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dmhacker / alexa-youtube-skill

Allows Alexa to play audio from YouTube videos
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Stop/pause/resume playback #45

Open drizzt09 opened 6 years ago

drizzt09 commented 6 years ago

I have successfully set it up and its finding and playing the songs requested. "Alexa, Ask Youtube to play artist title"

However during playback if i say any of these: Alexa, stop Alexa, ask Youtube to stop Alexa, ask Youtube to pause

She always responds with: "You are not playing anything currently"

Also on a side note... If i want o switch to my own Heroku its only the URL i have to change in the AWS Lambda index.js? // Set Heroku URL var heroku = process.env.HEROKU_APP_URL || "https://**********.herokuapp.com";

Nothing else requires changing?

Manav-Seth commented 6 years ago

hmm, Alexa, ask Youtube to stop works for me.

Manav-Seth commented 6 years ago

But I am puzzled why Alexa stop does not work? It most likely has to do with shouldEndSession flag not being set?

drizzt09 commented 6 years ago

So are there logs I can capture to help find out why

dmhacker commented 6 years ago

Hmm, from my testing, resume/pause works as intended. Stop not working is a known issue; you need to say cancel instead for unknown reasons.

As for changing the Heroku URL, just set the HEROKU_APP_URL environment variable in your Lambda server.

jarobar435 commented 5 years ago

I just done your Setup Process tutorial recently and also got the problem with pause/stop/resume commands. I am able to use commands "Alexa pause" and then "Alexa resume" for once each track. Then everything goes wrong ("You are not playing anything currently"...) - I have no control over the playback anymore - can't pause or stop it anyway. So literally that means I have to listen to it till very end or unplug my Echo Dot. So it seems to be the problem with "resume" not setting some kind of flag/boolean. If you need any detailed feedback - I'm at your service.

(If you're wondering whether I tried the full version "Alexa ask YouTube to pause/resume" then yes, I did - problem still occures)

dmhacker commented 5 years ago

Yeah, that functionality is a bit buggy; I'm still working out some of the kinks. Try saying "cancel" rather than "pause" or "stop" to completely shutdown the skill if things get out of hand. Let me know if that helps.