It appears that Amazon has made some changes and most of the commands for my Echo dots, specifically in webcore, and the Echo dot device page, are not functioning anymore. Are others having this problem or do I need to do more troubleshooting?
As an example, if I am playing an Amazon music playlist, the STOP button on the device page will not turn if off. Neither will a STOP command issued from webcore. However, a voiceCmdAsText('stop') does work.
I have used the STOP command in webcore for a few years now.
Yup. Something broke.
Sending text announcements still works. For example, I announce when someone unlocks my front door.
Stopping a playlist that is playing does NOT work.
Changing volume while the playlist is playing DOES work.
I don't use my Echo devices for any type of music playback, so this is not much of any issue for me, but needless to say things are broken.
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Another command that I have used frequently, Next Track, does not work.
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Other commands, like "Play Joke" seem to work.
So far, it seems that controlling music using any music service linked to your Alexa/Echo devices no longer works.
Correct. But, the voiceCmdAsText seems to be working as expected.
voiceCmdAsText('stop')
voiceCmdAsText('next')
Unfortunately it was only a matter of time until Amazon broke things.
Hopefully @tonesto7 can have a look and figure out what might be going on.
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Try the “Pause” command.
Seems to still work for me.
Song data is kaput. I used that info the most.
voiceCmdAsText('what song is this') announces that information on the dot, but I need to somehow capture that data.
