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RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - jingai - 2017-06-06

@estratosphere, is it safe to assume that the Invocation Name you chose when you built the skill on Amazon's site is in fact "kodi player"?

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - jingai - 2017-06-07

Kodi-Alexa 2.6.4 is up. Changes:

  1. General speed-up processing results from Kodi
  2. New Intents to recommend media (requires script.skin.helper.widgets), such as:
    • Alexa, ask Kodi to recommend a movie
    • Alexa, ask Kodi to suggest a tv show
    • Alexa, ask Kodi to recommend an episode
    • Alexa, ask Kodi to suggest an artist
    • Alexa, ask Kodi to recommend an album
  3. New options in kodi.config to limit results when asking about new movies and/or episodes
    • Setting either to a lower number will help limit results to those you've recently added to your library
  4. All navigation commands now leave the session open
  5. All non-playback library queries now leave the session open, if it was already open

For #4, the idea is that most navigation commands are likely to be followed up with more, such as:

Code:
Alexa, ask Kodi to go up
go up
go up
select

For #5, this enables having a "conversation" with the skill before deciding on something to play. Example #1:

Code:
< "Alexa, open Kodi"
> "Welcome to the Kodi skill"
< "What new movies do we have?"
> "You have movie1, movie2, movie3, ..."
< "Do we have any new episodes of Sherlock?"
> "There are no new episodes of Sherlock"
< "Do we have any new shows?"
> "You have new episodes of show1, show2, show3, ..."
< "Play the next episode of show2"

Example #2:

Code:
< "Alexa, open Kodi"
> "Welcome to the Kodi skill"
< "Recommend a movie"
> "How about the movie Ghostbusters?"
< "No"
> "How about the movie Back to the Future?"
> "Sure"

As usual, when you're done with a session, you can stop her from listening with the usual stop commands (stop, cancel, etc). Any request that results in media playback will automatically end the session.

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - bill_orange - 2017-06-07

I installed the update without incident. However when I try 'Alexa, ask kodi media to play the latest album", I get 'there was a problem with the requested skills response". All the old features work fine.

Here's cloudwatch:

START RequestId: 579892b5-4b90-11e7-889f-4fc69b5fc464 Version: $LATEST

14:48:17
Stopping playback

14:48:17
Sending request to http://orangecaweather.duckdns.org:8080/jsonrpc from device amzn1.ask.device.redacted
14:48:18
Sending request to http://orangecaweather.duckdns.org:8080/jsonrpc from device amzn1.ask.device.redacted14:48:18
[INFO] 2017-06-07T14:48:18.679Z 579892b5-4b90-11e7-889f-4fc69b5fc464 72.21.217.135 - - [07/Jun/2017:14:48:18 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 239 "" "Apache-HttpClient/4.5.x (Java/1.8.0_112)" 0/948.23

14:48:18
END RequestId: 579892b5-4b90-11e7-889f-4fc69b5fc464

14:48:18
REPORT RequestId: 579892b5-4b90-11e7-889f-4fc69b5fc464 Duration: 949.16 ms Billed Duration: 1000 ms Memory Size: 512 MB Max Memory Used: 53 MB

14:48:27
START RequestId: 5d89b94f-4b90-11e7-9133-e55a5d87dc21 Version: $LATEST

14:48:27
Playing latest album by None

14:48:27
[2017-06-07 14:48:27,743] ERROR in c:\users\william\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-_pp9vb\Flask\flask\app: Exception on / [POST]

14:48:27
Traceback (most recent call last):

14:48:27
File "c:\users\william\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-_pp9vb\Flask\flask\app.py", line 1982, in wsgi_app

14:48:27
File "c:\users\william\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-_pp9vb\Flask\flask\app.py", line 1614, in full_dispatch_request

14:48:27
File "c:\users\william\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-_pp9vb\Flask\flask\app.py", line 1517, in handle_user_exception

14:48:27
File "c:\users\william\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-_pp9vb\Flask\flask\app.py", line 1612, in full_dispatch_request

14:48:27
File "c:\users\william\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-_pp9vb\Flask\flask\app.py", line 1598, in dispatch_request

14:48:27
File "c:\users\william\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-_pp9vb\flask-ask\flask_ask\core.py", line 563, in _flask_view_func

14:48:27
File "/var/task/alexa.py", line 691, in alexa_listen_latest_album

14:48:27
artist_id, artist_label = kodi.FindArtist(Artist)

14:48:27
File "/var/task/kodi_voice/kodi.py", line 446, in FindArtist

14:48:27
print 'Searching for artist "%s"' % (heard_search.encode("utf-8"))

14:48:27
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode'

14:48:27
[INFO] 2017-06-07T14:48:27.744Z 5d89b94f-4b90-11e7-9133-e55a5d87dc21 72.21.217.135 - - [07/Jun/2017:14:48:27 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 500 291 "" "Apache-HttpClient/4.5.x (Java/1.8.0_112)" 0/117.551

