[bill_orange]

Woohoo! I finally got Alexa working by going back down to Python 2.7 and re-deploying! Thanks all for your hard work on this, it is really excellent in action! Has anyone seen the announcement for Alexa on Plex? They have a pretty nice implementation with suggestion logic (by genre? start a new show? Watch the next episode of x?) that would be fun to implement. Would that all be done in utterances?

After seeing the announcement for Alex on Plex, I tried it. I was not impressed. Here are the pros and cons:

Pros;

Excellent speech recognition.

Good set of utterances.

Large user base and wide acceptance.

Good documentation.

Cons:

Appallingly slow. I loaded the server on a PI3 and it ran like molasses. In two hours it had not scanned in all the "A"s in my library. Kodi scans the whole library in 45 min.

They want money. You need a paid subscription for the client on the Raspberry Pi 3 to be fully functional. There are lots of restrictions unless you send money.

Speech integration only works on certain clients. It will not work on my Samsung TV.

In summary, It took me the better part of a morning to get all the permissions issues resolved on the server so the library could start scanning. Then I discovered that without sending money the PI client would not work with speech integration, The TV client would not support Alexa at all. By dinner, I could stream most of the "A"s to my phone!

I uninstalled it and gave up. I did learn a bit about Linux permissions, however.