500 usually means it canot reach some page.. looks like you are trying to a phone which may have extra steps.. like mentioned can you get it to work with a single echo.
also not sure what you are doing as your log messages don't look normal.. here are mine.. have your tried just the speak option from the device panel for the echo device?
looks like your using echo speaks not "Alexa tts"?
I use alexa tts sorry if i misled you ,,, i use this as it is initially easier to setup and you can copy the cookie from the web for your alexa account to get started.. i do have a nodejs job on my qnap server to automatically refresh the cookie.
once you get it set up you dont need any special switches both the built in notification app and rule machine motifications or any system notifications has a speech option so send any messages you want.. however, there are issues trying to send to multiple alexas at once.. amazon limits it.. if you need that use the "all alexa" device which gets around it.
here are what logs look like using the notifications
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Thanks guys.. I know when I am beaten. Just ordered a cheap Sonos one speaker.
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I've been trying to get this to work for a couple evenings now with no luck. It's non-functioning. Oh well. Hopefully tonesto comes up with something soon
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Do you need internet for the TTS to work with the Symfonisk speaker? I assume they are wi-fi right?
Thanks
The first time a TTS phrase is used, the hub fetches it from the cloud. But then it remains on the hub and subsequent uses of the phrase can be all local.
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thanks for that details!!
I'm trying to setup a system for my sister and she is concerned that the internet may be down- causing echo dots to be useless. These speakers are 4x the cost of an echo dot so I'm thinking you have 1 of these centrally located and then dots everywhere else...
The question is whether anyone has come up with a solution to ensure they are all local...for example on bootup run a webcore or something and speak all the possible sayings? ...could it be that simple ?
Yes.
No.
Here's the only fully local TTS solution that currently integrates with Hubitat.
Thanks for that quick answer...I had been studying that ...and that seems probably do-able....
but being an engineer ....... why wouldn't forcing each phrase to be spoken on the IKEA after boot up (of course assuming internet active at that point) not work? Does it only cache the LAST spoken phrase?
Thx...do really appreciate the help : )
No need to re-run all of your TTS commands during a reboot of the Hub. The hub caches the audio files locally on its internal eMMC storage. So, as long as your TTS text is static for each announcement (i.e. do not embed a timestamp, date, or a value like temperature), the audio clips will all get cached locally.
Again, this only works using the Hub's built-in TTS engine with Sonos speakers.
This thread's solution, just like Echo Speaks, relies on the Amazon Cloud for all TTS announcements.
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i have had echo's in 3 different locations for years and really never had an issue with missing notifications due to internet being down.. if it is down there are a lot more pressing issues.. you area eally looking for a problem waiting to happen.
Is Alexa TTS working? My Alexa stopped working since last two weeks. I getting refresh cookies notifications . Refreshed manually but after few hours, stopped working again.
Mine is working
Running on my windows 10 desktop computer
Thanks
As is mine on the echos still connected.
Side note... never use the "logout all devices" option like i did when someone was trying to hack my amazon account.All alexas disconnect and need to manually be joined. If you have alexas in multiple houses like me you will have to wait till u physically are back in that location to rejoin them.
Thank you
Suddenly today speech is working to individual devices but to "all alexas" is failing. No errors in the logs ...
Anyone else who is still using this?
None of mine is working since yesterday. Refresh cookies messages coming
Again Alexa TTS is not working. Do you have any issue?
yes i gave up and switched over to using echo speaks.. 2 weeks ago.
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