[Deprecated] Amazon Alexa Text to Speech (TTS) v0.6.2 - Direct Integration (USA, Canada, UK, Italy, Australia, & Brazil)

kahn-hubitat · October 10, 2020, 12:50pm

You can do queing yourself in the rule . Just do separate voice actions to each Alexa with a delay action between each in rule machine. I generally do either a single or the all action.

In addition, you could even include the daughters lesson zone but have an additional motion check to decide to use that one or not.

Televisi · October 16, 2020, 2:05pm

Thanks for such a great driver! Brilliant!

I noticed if I tried to put a special character on the 'text to speak' such as ampersand symbol; my echo dot will say "sorry, I'm having trouble accessing you simon says nice skills right now".

Perhaps a good idea to warn people not to use special character there?

just my 2 cents

tfort2 · October 25, 2020, 6:17pm

Need suggestion(s). To refresh Alexa cookie with AlexaCookieNodeJs, I have setup node in Raspberry Pi with crontab for pm2 restart AlexaCookie. In past I did not have issue. But after replacing my Raspberry Pi and reinstalling all three weeks before, I am facing issue with cookie refreshing. Today I got following message while trying to access at http://192.168.0.102:1081

I waited more than 10 minutes. Nothing happen. Than followed manual cookie updating through alexa.amazon.com and it was successfully.

Any suggestion on troubleshooting? Thanks

greg.veres · November 3, 2020, 9:35pm

HI, the only amazon alexa device I have in my house is an Ecobee thermostat that is an alexa speaker. I have installed this app but it doesn't show the ecobee as a device, it just shows "All Echos". Does anybody know why that might be? Looking at my device list in the Alexa app on my phone, I see that it has a section for sounds and it is listed under Echos and Alexa.

Has anyone else tried to get this app to talk through an Ecobee?

Thanks

ogiewon · November 3, 2020, 9:37pm

If you select the "All Echos" device, can you use that child device to send TTS to your Ecobee Thermostat?

greg.veres · November 3, 2020, 9:39pm

I did try that and got silence.
I did make sure that alexa could send sound to it. I said "Alexa, play music on ecobee" (ecobee is the name of the device) and it started playing CCR.
But when i try to send a text string to it on the devices page nothing happens.

ogiewon · November 3, 2020, 9:40pm

In an Alexa Routine in the Alexa App on your mobile phone, can you make it speak a message?

greg.veres · November 3, 2020, 9:41pm

I don't know how to do that, but I will look it up and give it a try.

greg.veres · November 3, 2020, 9:45pm

Yup, that worked. I was able to create a route in my iOS app and target the ecobee device and I sent it a customized text string.

I wonder if the list of devices that get returned has the ecobee as a type that you filter out? I will browse through your code....

aaiyar · November 3, 2020, 9:46pm

Open a Hubitat live log page.
Send a TTS message to the ecobee.
Cut and paste a screen shot of the log message here.

greg.veres · November 3, 2020, 9:49pm

The live log is pretty uninteresting:
app:732020-11-03 04:48:23.069 pm debugSending 'Hello' to 'All Echos'
dev:722020-11-03 04:48:23.040 pm debugSpeaking message = 'Hello'

There are some debug statements in the app code when it fetches the list of devices. I will try uncommenting those to see what gets returned.

ogiewon · November 3, 2020, 9:50pm

On line 261 of the Alexa TTS Manager App, you will see the following...

                    if (it.deviceFamily in ["ECHO", "ROOK", "KNIGHT", "THIRD_PARTY_AVS_SONOS_BOOTLEG", "TABLET"]) {

It sounds like your Ecobee deviceFamily is not in the list.

add in the follow like of code just before line 261 and then go through the discovery process again..

log.debug "${it.deviceFamily}"

Look in you Live Log (or Past Logs) and let me know what values are printed out from that line of debug code.

greg.veres · November 3, 2020, 10:01pm

I had already uncommented the debug statements that were already there. Here is the device record for the ecobee:

