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also, when i asked alexa play some Album - it starts and played only one song and stopped. After i asked her to play next one - it she told that could not access Emby skill. Whats wrong? 

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It doesnt work for me (tested on 2 devices: echo dot, and Sonos ONE)

I asked Alexa: ask m.b. home play the playlist {playlist}

 

and got : anything else 

 

another answer: no such playlist..

 

Can this be checked, pls ? 

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and btw: i managed to "Begin m.b. home" on both devices. but after

 

both of them could not recognize any playlist, but can start playing album.

 

Also, after - via echo i can control stop/play/pause, but not via sonos - it simply telling - Could not connect to youe emby skill. 

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Angelblue05

Yes. Thanks for your patience. I will definitely fix this, but can you let me know of an example of the playlist name you are trying to play? This works for me at the moment.

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Thanks. 

I tried these:

 

- me

- my

- test

- ukrainian

- furniture

 

If you need access to my emby server - please let me know and i will grant it. Currently it my test server - so you can do what ever you need. 

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HI, 

 

now it can pickup playlist - which is great. But...

 

When im asking Alexa to play any Album - it plays it on echo device - which is expected.

When im asking to play Playlist - Alexa asks on which player. It simply doesnt want to play on the same echo device(or any echo device), but can play on another player like browser, tv, etc. 

 

I think - the last thats not expected and incorrect behaviour. Can this be fixed as well, please.

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didnt know that. Thanks for info.

 

I'm really keen to see this feature, maybe most useful if you have a big music collection. 

 

What about issue with Sonos : Play/Stop/Next/etc ? Is this the same issue as described in FAQ for MyMedia (https://www.mymediaalexa.com/) - Sonos doesnt support all player API ? or this is another bug that can be resolved ? 

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Angelblue05

For the Sonos, I'd have to see the request in log. If you can try it and tell me the time you tried it at. I will check the logs and keep you posted on if it can be resolved.

 

I will add support for the playlist to be played directly on the echo and let you know when it's ready to be tested.

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Thanks. 

I tried these:

 

- me

- my

- test

- ukrainian

- furniture

 

If you need access to my emby server - please let me know and i will grant it. Currently it my test server - so you can do what ever you need. 

 

@@t1mota

 

Hello

 

I am new to emby/alexa integration and see that you have already done a significant progress !

Can you summarize what works and what does now please?

 

In my case, I've setup SSL on my emby server on Ubuntu and trying to play *any* song without success.

 

What voice commands do you use?

 

Thx

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@@chudak

 

The wiki

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Alexa

 

Did you setup your server with SSL after linking up your Emby account to Alexa? Can you try to redo the account linking process to ensure it has the correct server information saved? In the Alexa app > Skills > Emby home > Disable/Enable. 

 

Let me know if that works for you. If not, make a request to play and let me know the time of your attempt. I will check the logs, thank you!

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Angelblue05

Can you guys test it?

 

Play the playlist {title}. This time, it should let you select "this player".

 

I have noticed that if I say Play the playlist {title} on this player, it doesn't get recognized well. Is this your experience as well? Keep me posted, thanks.

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@@chudak

 

The wiki

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Alexa

 

Did you setup your server with SSL after linking up your Emby account to Alexa? Can you try to redo the account linking process to ensure it has the correct server information saved? In the Alexa app > Skills > Emby home > Disable/Enable. 

 

Let me know if that works for you. If not, make a request to play and let me know the time of your attempt. I will check the logs, thank you!

 

 

I think I was able to play some songs, time range 3:30 - 4:00 PST

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Can you guys test it?

 

Play the playlist {title}. This time, it should let you select "this player".

 

I have noticed that if I say Play the playlist {title} on this player, it doesn't get recognized well. Is this your experience as well? Keep me posted, thanks.

 

 

The way it kinda works for me:

 

Alexa enable m.b.

M.b. enabled, hi there

Play the playlist 'the Beatles'

Select the number 1, 2 ...

1 and it plays

next and previous works fine at this point

 

I have a library of mix of different songs, some  Russian, French etc. (I assume Alexa + m.b. "don't understand" Russian and French, correct?  )

 

I suspect, that since my SSL setup works, I will need to spend some time to create a nice library with good meta data and try again.

 

Pls share any suggestions.

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feerlessleadr

Can you guys test it?

 

Play the playlist {title}. This time, it should let you select "this player".

 

I have noticed that if I say Play the playlist {title} on this player, it doesn't get recognized well. Is this your experience as well? Keep me posted, thanks.

 I just tested this and it seems to be working great. 

 

One question, is it possible to set a default player for this type of action? You are correct that when I say Play/Shuffle the playlist [playlist name] on this device, it doesn't really work. It then proceeds to list out all of the available devices (which are quite a few).

 

Minor annoyance, but figured i'd mention.

 

Thanks

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Can you guys test it?

 

Play the playlist {title}. This time, it should let you select "this player".

 

I have noticed that if I say Play the playlist {title} on this player, it doesn't get recognized well. Is this your experience as well? Keep me posted, thanks.

 

 

When it works it's cool, but when it gets to non-English artist/language it's tough.

 

(Maybe I can train Alexa to be more smart as well.)

 

I think as far as Emby goes, it's be cool to improve workflow and also search capabilities with Alexa.

 

One example, when I say "Enable e.b." and then say "pay the playlist {playlist}", it'd be very useful if you say just "Play from Music {anything}" and Emby finds everything in the Music library.

 

Is it possible ?

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Can you guys test it?

 

Play the playlist {title}. This time, it should let you select "this player".

 

I have noticed that if I say Play the playlist {title} on this player, it doesn't get recognized well. Is this your experience as well? Keep me posted, thanks.

 

@Angelblue05

 

This is a list of my playlists, marked with & the ones I was able to play.

(I added artists etc meta data to all)

 

Others never found.

What's interesting that when I say "list the new playlists", I get all of them.  But Emby can't fund them fro playing!

 

Aleksandr Rozenbaum.m3u
alla pugacheva.m3u
* French Music.m3u
Garik Sukachev.m3u
joe dassin.m3u
Okudjava.m3u
Semyon Slepakov.m3u
* Sparks.m3u
Sukachev.m3u
* The Beatles.m3u
Timur Shaov.m3u
* Uma Turman.m3u
Varvara Vizbor.m3u
* vysotsky.m3u
Zaz.m3u
 
Maybe you can see more info in your logs.
 
1.  the only way to start playing is "alexa enable m.b. home"/"play the playlist {}"
2.  while playing and then saying "alexa play playlist {}" never works
3.  "select player to send it to..." unclear why it prompts all the time and annoying 
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TulsaTV

Set up SSL today for Emby server after lots of problems getting Plex to consistently play music on Alexa. Have been able to create a playlist on Emby and play it on Alexa. What I really need to be able to do is ask Alexa to shuffle a large Emby playlist. Is this yet possible?

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Angelblue05

No it is not but I’ll make sure to add it to the list of functionalities to add. I am in the process of rewriting the model, thanks for your patience :-)

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