2017-03-04, 16:36
Sorry guys, I searched for hours and the search does not work very well on this thread. I put in an error code and it spits out pages that do not have that quoted text on them making my searches about worthless so I read read and tried tried. Flippant responses like well you have to run 2 servers really offer no help when you cannot figure out how to do that.
I got everything up and running on one device. I had about an hour of problems because the website format doesn't do any kind of error check to see http so I had http://http://whatevermysite was and was only able to find it thru about an hour of trying to find amazon logs. Seriously, why is amazons panel so darn complex. Why not link everything together, wastes so much time with the back and forth.
Anyway, I tried adding a new user and copying that info into the env file and loading that, but that seems to just wipe out my kodi-alexa-master so I got the other device working, but its one of the other. I cannot figure out if I need to change kodi-alexa master to a different name, run a different script, throw my computer out and move to an area with no tv, etc etc etc,. I can get it to work on one device or the other, what am i doing wrong and how do i correct it.
Also some helpful hints that should be on the front page (since search is terribe on this thread for some reason) in bigbold letters it should say do not use python 3.5. I tried for an hour and then saw the 2.7.Two websites I saw said you need to duplicate to run on a second device, but offer no instructions on how to do that and have them both work. I will gladly write up a better guide for how to do this on win 10 with firetvs and raspberry pis, but I need help to figure out how to do it. Again I spent hours and I searched. I had lne failures and such that normally youcan search on and find what they are, for some reason, this thread brought up none of them. It is like google was puporsefully trying to screw me.
It makes no sense to me that if I have three pis running the same instruction set, to have to input all the sources and intents and triggers and all that and not be able to call the same code and apply it out at whatever machine it should go to. That's how I would have wrote this 20 years ago so you don't have so many places to make a mistake or 4 redundant calls of the same action. Is that only an amazon thing or is the world moving that way. I tried doing the same thing with my tivo and it was similarly crazy. If you have 2 tivos, you need 2 servers? What not decide for tivo one goto this address for tivo 2 goto that address. I have 5 kodi boxes. So to do this I have to duplicate the same information 5 times on 5 different servers (thought they are small)
I have a remote control for the tivo that can control 4 tivos, its written in py and works excellent. I understand a bit more complexity because you have to have tthe longer utterances file to try and anticpate, but I am baffled why the response cannot just be piped to the right kodi box saving everyone lots of cut and past and hassle.
Any help is greatly appreciated, I know its something minor but I don't get it. As an aside, why can't we just have an appliance that does everything, and call those same protocols from that applicance to shoot the info to whichever boxwe are tryign to accesss. Especially if you have a shared database, it seems so muchbetter an easier way to code, but it seems amazon style, the process is way complex to do anything Extremely frustrating there is not on portal that you can do it all on with error checking. Their workflow and webdesigners need a boot to the head. Its like 5 pages of websites or more to do things that a simple python program can do in dos easy. Makes no sense, but I am not a programmer.
Any help greatly apprecieated. I was so excited when I finally got the first one to work, I stayed up late to get the second one online. Of course, that resulted in me tellling the bedroom one to pause and the living room pauses while the bedroom pretends I dont exist. Change the env fire and the bedroom perks up but the living room doesn't work. Nutso Please don't take this negatively, I have great respect and am exicted about how well this seems to work, but is not easy at all to set up.
I got everything up and running on one device. I had about an hour of problems because the website format doesn't do any kind of error check to see http so I had http://http://whatevermysite was and was only able to find it thru about an hour of trying to find amazon logs. Seriously, why is amazons panel so darn complex. Why not link everything together, wastes so much time with the back and forth.
Anyway, I tried adding a new user and copying that info into the env file and loading that, but that seems to just wipe out my kodi-alexa-master so I got the other device working, but its one of the other. I cannot figure out if I need to change kodi-alexa master to a different name, run a different script, throw my computer out and move to an area with no tv, etc etc etc,. I can get it to work on one device or the other, what am i doing wrong and how do i correct it.
Also some helpful hints that should be on the front page (since search is terribe on this thread for some reason) in bigbold letters it should say do not use python 3.5. I tried for an hour and then saw the 2.7.Two websites I saw said you need to duplicate to run on a second device, but offer no instructions on how to do that and have them both work. I will gladly write up a better guide for how to do this on win 10 with firetvs and raspberry pis, but I need help to figure out how to do it. Again I spent hours and I searched. I had lne failures and such that normally youcan search on and find what they are, for some reason, this thread brought up none of them. It is like google was puporsefully trying to screw me.
It makes no sense to me that if I have three pis running the same instruction set, to have to input all the sources and intents and triggers and all that and not be able to call the same code and apply it out at whatever machine it should go to. That's how I would have wrote this 20 years ago so you don't have so many places to make a mistake or 4 redundant calls of the same action. Is that only an amazon thing or is the world moving that way. I tried doing the same thing with my tivo and it was similarly crazy. If you have 2 tivos, you need 2 servers? What not decide for tivo one goto this address for tivo 2 goto that address. I have 5 kodi boxes. So to do this I have to duplicate the same information 5 times on 5 different servers (thought they are small)
I have a remote control for the tivo that can control 4 tivos, its written in py and works excellent. I understand a bit more complexity because you have to have tthe longer utterances file to try and anticpate, but I am baffled why the response cannot just be piped to the right kodi box saving everyone lots of cut and past and hassle.
Any help is greatly appreciated, I know its something minor but I don't get it. As an aside, why can't we just have an appliance that does everything, and call those same protocols from that applicance to shoot the info to whichever boxwe are tryign to accesss. Especially if you have a shared database, it seems so muchbetter an easier way to code, but it seems amazon style, the process is way complex to do anything Extremely frustrating there is not on portal that you can do it all on with error checking. Their workflow and webdesigners need a boot to the head. Its like 5 pages of websites or more to do things that a simple python program can do in dos easy. Makes no sense, but I am not a programmer.
Any help greatly apprecieated. I was so excited when I finally got the first one to work, I stayed up late to get the second one online. Of course, that resulted in me tellling the bedroom one to pause and the living room pauses while the bedroom pretends I dont exist. Change the env fire and the bedroom perks up but the living room doesn't work. Nutso Please don't take this negatively, I have great respect and am exicted about how well this seems to work, but is not easy at all to set up.