14:48:27
END RequestId: 5d89b94f-4b90-11e7-9133-e55a5d87dc21

14:48:27
REPORT RequestId: 5d89b94f-4b90-11e7-9133-e55a5d87dc21 Duration: 118.12 ms Billed Duration: 200 ms Memory Size: 512 MB Max Memory Used: 53 MB

14:48:27
START RequestId: 5dcb55e4-4b90-11e7-855b-454c87c6bb8e Version: $LATEST

14:48:28
[INFO] 2017-06-07T14:48:28.33Z 5dcb55e4-4b90-11e7-855b-454c87c6bb8e 72.21.217.135 - - [07/Jun/2017:14:48:28 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "" "Apache-HttpClient/4.5.x (Java/1.8.0_112)" 0/59.354

14:48:28
END RequestId: 5dcb55e4-4b90-11e7-855b-454c87c6bb8e

14:48:28
REPORT RequestId: 5dcb55e4-4b90-11e7-855b-454c87c6bb8e Duration: 59.86 ms Billed Duration: 100 ms Memory Size: 512 MB Max Memory Used: 53 MB
No newer events found at the moment. Retry.

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - jingai - 2017-06-07

You have to specify an artist, e.g., "Listen to the latest album by radiohead."

Sent from my D5803

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - bill_orange - 2017-06-07

Yup, that works.

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - jingai - 2017-06-07

If you just want latest music in general, say "play recently added music" or a variation of that.

Sent from my D5803

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - Truegatorguy - 2017-06-09

I've hit a wall here several times, the most recent when initializing Zappa.
I had this set up before, but (clearly) missed something so it didn't work. Went back and reran everything, and of course it tells me that all the requirements are previously met. So, as I said, when I get to running Zappa I get this

(venv) C:\Users\Rod\Downloads\Echo\kodi-alexa-master>Zappa init
Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"'

Any push in the right directions would be GREATLY appreciated!

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - estratosphere - 2017-06-09

(2017-06-06, 22:41)jingai Wrote: @estratosphere, is it safe to assume that the Invocation Name you chose when you built the skill on Amazon's site is in fact "kodi player"?

hi yes I used "Cody Player" as my invocation name. I can't figure out why it's not working - everything is setup exactly as per instructions

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - estratosphere - 2017-06-09

(2017-06-09, 21:30)estratosphere Wrote:
(2017-06-06, 22:41)jingai Wrote: @estratosphere, is it safe to assume that the Invocation Name you chose when you built the skill on Amazon's site is in fact "kodi player"?

hi yes I used "Cody Player" as my invocation name. I can't figure out why it's not working - everything is setup exactly as per instructions

Have doubled checked web server is working fine. Changed name and invocation names too and still the same problem. Alexa just doesn't understand

Getting the device IDs for multiple echo's - davenest - 2017-06-10

I am trying to get the skill to work with second echo

but get this in log:



[2017-06-11 01:49:00,497] ERROR in c:\users\dave\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-h_ylev\Flask\flask\app: Exception on / [POST]
[1497145740498] Traceback (most recent call last):
[1497145740498] File "c:\users\dave\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-h_ylev\Flask\flask\app.py", line 1982, in wsgi_app
[1497145740498] File "c:\users\dave\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-h_ylev\Flask\flask\app.py", line 1614, in full_dispatch_request
[1497145740498] File "c:\users\dave\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-h_ylev\Flask\flask\app.py", line 1517, in handle_user_exception
[1497145740498] File "c:\users\dave\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-h_ylev\Flask\flask\app.py", line 1612, in full_dispatch_request
[1497145740498] File "c:\users\dave\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-h_ylev\Flask\flask\app.py", line 1598, in dispatch_request
[1497145740498] File "c:\users\dave\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-h_ylev\flask-ask\flask_ask\core.py", line 604, in _flask_view_func
[1497145740498] File "c:\users\dave\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-h_ylev\flask-ask\flask_ask\core.py", line 623, in _map_intent_to_view_func
[1497145740498] NotImplementedError: Intent "Stop" not found and no default intent specified.
[1497145740503] [INFO] 2017-06-11T01:49:00.498Z 23c8982c-4e48-11e7-8f8b-1bec255e7c45 72.21.217.66 - - [11/Jun/2017:01:49:00 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 500 291 "" "Apache-HttpClient/4.5.x (Java/1.8.0_112)" 0/164.084
[1497145740918] [INFO] 2017-06-11T01:49:00.918Z 24094b7e-4e48-11e7-ac9f-8fcbf4195f5d 72.21.217.66 - - [11/Jun/2017:01:49:00 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "" "Apache-HttpClient/4.5.x (Java/1.8.0_112)" 0/154.192

anyone have any ideas?

