Announce notify feature doesn't work

[h4nc]

The new notify tts feature doesn’t work for me.

I tried it in the dev tools and as a script. I also added notify to my config and notify.alexa_media shows up in the services.

My script looks like this:

test_tts:
  sequence:
    - service: notify.alexa_media
      data:
        target: media_player.myechodevice
        message: "Test"
        data:
          type: tts

It doesn’t work in both cases devtool or script. Of course I used this format in the dev tools:

{
"message":"test",
"data":{"type":"tts"},
"target":["group.alexa", "Guest Room", "media_player.kitchen", "serialNumber"]
}

I don’t get an errror.

This is what I get in the logs when I trigger the script above:

2019-03-12 18:40:34 INFO (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Message: Test, kwargs: {'target': ['media_player.echo_dot_1'], 'data': OrderedDict([('type', 'tts')])}
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Testing item: media_player.echo_dot_1 against (Echo Dot 2, ***, media_player.echo_dot_2)
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Filtering out: media_player.echo_dot_1
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Testing item: media_player.echo_dot_1 against (Echo Dot 3, ***, media_player.echo_dot_3)
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Filtering out: media_player.echo_dot_1
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Testing item: media_player.echo_dot_1 against (Echo Dot 1, ***, media_player.echo_dot_1)
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Converting: media_player.echo_dot_1 to (entities): <Entity Echo Dot 1: standby>
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Testing item: media_player.echo_dot_1 against (This Device, ***, media_player.this_device)
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Filtering out: media_player.echo_dot_1
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Testing item: <Entity Echo Dot 1: standby> against (Echo Dot 2, ***, media_player.echo_dot_2)
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Filtering out: <Entity Echo Dot 1: standby>
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Testing item: <Entity Echo Dot 1: standby> against (Echo Dot 3, ***, media_player.echo_dot_3)
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Filtering out: <Entity Echo Dot 1: standby>
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Testing item: <Entity Echo Dot 1: standby> against (Echo Dot 1, ***, media_player.echo_dot_1)
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Filtering out: <Entity Echo Dot 1: standby>
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Testing item: <Entity Echo Dot 1: standby> against (This Device, ***, media_player.this_device)
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Filtering out: <Entity Echo Dot 1: standby>
2019-03-12 18:40:34 DEBUG (SyncWorker_15) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] TTS entities: []

[h4nc]

I solved it. I did this:

• delete the alexa_media folder in custom_comp..
• commented out notify and alexa_media in my config
• restart ha
• download newest version from github and copied the files to custom_comp folder
• commented in notify and alexa_media in my config

I want to note that i uses custom updater to update from 1.1.0 too 1.2.0. So maybe the issue came from that update, so I will leave that open for @alandtse to see this.

I looked in the logs again and now TTS entities: [] is not empty any more. It is filled with the entity name of the last called device as expected.

[juan11perez]

this works

test_tts:
  sequence:
    - service: notify.alexa_media
      data:
        target: media_player.myechodevice
        message: "Test"
        data:
          type: tts

but this (announce) doesnt

test_tts:
  sequence:
    - service: notify.alexa_media
      data:
        target: media_player.myechodevice
        message: "Test"
        data:
          type: announce
          method: all

[h4nc]

I don’t know why it doesn’t work for you but I can tell you that I have the second example running on my ha and it works.

[juan11perez]

tts works, but announce doesn't.
Your example is with tts

[alandtse]

@h4nc There was a small period of time where I had a bad copy of notify.py in the repo which would've resulted in the TTS entities: [] issue. I had assumed no one downloaded it since it was like only 20 minutes as I finalized the release. Your redownload probably got the correct version.

@juan11perez Please try replacing the notify.py. The way you can tell if you have the bad version is if this line is missing alexa by itself.

Good version:

                if item in (alexa, alexa.name, alexa.unique_id,
                            alexa.entity_id):

Bad version:

                if item in (alexa.name, alexa.unique_id, alexa.entity_id):

If it still doesn't work, I'll need some debugging info for custom_components.alexa_media.notify to understand why it's breaking for you.

[alandtse]

Note, I figured out the issue for Announce. Working on a fix.

[h4nc]

@juan11perez i meant your second example, announce works for me. Tested it.

[krissen]

(Apologies if double-posting. I thought I just wrote this as a reply to [this or another] issue, but now I can't find it anywhere.)

Experiencing the same issues as reported by @juan11perez above.

That is, type: announce stopped working, but type: tts does work.

Works:

{ "message": "test", "data": { "type": "tts", "method": "all" }, "target": "Sonos One" }

Does not work:

{ "message": "test", "data": { "type": "announce", "method": "all" }, "target": "Sonos One" }

Communication is enabled on the Alexa device(s).

Was working on alexa_media 1.3.*. Stopped working when I upgraded to 1.4.1.