way I use Tidal and Qobuz most of
> the time is to check out artists and albums that I don't have in my
> local music library. I don't generally like to listen to the same songs
> over and over again. Is there any hope that this skill
andrewhess wrote:
> I have been referring to that list, so at least I have that going for
> me. :)
>
> I have Spotty on the LMS home menu, but I've renamed it to Spotify (not
> sure if that matters).
>
> I'll play around when I get home so I'll have more detailed info (or so
> I can let you
andrewhess wrote:
> I'm now realizing I may have been saying "Play in Spotify" but
> perhaps it has to be "Spotty"? I want MediaServer to search Spotify for
> the album or song and play it.
Alexa is rather specific with syntax, so guessing what a command -might
-be is usually not a good
andrewhess wrote:
> Any idea why I can't get Mediaserver or LMS-lite to play from Spotty? I
> thought that it would go to Spotify if the item wasn't in my personal
> library. I've also tried specifying Spotify, but that doesn't work
> either.
LMS-lite has no 'play xxx' commands at all so all
mechaMecha wrote:
> I've noticed that there are some brief mentions of this MediaServer
> skill being able to control Tidal and Qobuz, but I haven't seen anything
> specific about how to invoke commands to do so. I apologize if this
> information can be found somewhere in this thread, but I've
Nice one, Stuart.
Can the list of defined Radio Favorites be queried in any way from
jsonrpc.js or the XML browser (to potentially allow playback from
Alexa)?
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Some more APL tweaks:
* Progress bar is now the same color as the icons (wheat).
* Track *duration *in H:M:S appears in small text at the rightmost
extremity of the progress bar. Leading 0's are stripped.
* *Back *button is only shown when there is something to go back to.
* goBack behaviour is
andrewhess wrote:
> That did it! It must have been the reboot -- I saw the ngrok address
> change and - bang - I've got Mediaserver! Lot's to play with here. Thank
> you so much!
>
> Two small questions (I'm still reading through the thread, so apologies
> if it's already been covered):
>
> >
Some minor APL tweaks:
* AlbumArtist is now shown in italics (if the tag is present)
* The progress bar changes to red if playback is paused or stopped
* The track-total is now shown in a smaller font than the curretn
track-index
* If the name of the genre is long enough to cause the
andrewhess wrote:
> Okay, that's weird. First, when I use my browser, I get:
> 36692
>
> When I click beyond it, my username and password are not accepted. I did
> have a password with $'s, but took those out. Neither password worked.
>
> ???
>
> Should I redo the configurator?
> Oh, and no
andrewhess wrote:
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I created the tunnel in ngrok and see it
> in my dashboard. I ran 'sh setup.sh' in my picoreplayer and it ran
> successfully. I am entering the username and password I created when I
> created the tunnel. I even looked in setup.sh to make sure
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The skill's Now-Playing screen has a new button next to the progress-bar
(encircled in red in the image above). When you press it, a set of
Player Controls appears on the bottom of the screen for 15 seconds (or
until you click the little [X] in the top-right corner for immediate
closure).
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When you ask to play a named track, e.g. "Alexa, play the song
Cloudburst Flight" (by Tangerine Dream), the skill first searches for
all matches across your entire library. All variants with the same
base-title 'disappear' into a single queued variant that represents them
all. This is not
If you install the LMS-lite smart home Alexa skill then your players and
your smart sockets can all be included in Alexa routines and grouped any
way you like.
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castalla wrote:
> and. SUCCESS! Fav 1 (bbc from Global player) now playing with
> artwork and sound.
Great. Sorry I didnt think of LAME earlier. Ill add it to the
Troubleshooting guide in the online help.
expectingtofly wrote:
> I don't know anything about the how the Alexa skill works. But in terms
> of Global player, the plugin is just providing direct links to the
> remote stream (most of them are Mp4), the plugin is not doing anything
> with them, so the plugin is not really involved there
castalla wrote:
> Tried the browser route - small player shows but no sound.
