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aldadic / home-assistant-on-echo-show

This Alexa skill adds a voice command to open Lovelace dashboards on the Echo Show in the built-in Silk browser.
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URL cannot be opened on echo #3

Open JoernBerkefeld opened 1 year ago

JoernBerkefeld commented 1 year ago

hi there, setting up the skill worked, it's opening silk with the right url - but then it's stuck telling me the website cannot be reached. any thoughts on what im doing wrong?

I do not have the encrypt/duck setup done yet -> my HA cannot be reached from the outside as of now. Could that have an influence on this?

JoernBerkefeld commented 1 year ago

i noticed that using "homeassistant/" works while "homeassistant.local/" does not - maybe a clue?

aldadic commented 1 year ago

I had a similar problem when using homeassistant.local as URL. This is not a problem with the skill, but rather a problem with the way the Echo Show resolves this URL. I have no issues when I use the local IP address of my Home Assistant instance (e.g. 192.168.0.XXX:8123). I thought that is likely an issue with my network, but since this seems to be a general problem, I will probably mention this in the instructions.

Jazzkeller commented 1 year ago

Same problem here. The skills works ok, but Silk won't resolve the URL. When I change the URL to the ip address of my HA, I have to enter user & password manually. Any idea how to solve that?

aldadic commented 1 year ago

As I already said: There is nothing I can do if the Silk browser doesn't resolve a URL, because that problem isn't related to the skill, but rather to the device itself or your local network. However, from your comment it seems like the skill is working fine. Of course you will need to enter the username and password to sign in, because this skill literally just opens Home Assistant in the Silk browser. Like in any other browser, you will need to sign in to access Home Assistant. If you don't want to do this every time you open the skill (which is probably what you want), you need to tick the "Keep me signed in" checkbox (like in any other browser).

cfurini commented 11 months ago

I had a similar problem when using homeassistant.local as URL. This is not a problem with the skill, but rather a problem with the way the Echo Show resolves this URL. I have no issues when I use the local IP address of my Home Assistant instance (e.g. 192.168.0.XXX:8123). I thought that is likely an issue with my network, but since this seems to be a general problem, I will probably mention this in the instructions.

Just had the same issue and I fixed changing the code to my Home Assistant IP.