Echo Speaks / Heroku end anxiety support group. See one solution below. πŸ™‚

He's mentioned it eventually but he has a couple of other things that take priority.

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I am still using GitHub - TonyFleisher/echo-speaks-server at docker-enablement which works. Any reason to switch to something else?

No.

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I followed all of the instructions and I can’t figure out why it’s not recording the IP address. I can see the login page when I go to that ip:8091 address.

Is there anyway to manually change this address?

Check this guide which covers how to set the IP when running with docker: [GUIDE] Echo Speaks Server on Docker (and alternates)

The second post has some alternate install methods as well, and a link to this post which shows how to set the IP when running without docker (via pm2): [RELEASE] Echo Speaks V4 - #1229 by jtp10181

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@jtp10181 any chance I can leverage this same app to pull in an Echo Glow?

It might see it, not sure what you would be able to do with it though.

From the bottom of the Amazon link you posted:

Echo Glow does not contain microphones or speakers.

I agree with Jeff (@jtp10181). Hard to see how such a device could be used by Echo Speaks.

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Sorry, yes I know it doesn't have any mic/speaker but was wondering if it had similar API endpoints, etc for being able to control the lights and followed the Echo pattern of integrations. Apologies if that was a dumb assumption :slight_smile:

All this integration can do is speak.

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gotcha, thanks sir!

i noticed today that echo speaks 4.2.4.0 was released about 3 weeks ago. i tried to update via hubitat package manager but it fails. is it okay to install 4.2.4.0? i don't know what has changed, where can i see release notes? should i manually install it, how would i do that? currently i am paying heroku but would love to stop paying.

It updated fine for me. Believe it was cleanup and adding a few new Echo devices. I have run the local login server on a Raspberry Pi 4b for almost a year and a half (since Heroku announced it would charge), has always been solid for me.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tonesto7/echo-speaks/master/CHANGELOG.md

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I've started seeing this in my logs every 1/2 hour for one of my Echo devices.

getPlaybackState | 400 Error | Msg: status code: 400, reason phrase: Bad Request

It's a Gen4 Echo Dot without clock. I have various lines commented in the app and device code per the posts below, but I am still seeing the error. Not sure when this started again at this point.

Anyone else seeing this error again? Anyone have a current fix?

I think there was an official update for the app pushed out to remove the unsupported features. Are you running the current version?

Pretty sure I am.

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Am I missing something here? Was there an update released not via HPM?

That is current, you can always run a repair in HPM if you want to be sure it is the original code. I am not getting any errors and I don't think I have patched this latest version at all. :person_shrugging:

OK. I'll give that a shot. What's weird is that this was all working fine without any errors for ages. Then all of a sudden, I'm seeing them for just this one device.

Could also try power cycling that device.

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Good idea. Going to try that next. The repair of Echo Speaks did nothing. I got 2 of those errors right after.