Do you have Lame installed on your pi? Sounds like no transcoding
happening.
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castalla wrote:
> I used this as a fav:
>
> http://media-ice.musicradio.com/LBCUKMP3Low
>
> This works with sound and the wave bar artwork.
>
> Pity that Plugins are an issue.
>
> Thanks for the help.
Well that would seem to indicate that your Show is not the issue. If you
really want an
castalla wrote:
> Okay firmware is latest.
>
> It seems that the only streaming Favs which work are those from tuneib.
> Favs from Global Player and BBC Sounds refuse to play.
> Global shows metadata but SOUNDS just gives a blank black screen.
Ok well then it must just be down to the
castalla wrote:
> Still getting the radio mast.
>
> The LBC favourite shows the full metadata with logo but totally silent.
>
> How do I check the Show is upto date?
>
> Edit:: added another favourite from Global Player. Same outcome
> metadata but no sound.
The gray radio mast is being
castalla wrote:
> Favs 2 and 3 play but artwork is now the radio mast.
>
> Fav 1 (global player - LBC UK) no sound and black screen. Same for Fav
> 4 (BBC World service) from BBC Sounds plugin..
>
> Tested on Show 5
Try for artwork now (I fixed a typo). I have no logical explanation for
castalla wrote:
> Thanks. Will be tomorrow before I can test. Will report back.
Sure. The lack of audio on TuneIn might be a geo restriction when
playing via Amazon (who knows where that server is located). Anyway? You
can play any tunein station outside of LMS involvement by just saying
castalla wrote:
> It's the LBC UK stream via Global Player...
> We need someone else to test the same Global link to see if it's me or a
> general issue?
You should now have icons for the /imageproxy/ favorites. Let me know
how it goes.
Paul Webster wrote:
> It is a URL relative to LMS
so equivalent to
> h t t p://lmshost:9000/imageproxy etc
>
> It is a built-in proxy in LMS that can reduce external lookups and
> perform image scaling.
Thanks Paul. That makes sense. Ill just grab it from the url-decoded
external path when
castalla wrote:
> TUNEIN for favs 2 and 3
> Fav 1 is a stream using the Global Player plugin - icon but no sound.
>
> All report as AAC.
You should have audio for favorite 1. No idea why it does not play. You
do see the icon for that because it's
castalla wrote:
> Works fine on squeezebox.
>
> The artwork shown is a grey box with a music note (which on squeezebox
> and lms shows as station logo or current track playing)
I'll bet the offending favorite plays via an LMS plugin? The plugin
makes sure that the correct icon shows in LMS.
castalla wrote:
> I just tried with 2 different favs. Sound this time...no artwork shown.
> Then back to fav 1 and no sound but artwork.
>
> I'm really confused - in alexa app the info says it was last updated 6
> months ago.
The Alexa app only shows an update when a certification round is
castalla wrote:
>
> I tried 'stream favourite 1' on my Show 8. It loads the metadata screen
> (nice!) but there's no sound
>
Do things work ok on regular Squeezebox players? Did you set an assumed
player?
The logs show successful streaming of LBC1, which your Echo Show also
acknowledged
V5.4 is now live, with the most important change being that artwork
displayed on your Echo's Screen is now *persistent*. Every 6 seconds,
the Echo polls the skill for an update of the artwork/metadata,
increasing to every 2 seconds in the last 6 seconds of a now-playing
track so as not to miss
Tip: The Material skin looks better on an Echo Show in so-called
-Desktop -mode (don't confuse this with Material's own Desktop/Mobile
paradigm this is a separate Amazon term). You can set the Show to
default to this mode by going to
Settings --> Device Options --> Web Options --> Browser -->
cpd73 wrote:
> As stated in my edit, I got the fake click to work - but the fullscreen
> request was then denied.
>
> [Edit] Tried in chromium - "Failed to execute 'requestFullscreen' on
> 'Element': API can only be initiated by a user gesture"
Pity. Appreciate your experimenting with it!
cpd73 wrote:
> Doesn't work for me. Tried Firefox and Chromium. I add a 'click' handler
> to go fullscreen. The fake click does not invoke this, but if I then
> click on the view it goes fullscreen.
