sota wrote: > If it has to be two words and unique, perhaps Squeeze Player?
A good suggestion, except that the word 'player' is fairly important in command connecting words so can't be used on that basis. For example, you can't have; 'Alexa, ask squeeze player to play Adele on player Squeezebox One' (where 'Squeezebox One' is the actual name of the SB device). You could get around this with; 'Alexa, ask squeeze player to play Adele on Squeezebox One' 'Alexa, ask squeeze player to play Adele on device Squeezebox One' But in constructing command phrases, you need to consider lots of alternatives for natural language and I feel people would be inclined to use the term 'player' when wanting to refer to discreet devices, zones and the like, Remember as well, technically, we're asking Alexa to ask SqueezeServer/LMS to ask a Squeezebox device to do something. (Chinese whispers, anyone?). I'd like to retain that logical flow however, as I feel it makes sense to the user. This is a great discussion. Does anyone know the protocol for setting up an announce thread on here, in particular for pre-production/beta plug-ins? I think we could usefully move the discussion to a dedicated thread. Another point I want to discuss is this: I think I've figured out a way to short-circuit a lot of this and just say things like "Alexa, play Adele" or "Alexa , Pause". Provided the user has preciously invoked the <whatever it ends up being called Squeezebox skill>, that should just work and issue the commands to the previously selected squeezebox device. It's a bit of a hack though and I'm wondering about expending effort on something that might get rejected at certification. Also, and not to raise too many hopes, but I _think_ I've also figured out a way to turn an echo into a squeezebox. While that's some way off in terms of planning and development effort, imagine what you could do with a few echos connected to your LMS as players! New lease of life indeed! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ meep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12744 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106149 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
