alandtse / alexa_media_player

This is a custom component to allow control of Amazon Alexa devices in Home Assistant using the unofficial Alexa API.
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Missing Echo Dot in media player #2242

Closed Knocks83 closed 4 months ago

Knocks83 commented 4 months ago

Describe the bug When I go to the Media tab, if I try clicking on the available players, I cannot see the Echo Dots I have in the available devices

To Reproduce

  1. Open the media tab
  2. Click on the available devices

Expected behavior My two Echo Dots should appear (I guess) in the devices list

Screenshots image

System details

Additional context I installed the addon using HACS and it otherwise works fine, also I tried using a script that just plays a song (which I admit I just found somewhere) and I can play music just fine:

data:
  entity_id: media_player.echo_dot_camera
  media_content_id: Radio Lattemiele
  media_content_type: TUNEIN
service: media_player.play_media

By doing that, if I also add to the dashboard my Echo Dot, I can see what I am playing just fine: image

Is this actually supported? If not, is this feature even doable?

alandtse commented 4 months ago

No. Alexa media players cannot play random media as expected by HA so they shouldn't appear in this list. Alexa is limited to only playing Amazon cloud content so this would just confuse users who try to play local media.