(2017-10-25, 15:03)jingai Wrote: @vmantzar, that is normal.  The items in the Slots are merely examples -- the actual matching is done in the skill code itself against the current library contents in a 'fuzzy' manor.

(2017-10-25, 15:52)jingai Wrote: @vmantzar, there is no 'syncing' involved -- every time you make a request, it asks Kodi for the relevant library items.  Then it matches what Alexa 'heard' against your library.  If it finds any items that match confidently, it will choose the top match of those.

Bear in mind, this isn't and can't be perfect without a huge curated list of possible media titles (such as Amazon's catalog, which we can't access yet).  But it does generally do pretty well.

To help you diagnose what's going on, please tell me exactly what you are saying to Alexa, and provide the skill log relevant to that request.

• Voice feedback
  
• Alexa heard: "play song intro"
  

(2017-10-26, 04:19)jingai Wrote: Amazon prevents some slot values from reaching us.  'intro' might be one of those.  Try a song with a longer/different title and see if it works at all.  Unfortunately, until we can utilize Amazon's library catalog, we can't do anything about this though.

Stop works here just fine.  I'm not sure why it's not for you.  We use Amazon's built-in Intents for playback controls like this, so we don't need to specify them explicitly.

(2017-10-20, 03:05)jingai Wrote:

(2017-10-19, 12:40)tojo2503 Wrote: Hi there,

I'm thinking about getting an Amazon Echo... this looks GREAT to control Kodi. Awesome work.
I'm using Kodi as my TV Frontend (tvheadend client). Is there a possibility to control the TV part of Kodi with this? I couldn't find anything in the readme or does anyone know another method to switch channels in the TV part?

Thanks a lot!

No, sorry, this skill does not control the PVR aspects of Kodi.

(2017-10-21, 01:56)ajerazzor Wrote:

(2017-10-20, 23:51)Truegatorguy Wrote: Hello, all

After several failed attempts, I decided to start from scratch, but once again am getting the same "response/error" from Alexa... namely that she can't access the skill.  On the test page I'm getting "There was an error calling the remote endpoint, which returned HTTP 500 : Internal Server Error", with a notation reading there was a "parse error on line 1: there was an error c, expecting 'STRING', 'NUMBER', 'NULL', 'TRUE', 'FALSE',  '{', '[', got 'undefined'

My service request reads as follows:  

{
 "session": {
   "new": true,
   "sessionId": "SessionId.d9699957-ebd7-48bc-a900-7b3b921fe1ec",
   "application": {
     "applicationId": "amzn1.ask.skill.c8ff2462-6437-4771-8001-817c389f2d1b"
   },
   "attributes": {},
   "user": {
     "userId": "amzn1.ask.account.AE6CXQJ5IF62C5IQHGY2RC3UNO5UQW5MNN7FC2JC543FYDUONTS73LHV5DNCIT4CLEYC52XSLH3XVSHUMHOPY5V44WCXFAOAI3AXUHFWLIVOGCGDUJ2BFCMMKFY7REOGY353YKPFE3LQWZFWWUSBCXYBWDYSCRTLA3GUKWGJU2IIDFFY73Z5EVLJXZS3HFBJRDYB2GACFLH6YVA"
   }
 },
 "request": {
   "type": "IntentRequest",
   "requestId": "EdwRequestId.da4e56f6-43a3-4269-97c1-1e76f59058ca",
   "intent": {
     "name": "PlayMedia",
     "slots": {
       "Movie": {
         "name": "Movie",
         "value": "the godfather in movies"
       }
     }
   },
   "locale": "en-US",
   "timestamp": "2017-10-20T21:36:35Z"
 },
 "context": {
   "AudioPlayer": {
     "playerActivity": "IDLE"
   },
   "System": {
     "application": {
       "applicationId": "amzn1.ask.skill.c8ff2462-6437-4771-8001-817c389f2d1b"
     },
     "user": {
       "userId": "amzn1.ask.account.AE6CXQJ5IF62C5IQHGY2RC3UNO5UQW5MNN7FC2JC543FYDUONTS73LHV5DNCIT4CLEYC52XSLH3XVSHUMHOPY5V44WCXFAOAI3AXUHFWLIVOGCGDUJ2BFCMMKFY7REOGY353YKPFE3LQWZFWWUSBCXYBWDYSCRTLA3GUKWGJU2IIDFFY73Z5EVLJXZS3HFBJRDYB2GACFLH6YVA"
     },
     "device": {
       "supportedInterfaces": {}
     }
   }
 },
 "version": "1.0"

I've looked at the forums, and have seen variations on this issue come up, but if anyone can help point me in the right direction, I would GREATLY appreciate it!!  Many thanks!!