Ok. Ive only ever used it (with success) from jQuery rather than pure
js so maybe it actually
cpd73 wrote:
> Sorry, no. Javascript can request fullscreen, but only in response to a
> user click. Which I guess makes sense, as most users would not want some
> random website opening a fullscreen page.
But a click can be synthesized e.g.
Code:
var item =
https://vimeo.com/658138372
As mentioned in the thread for the MediaServer skill, I've added the
possibility to launch Material on *Echo Show* devices from my nowPlaying
APL (Alexa Presentation Language) screen. Unfortunately, the Silk
Browser opens with a large and ugly address bar which has
https://vimeo.com/658138372
When you tap the cover-art image on a now-playing APL screen,
MediaServer now launches the *Material Skin* on the Echo Show's screen,
with full touch functionality. The address bar at the top can be swiped
upwards to hide it. The player targeted in MediaServer will
I made a short demo video showing the usefulness of the new touchscreen
controls in MediaServer on the Echo Show 8" Gen 2.
https://vimeo.com/657601012
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IN THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS, THE SKILL WILL PROVIDE ACCESS TO ALL
COMMANDS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR A SUBSCRIPTION, UNTIL JAN 1ST. ENJOY!
p.s. to existing subscribers, apologies for the fact that the amazon isp
process doesn't provide a means to credit or extend your subscription
accordingly.
MediaServer V5.2 is now live, with heavily-revised APL content for Echos
with screens.
Almost all commands now support *touchscreen* interaction giving
MediaServer *hybrid voice/touch control* for the best of both worlds
(touch is only available under subscription).
First off, the ImageList
raglencross wrote:
> Vote number 2 from a big fan of the Alexa Show. The more touch
> functionality the better to complement voice control, as we all have
> become very touch oriented when presented with a screen. Do you intend
> to make listing possible for other categories such as genre,
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/653170040
Now that I'm getting the hang of APL, I can easily capture user-input
from touchscreen Echo Show devices. See the above quick-and-dirty video,
which shows a beta copy of MediaServer (called 'Playground', so I can
test both the live and beta skills
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The NowPlaying screen display on Echo Show devices has been updated.
Until now, this used a standard Amazon APL template intended to show an
image and some plain text. It had the annoying characteristic of
aligning against the right side of the screen when the text was short,
meaning that
MediaServer used to treat folders in your favorites hierarchy as
unplayable items. However, I've just added a new feature that *queues
all the sub-favorites in a folder* when you ask to play/stream a
folder-of-favorites. You'll be told the name of the first child-item in
the folder that actually
I've created an 11 minute video that shows some of what MediaServer can
do these days when your Echo has a screen and coverart/metadata can be
displayed.
https://vimeo.com/651080656
Enjoy!
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There's a new sorting rule for favorites in order to match the new
behaviour in MediaServer. Nested folders are exhaustively recursed
before popping back up a level to the next item there. This provides
consistency up to 1000 items per nested folder and makes the numbering
100% predictable. When
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Version 5.0 of MediaServer is now live and automatically deployed when
you use the skill. The Amazon app will -not -list it as updated as there
were no changes to the voice model however, there are many, many
changes to the code:
* First off, most *spoken responses* are quite a bit
wimsnijd...@onetel.com wrote:
> whatever version i download the same result. i also tried to download
> through different machines. Same result.
I just downloaded a fresh m2p (m2p_buster_rpi-v253.img) and created an
SD for it. Selected 'Linux ARM' on the easy-setup page and transferred
setup.sh
wimsnijd...@onetel.com wrote:
> Doesn't work. Switched off Kaspersky and downloaded all versions of
> Linus script with the same result when running sudo. I pass on the worst
> case solution of the binary as i am not confident on how to set that
> up.
>
> thanks
What does your max2play run
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