Posts: 349
Joined: Feb 2015
Reputation:
1
jingai,
The skill was working fine for about a week now the last week or so everytime I try to use it I'm getting the response from Alexa that "The skill is taking too long to respond". Do you have any idea which part of the skill setup this might be related to?
Cheers
Posts: 65
Joined: Apr 2013
Reputation:
0
I used to get that when using heroku version but it still played. It is because heroku sleeps after 30 minutes of inactivity. All other uses after (unless it slept again) worked without the error message.
Using kaffeine solved this issue as it sends a ping to heroku after 30 minutes to keep it from sleeping.
Posts: 65
Joined: Apr 2013
Reputation:
0
Have you added the movie you are searching for to your kodi library?
Can't find what's not there.
Posts: 48
Joined: Jan 2014
Reputation:
0
ah!! Thank you!! You just helped me solve the issue. My issue was the skill was not playing any movies period...
I was trying both options
"Alexa ask Kodi to play a random movie"
"Alexa ask Kodi to play the movie Blade Runner".... The issue here was the movie name is Blade Runner 2049 while I only was saying Blade Runner.
After reading your reply I tried again with a different movie name and it started playing. Miraculously the skill now also plays any random movie. Not sure what happened exactly there but am glad its working.
Thanks again for the reply back.
One follow-up question...
If I add new movies to my library do I have update it in the Movies Slot on the Amazon developer site?
Thanks,
HI.
Posts: 65
Joined: Apr 2013
Reputation:
0
No just say "alexa ask kodi to update library" when it's done "alexa ask kodi to play <new movie name>"
Posts: 48
Joined: Jan 2014
Reputation:
0
perfect! Thanks once again.
Posts: 1
Joined: Jan 2018
Reputation:
0
I apologize if this question has been asked or this issue is in here. I searched as much as I could. As far as I can tell, I've installed from the instructions in the Readme.md. Everything has been installed in the command prompt and I believe I have the AWS and Amazon Developer set up properly. When I go to ask Kodi to open a movie or music it doesn't seem to be connecting. I'll post the response I get from the "Service Response" in the Developer testing. I have the skill enabled on my echo, but I'm also having no luck in actually getting the echo to do anything. The echo says essentially the same thing as the Service Response.
{
"version": "1.0",
"response": {
"outputSpeech": {
"text": "Could not find all the connection information I need. Please check your kodi.config file",
"type": "PlainText"
},
"card": {
"content": "Could not find all the connection information I need. Please check your kodi.config file",
"title": "Invalid configuration"
},
"speechletResponse": {
"outputSpeech": {
"text": "Could not find all the connection information I need. Please check your kodi.config file"
},
"card": {
"content": "Could not find all the connection information I need. Please check your kodi.config file",
"title": "Invalid configuration"
},
"shouldEndSession": true
}
},
"sessionAttributes": {}
}
I appreciate the time put in to troubleshooting and developing this. Thanks for you help.
Posts: 140
Joined: Feb 2015
Reputation:
6
It is giving you a bit of a clue, have you checked your Kodi.config file?
Posts: 65
Joined: Apr 2013
Reputation:
0
Android path: Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata/kodi.config
Chances are if an issue in kodi.config it's either you don't have your movies, music, TV setup in the kodi library or you don't have kodi http setup and accessible through the firewall/router
Posts: 396
Joined: Sep 2008
Reputation:
0
First off, great work with this, got this running in a couple of hours, great instructions.
I am unable to find the utterance to open / navigate to a specific tv show.
ask kodi to open top gear -> want it to open the top gear tv show and list all the seaons
ask kodi to open top gear season three -> want it to open the top gear tv show and list all the episodes for season three
before i start mucking about to add this functions wanted to see if this already exists. if so what I am I doing wrong?
Posts: 396
Joined: Sep 2008
Reputation:
0
Well the Global Search Addon is able to Search and Open a specific TV Show no problem.
For example. with your skills code.
Ask Kodi to Search for Top Gear,
Ask Kodi to Select works
Also I know that
videodb://tvshows/titles/2/
if you Navigate to (2) in my case is top gear. it will open the correct screen. I will try and work this out and send a PR. I do have some questions about the skills code? what is the forum to ask some questions so I am quickly understand the alexa skill code.
Posts: 2,437
Joined: Mar 2010
Reputation:
50
jingai
Skilled Skinner
Posts: 2,437
Slack would be best. I'm not available this weekend but m0ngr31 is usually there too.