I just updated and getting the same thing - nope I take that back. I was using the text test and asked for "what new tv shows" and I got the error but if I ask for "what new television" it didnt, nor "what new movies" this returned results!

(2017-10-25, 18:10)vmantzar Wrote:

(2017-10-25, 15:52)jingai Wrote: @vmantzar, there is no 'syncing' involved -- every time you make a request, it asks Kodi for the relevant library items.  Then it matches what Alexa 'heard' against your library.  If it finds any items that match confidently, it will choose the top match of those.

Bear in mind, this isn't and can't be perfect without a huge curated list of possible media titles (such as Amazon's catalog, which we can't access yet).  But it does generally do pretty well.

To help you diagnose what's going on, please tell me exactly what you are saying to Alexa, and provide the skill log relevant to that request.

Thanks once again, when you say the skill log? Where do i get that from? Or you mean what Alexa understood (typed) when I said something to her

I asked her to play song intro, in the Alexa page i see below (i.e. it heard it correctly but played recently added songs), and in my library when I look at the tags I have a song tagged as Intro, so most of the time Alexa decides to play recently added songs, making the whole experience quite annoying tbh. Other thing I noticed is that Kodi does obey the command stop, so music never stops, I can pause/resume/next ect. but not stop. Looking at the Interaction Model Sample Utterances there are no playback control commands like stop, next, previous etc.

Playing recently added songs
Kodi
Playing recently added songs

• Voice feedback
  
• Alexa heard: "play song intro"
  

(2017-10-26, 20:06)sirbadger Wrote:

(2017-10-25, 18:10)vmantzar Wrote:

(2017-10-25, 15:52)jingai Wrote: @vmantzar, there is no 'syncing' involved -- every time you make a request, it asks Kodi for the relevant library items.  Then it matches what Alexa 'heard' against your library.  If it finds any items that match confidently, it will choose the top match of those.

Bear in mind, this isn't and can't be perfect without a huge curated list of possible media titles (such as Amazon's catalog, which we can't access yet).  But it does generally do pretty well.

To help you diagnose what's going on, please tell me exactly what you are saying to Alexa, and provide the skill log relevant to that request.

Thanks once again, when you say the skill log? Where do i get that from? Or you mean what Alexa understood (typed) when I said something to her

I asked her to play song intro, in the Alexa page i see below (i.e. it heard it correctly but played recently added songs), and in my library when I look at the tags I have a song tagged as Intro, so most of the time Alexa decides to play recently added songs, making the whole experience quite annoying tbh. Other thing I noticed is that Kodi does obey the command stop, so music never stops, I can pause/resume/next ect. but not stop. Looking at the Interaction Model Sample Utterances there are no playback control commands like stop, next, previous etc.

Playing recently added songs
Kodi
Playing recently added songs

• Voice feedback
  
• Alexa heard: "play song intro"
  

I've just set this up today and im having the same issue. i can say stop or try stop in the service simulator and it doesnt work :/

eta: stop is working now..

(2017-10-26, 12:41)sirbadger Wrote:

(2017-10-20, 03:05)jingai Wrote:

(2017-10-19, 12:40)tojo2503 Wrote: Hi there,

I'm thinking about getting an Amazon Echo... this looks GREAT to control Kodi. Awesome work.
I'm using Kodi as my TV Frontend (tvheadend client). Is there a possibility to control the TV part of Kodi with this? I couldn't find anything in the readme or does anyone know another method to switch channels in the TV part?

Thanks a lot!

No, sorry, this skill does not control the PVR aspects of Kodi.

Is this due to a limitation of what can be supported somewhere or have you chosen not to support it?