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - Truegatorguy - 2017-06-10

(2017-06-09, 15:51)Truegatorguy Wrote: I've hit a wall here several times, the most recent when initializing Zappa.
I had this set up before, but (clearly) missed something so it didn't work. Went back and reran everything, and of course it tells me that all the requirements are previously met. So, as I said, when I get to running Zappa I get this

(venv) C:\Users\Rod\Downloads\Echo\kodi-alexa-master>Zappa init
Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"'

Any push in the right directions would be GREATLY appreciated!

So, today I decided to rerun everything from the start. Got up to the Zappa init screen and this time I got this response

(venv) C:\Users\Rod\Downloads\echo\kodi-alexa-master>zappa deploy dev
Calling deploy for stage dev..
Creating kodi-alexa-mast-dev-ZappaLambdaExecutionRole IAM Role..
Error: Failed to manage IAM roles!

Better than I was yesterday, but obviously another wall. Went back and checked the boxes ticked for IAM roles, but didn't see anything amiss. Anyone have any ideas? Thank you

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - radiohe4d - 2017-06-10

I've been trying all day to get this new version of the skill up and running. I've had the older version running flawlessly for months now.

I've followed the instructions very carefully and have got through without any errors. But unfortunately when i try to test my lambda function using the "Alexa Start Function" test in the AWS Lambda section, it returns a value of 'null' but says that the function completes successfully.

The older version replies with the json that alexa uses when you 'Open Kodi', i assume the new version should have this same result.

* I installed everything using Ubuntu Server 17 with Python 2.7.
* I can reach my instance of kodi from the internet.
* The kodi.config file has been setup with my details.
* The user and role have been setup as per the guide.
* The skill has been created in the same way as the guide.

I tried removing all changes and installs and starting again, but with the same results.

If anyone could point me in the right direction i would greatly appreciate it Smile


EDIT:
In the skill setup under 'configuration' tab i set the endpoint as AWS Lambda and set the url as the kodi-alex-dev lambda ARN. This did not work when I tested the skill.
If i set the endpoint to HTTPS and the url to the url that ZAPPA gives you when you deploy, then the test works and kodi responds to this request.
But when i try to ask my alexa to do something with kodi it responds with "im not quite sure how to help you with that".


EDIT 2:

[SUCCESS!]
It turns out that i had setup the alexa skill as "English (US)". As i am in the UK, the Echo's here can only handle skills that have the language set to "English (UK)".
Hopefully my sloppy attempt at setting this up will be helpful to anyone else who runs into problems.

Big thanks to the guys who build and maintain this app. Easily the best skill you can add to alexa!

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - rsatina - 2017-06-12

Hello,

I've have successfully setup my kodi skill without a problem, I followed the instruction from https://github.com/m0ngr31/kodi-alexa .

Here's the log from may Alexa App:
The requested application took too long to respond
Kodi
Request Identifier: amzn1.echo-api.request.8b35ce12-678c-4fa2-bd3f-3b007409a2f8
Applications must respond within 10 seconds of the request being sent
Voice feedback
Alexa heard: "ask kodi to play a movie spy"

[I removed the zappa tail dev logs]
What to do to make this work?

Update: I was able to make it work, just realize that I used the my localIP address under kodi.config. Now it is working. I really appreciate all of the guys working for kodi-alexa integration.

RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - jingai - 2017-06-12

Version 2.6.5 has been released. Changes:
  • Speed up matching for titles that do not contain numbers.
  • Support for recommended songs.
  • Add 'recommend something to watch' and 'recommend something to listen to'.
  • Shorten welcome message.
  • Allow (play/listen to/shuffle) (latest/newest) recently added songs.


RE: Amazon Echo skill for Kodi - jaysmith2 - 2017-06-14

I am hoping someone can help me. I installed this two days ago (using the instructions here: https://www.howtogeek.com/249336/how-to-control-your-kodi-media-center-with-an-amazon-echo/) using AWS to host the code. After installation, everything ran great.

However, I wanted to use a different AWS account so I started from scratch again, and re-installed using the new AWS account to host the code. I followed the instructions start to finish, using the newly released code 2.6.5.

Now it doesn't work. When testing it in the Amazon developer site Service Simulator, all responses come back as "There was an error calling the remote endpoint, which returned HTTP 500 : Internal Server Error". (When it has that error message - does that mean it cannot connect to my kodi, or that it can't connect with the AWS server?)

I have tried deleting everything on the AWS site, and re-installing from scratch multiple times, all with the same result. I also tried recreating a new skill, as well as going back to the previous version (2.6.4) all with the same result. I have checked the address, port and password in the kodi.config, and they are all correct and I can connect to kodi fine from a browser.

I am thinking it is something very simple that I am overlooking. Can someone please help with suggestions, or how I can further track this problem down?

I would greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide.

Thanks!

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