Alexa text to speech Topic is solved

[freijn]

Frank,

I just use the well-known

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LANGUAGE="en-US"
AMAZON='amazon.co.uk'
ALEXA='alexa.amazon.co.uk'

The rocket science is not in those settings but in using the cookies.txt plugin to create the cookie in Firefox run locally on the same machine as the script. As mentioned, running Firefox on a different machine and capturing that cookie didn't work for me.

I never had the cookie issue.. All was accepted but no voice was heard from Alexa. Only then when I moved to DE it started to work.

Can I ask? Where was your Alexa born? ( where did you buy it ) ?
Could that be the problem?

[philchillbill]

I have 3 Germans, 1 UK and 1 US and all work on UK settings. Never tried anything else.


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[philchillbill]

For those having issues with this script, it may be worthwhile restoring your Echo to factory settings and retrying. When I originally had just 2 echo dots and wasn't sure what rooms I'd put them in, I called them White and Black after their physical colours to distinguish. Later when I added another Dot, a Show and a Spot, I renamed and all devices now have a room name. The thing is, for drop-in purposes, I cannot for the life of me get Alexa to use the new names - I have to still say White and Black as drop-in names. There's clearly an Amazon bug somewhere that keeps some old things persistent. Resetting to factory defaults gives a clean slate to start over and that might help people with weird anomalies here too.

[EdddieN]

mmm... need to try this!

[nono212]

What you have done Guys is great ...
I want to implement that home but I am using domoticz on synology
I do not that that qj is available ... any idea of a tutorial for synology

[nono212]

Great Jobs guys
I have a script that notify me when to taking out the trash.
I used email as notification but with your contribution I will asks Alexa to warn me but what happens If I am not there when Alexa say it ...
So Alexa will say it every half hour Is there a way to acknowledge the message so Alexa stops the notification

[philchillbill]

I do not that that jq is available ... any idea of a tutorial for synology

You can run a remote script on an rpi from your synology using ssh keys and remote execution. I explained how to do this in the wiki for Logitech Media Server. Same principle if you understand how it works. So buy an rpi-zero for a few €, put the Alexa script on it and launch it when you need it from your synology.


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[philchillbill]

So Alexa will say it every half hour Is there a way to acknowledge the message so Alexa stops the notification

Tell Alexa to turn off a switch (via e.g Habridge), where that switch is checked before an announcement is made...


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[heggink]

the DE (non cookie) approach stopped working for me today . Need to go down the cookie route.

[freijn]

Is that the reason Alexa is sick? "Sorry having toubles, please try again later" Is what she say during an event.

[heggink]

No. The script borked indicating that a caption may be used.

[freijn]

@ Phil

changed to the US amazon. Having the same issue again. No voice on Alexa...

This is what the script produces....

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pi@raspberrypi:~/domoticz/scripts $ sudo ./alexa_remote_control.sh -d Office  -e speak:'ATTENTION PLEASE ! ,I like to inform you the washingmachine has finished its wairkje '
sending cmd:speak:ATTENTION PLEASE ! ,I like to inform you the washingmachine has finished its wairkje  to dev:Office type:A3S5BH2HU6 serial:G090LF107212 customerid:A3MOWYBUE3
Sequence command: Alexa.Speak
HTTP/1.1 0 x-amzn-RequestId: ce9bb1ad-c1c8-11e8-8ff1-a31f9459
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://alexa.amazon.com
Content-Encoding: deflate
Vary: Origin
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: x-amzn-dat-gui-client-upgrade,X-Amzn-Error,loginUrl,X-Amzn-RequestId,x-amzn-alt-domain,Date,Location
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:14:42 GMT
Connection: close

[heggink]

For me it works using the cookie. I switched back to the UK instance.

[freijn]

AAaahahhh YESSSSS Cookies monster has arrived.

After playing again with the cookie ( deleting and recreating it again ) it is now working from the US amazon....

Really happy now (again)

THanks !!! Frank

[heggink]

Yay!

[philchillbill]

Seems like the cookie expires in about 48 hours though...

[heggink]

That's pretty shitty then.

[Hesmink]

the DE (non cookie) approach stopped working for me today . Need to go down the cookie route.

Still working for me.

[salopette]

with me since yesterday, no function.
Does anyone know advice?

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pi@raspberrypi:~/domoticz/scripts $ sudo ./alexa_remote_control.sh -d ALL -e speak:'Put your text to announce here'
cookie does not exist. logging in ...
ERROR: Amazon Login was unsuccessful. Possibly you get a captcha login screen.
 Try logging in to https://alexa.amazon.de with your browser. In your browser
 make sure to have all Amazon related cookies deleted and Javascript disabled!

 (For more information have a look at /tmp/.alexa.login)
pi@raspberrypi:~/domoticz/scripts $

PS..(/tmp/.alexa.login) does not exist with me

[freijn]

Go 1 page back and find the post starting "Got it ! And all with UK settings."

That helped me getting it working again..