{
  accountName=Ecobee, 
  appDeviceList=[],
  capabilities=[
    AMAZON_MUSIC, TIMERS_AND_ALARMS, REMINDERS, TUNE_IN, GOLDFISH, I_HEART_RADIO, AUDIO_PLAYER, AUDIBLE, MUSIC_SKILL, SOUND_SETTINGS, SLEEP, DREAM_TRAINING, MICROPHONE, PAIR_BT_SINK, DEREGISTER_DEVICE, CHANGE_NAME, DIALOG_INTERFACE_VERSION, PERSISTENT_CONNECTION, SUPPORTS_CONNECTED_HOME_CLOUD_ONLY, KINDLE_BOOKS, CUSTOM_ALARM_TONE, VOLUME_SETTING
  ],
  charging=null,
  clusterMembers=[],
  deviceAccountId=A0902409SZ1Q17CLBTC0,
  deviceFamily=UNKNOWN,
  deviceOwnerCustomerId=A1091GFLY2I2GM,
  deviceType=A2X8WT9JELC577,
  deviceTypeFriendlyName=ecobee SmartThermostat with voice control,
  essid=null,
  language=null,
  macAddress=null,
  online=true,
  parentClusters=[],
  postalCode=null,
  registrationId=null,
  remainingBatteryLevel=null,
  serialNumber=XXXXXX,
  softwareVersion=4006025
}

unfortunately, the device family is "UNKNOWN", which doesn't really help much!

I wonder if searching the capabilities for something like AUDIO_PLAYER might be a better approach. Looking through the capabilities for the Ecobee, I can't see another capability that might indicate the TTS capability. But probably if it is an Audio player, then it would be a suitable target.

I am going to modify my local code to give it a try.

ogiewon · November 3, 2020, 10:03pm

Try adding "UNKNOWN" to the following line and see it it works or not... Can't hurt to try.

                    if (it.deviceFamily in ["ECHO", "ROOK", "KNIGHT", "THIRD_PARTY_AVS_SONOS_BOOTLEG", "TABLET", "UNKNOWN"]) {

greg.veres · November 3, 2020, 10:11pm

Success! Once the code was changed to add Ecobee, I was able to successfully send it a message to speak. This is awesome! thank you for your work on the app and helping me getting it going.

BTW, I added this code (with a couple of lines for context):

                    if (it.deviceFamily == "THIRD_PARTY_AVS_MEDIA_DISPLAY" && it.capabilities.contains("AUDIBLE")) {
                        validDevices << it.accountName
                    }
                    if (it.deviceFamily == "UNKNOWN" && it.capabilities.contains("AUDIO_PLAYER")) {
                        validDevices << it.accountName
                    }

ogiewon · November 4, 2020, 12:34pm

Excellent!

@greg.veres - thank you for your contribution! I have added your changes to the Alexa TTS MAnager App code in my GitHub repository.

kahn-hubitat · November 4, 2020, 4:39pm

and mine here.. oglewon. not sure if you added my code to support volume setting or not.. the code is here.

i also change the if's just added a little as they are mutually exclusive ie

if (it.deviceFamily in ["ECHO", "ROOK", "KNIGHT", "THIRD_PARTY_AVS_SONOS_BOOTLEG", "TABLET"]) {
//log.debug "${it.accountName} is valid"
validDevices << it.accountName
}
else if (it.deviceFamily == "THIRD_PARTY_AVS_MEDIA_DISPLAY" && it.capabilities.contains("AUDIBLE")) {
validDevices << it.accountName
}
else if (it.deviceFamily == "UNKNOWN" && it.capabilities.contains("AUDIO_PLAYER")) {
validDevices << it.accountName
}

ogiewon · November 4, 2020, 4:59pm

yep, I still have it on my to-do list. Sorry for the delay... I have been distracted with other things...

kahn-hubitat · November 4, 2020, 5:01pm

NP. i have it hosted for now

Kjelle · November 4, 2020, 6:25pm

@ogiewon Tjoho! It works! Thank you very much!