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Alexa Help

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 2:40 am
by gankmore
New to Serviio, wonderful product and community. I'm on Servioo pro, I have Alexa setup, got my portforwarding and firewall configured, got logged in, but Alexa can't find any songs in my library. I'm using Serviio just for audio files. Anyone have thoughts on what to try? I can see my library in mediabrowser and there's tons of stuff there.

"I'm sorry I didn't find X" is all I get even when I call out the name of a specific song.

I've seen some good threads on getting Alexa to use Serviio to play videos on specific devices, and I know there are some limitations on Alexa for music from Serviio, and in many way that defeats the purpose of why I selected Serviio in the first place, because of the Alexa integration.

two sets of questions:

1. has any one had luck playing music at all? What can you share? Any advice for me on troubleshooting?
2. are there future development plans around alexa integration? It would be really nice to be able to access my whole library through voice commands while making dinner.

Thanks for reading any my apologies if this is posted in the wrong place.

Re: Alexa Help

PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:33 pm
by zip
Are you using "Listen to" rather than "play" word? "Play" looks for video files, "listen to" for audio.

Also, there is a predefined list of albums / artist / song names in the skill - Alexa doesn't support listening to any words, it needs to be a known set. SO perhaps your song names are not in the list (there are about 10000).