(2016-12-29, 16:29)Eamonn3 Wrote: Hi,

Awesome skill! I can't wait to get it working properly.

I managed to get this up and running to some extent. I'm happy that the Echo Dot communicates to my Kodi because I can ask it to move left, select, go back and Kodi behaves as commanded. But when I ask Alexa to tell Kodi to play a random movie, play Die Hard, or play season 1, episode 1 of Westworld it does nothing. Any ideas? I'm stumped.

When I ask it to play Deadpool in the Amazon test area I get:

{
"version": "1.0",
"response": {
"reprompt": {
"outputSpeech": {
"type": "PlainText",
"text": " "
}
},
"shouldEndSession": true
},
"sessionAttributes": {}
}

When I ask it to play season 1 episode 1 of Westworld I get:

"version": "1.0",
"response": {
"outputSpeech": {
"type": "PlainText",
"text": "Playback is stopped."
},
"card": {
"content": "Playback is stopped.",
"title": "Time left on currently playing item",
"type": "Simple"
},
"reprompt": {
"outputSpeech": {
"type": "PlainText",
"text": " "
}
},
"shouldEndSession": true
},
"sessionAttributes": {}
}

Both are defined in the slots. I'm using Exodus through the Simplicity build for Kodi. Is there a specific addon program I need to get the rest of the Skill to work on Kodi?

(2016-12-29, 18:26)Eamonn3 Wrote:

(2016-12-29, 16:35)danmedhurst Wrote: I got mine working, i had set up the skill to English (US).. changing it to English (UK) works perfectly

(2016-12-29, 16:36)shteve Wrote: Can you play any of your own local content? I very much doubt you'll get much help here getting it to work via a piracy addon.

(2016-12-29, 16:38)jingai Wrote: Exodus is a banned addon and I will not provide support for it.

I didn't realise Exodus was a banned app, and if it is then my apologies for mentioning it. Not supporting it is understandable if it is classed as pirate software. Boo-erns to me.
I haven't tried this skill with local content because I don't have anything stored locally. I don't see the point when a 360MB internet connection costs me 40 euro per month. So all my entertainment content is streamed online.
My understanding of this skill might have been thwarted from the start then. So just to clarify, can you tell me if this statement is correct: This Skill is not suitable for streaming online content through Kodi, and needs to be used with locally stored content... Even if it is from a legal paid Addon service like FilmOn, Netflix or iVue?

(2016-12-31, 20:59)m0ngr31 Wrote: Big update coming soon. Will have German translation, session management (keep navigating without having to invoke the session every time and eventually confirmations on lower percentage hits), and eventually full support for streaming audio from your library to your Echo:

(2017-01-01, 16:48)helmhound Wrote: First off let me thank m0ngr31. This is Friggin AWESOME.
I got it running yesterday with LAMBDA on the AWS servers.

My question for anyone that knows is, how do I go about updating the existing LAMBDA function?
For testing I decided to use a changing public IP address... I want to change the IP to a DDNS address using https://www.dynu.com/ or whatnot.

Is there a simple way to update my EXISTING Lambda function?

TIA

(2017-01-01, 14:03)ConstantSphere Wrote: I'm now having trouble with "Alexa, ask the media centre to play random songs" which sits doing nothing for 30 seconds then says it's starting party mode but nothing happens. Looking in the Kodi log files I found...

Code:

10:16:14 T:139804961732352   ERROR: WebServer: Stopped uploading post since it exceeded size limitations
10:16:14 T:139804961732352   ERROR: Previous line repeats 65 times.
10:16:14 T:139804961732352   ERROR: JSONRPC: Failed to parse '{"params": {"item": [{"songid": 34464}, {"songid": 36302}, {"...

looking into the code, it looks like it tried to get all of my 5000+ songs and form them into a single JSONRPC request which timed out. I tried to modify the code (def alexa_party_play(slots): in wsgi.py) to use the partymode RPC call mentioned in the post below

(2017-01-02, 12:56)nsviper Wrote: @m0ngr31 - Question re playlists

Been testing the skill via the AWS page to try and get it to play audio playlists.

Inside Kodi, if you create a playlist and save it, it saves it under playlists\music\NameOfPlaylist.m3u (KODI automatically puts the m3u extension on the file)

However, using the command "Ask Kodi to play music playlist NameOfPlaylist" fails. If i rename the playlist file and remove the m3u (via putty), then the "ask" command works (although the playlist doesn't actually start playing on Kodi)